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Pearl is live! Now available!

Pearl is now out in the world.

It is available on Amazon.

Nook.

Apple.

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...

Draft2Digital tells me that it's still pending on other platforms,...



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Pearl: An Historical Novella Cover Reveal

Hi everyone!

Pearl: An Historical Novella is super close to being ready to hit the Interwebs. I'll let you know of an exact date when we get there, but I anticipate early next week.

In the...



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Write the Book You Want to Read

Writers, by nature, will give out all kinds of contradictory advice. Show, don't tell. (Huh?! It's a novel, not a movie ...) Write what you know (But I know nothing. Jon Snow.) Write for a market....



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IWSG: June

It's June's IWSG post. Check out the IWSG page to find out more about this wonderful group.

My mind has been going in two different streams the past few days. On the one hand, the novella is coming...



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More Adventures in Formatting

I turned to the Smashwords Style Guide this week to see if ebook formatting would be explained better there. And it was. So, if you ever find yourself in the position of having to format an ebook and...



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Cutting The Bloodline Book Tour: Creating The Future

Hi guys! We have another fantastic guest today--Angeline Trevena, whose book Cutting The Bloodline was released on May 12th.

Cutting the Bloodline is set in Britian, 2052. This is a world where...



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Chrys Fey's Ghost of Death blog tour!

Hey peeps! Today, author Chrys Fey is stopping by to tell us about her new release! Check it out!

Thank you, Michelle, for letting me take over your blog
for the day to talk about my newest short...



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Your Future E-Book: Formatting for Kindle

Update:

I have found an editor and hired her to copyedit Pearl (I need to think of a title, don't I? Ugh).

I had emailed a few self-pubbed writing buddies, asking them where they found their...



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Why So Nitpicky?

Here's a thing I never really understood about fans of books or TV shows...

Some of them get extremely nitpicky. Why? I've never really been a participant in a fandom--more of an observer. I read,...



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IWSG: The Emotional Impact

It's IWSG Wednesday. Time to post our writerly insecurities. 

I received a beta's remarks back on the Pearl novella. Thankfully, she liked it and while there needs to be some clean-up and a few...



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