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June 15, 2020
Artsy Mondays: Photographer Interview with Nahanni McKay
Artsy Mondays
Thanks for joining me for Artsy Mondays! I love sharing the art, illustrations, photos, and more of the creatives who are out in the world making visual work. It’s important to me to lift up other creatives, forming community, and building a place where we can find inspiration.
I’m delighted to welcome photographer Nahanni Mckay to Artsy Mondays!
I hope you enjoy the photographer Q&A. Thanks for reading!
Photographer Int...
June 10, 2020
Writer Wednesdays: Book Review of Incandescent Visions By Lee Hudspeth
Welcome to Writer Wednesdays!
It feels so good to be back on my blog! If you haven’t noticed, I haven’t posted over the last month or so. This was because of a major headache, aka server crash. My wonderfully techy and patient husband, Aaron, has spent so many hours (!!!) moving all my many websites to a new server and finally (finally!!!) everything is working smoothly again. Thank goodness!
I will soon be bac...
May 3, 2020
Virtual Book Tour: Banana Girl Films Book Time Lapse of The 8th Island Trilogy
Virtual Book Tour Fun
The launch of Inside the Sun was a bit of a disaster! The day the book was officially published (April 21, 2020), the server hosting my website crashed. Aka I had no operational site, nowhere to direct people
AND the print version of the book was held up in the warehouse. Distribution of my book to retailers, from the warehouse, was severely delayed. Thank you COVID-19 for another headache....
April 21, 2020
Inside the Sun Book Release Countdown: TODAY IS THE DAY!
0 Days to Go!
TODAY IS PUB DAY! The final book in The 8th Island Trilogy Inside the Sun has arrived!
If you told me five years ago that I would be releasing the third book in a fantasy trilogy in 2020, I wouldnt have believed you.
If you told me a year ago that I would be releasing a book during a world pandemic I would have laughed and shaken my head.
I am sitting in my armchair, writing this blog post, in a little shock and...
April 20, 2020
Inside the Sun Book Release Countdown: 1 Day till Launch + Virtual Book Tour Highlights!
1 Day to Go!
1 days to go till Inside the Sun is released and I need your help!
The importance of Pre-OrdersPre-orders are so important for new books because the rank of the book on the day it is released is calculated by the sales on that date, but ALSO BY ALL THE PRE-SALES. That is a powerful fact. All the pre-sales count for total sales on pub day (the date the book is published).
The sales numbers...
Inside the Sun Book Release Countdown: 2 Days till Launch
2 Days to Go!
Two days 2 days TWO DAYS!!!
I am a little wigged out that my book Inside the Sun will be released in 2 days. Its hard to get my mind around that to be honest. I have so much to do, so little time, blah blah, you know the drill when launching something. Add on to that schooling my kiddos, working multiple jobs from home the list goes on.
I think we all have a lot on our plates these days with the COVID-19 crisis...
Artsy Mondays: Artist Interview with Karen Bishop
Artsy Mondays
Thanks for joining me for Artsy Mondays! Today I am excited to welcome watercolor landscape artist Karen Bishop!
I deeply admire artists like Karen for many reasons. One of those is the ability to sit and paint in nature. I havent been able to do this for more than a decade since having children. It can be challenging to find that unhurried creative head space in nature amidst chaos (aka noisy, fighting kiddos who tend to...
April 18, 2020
Inside the Sun Book Release Countdown: 3 Days till Launch
3 Days to Go!
3 days from now the final book in my 8th Island Trilogy Inside the Sun will be released. Its surreal to say the least.
Today in my book launch countdown, I am sharing a very recent video of the behind-the-scenes leading up to the completion of The 8th Island Trilogy. Watch the video below and please share : )
Click here to visit my blog to read all the countdown posts.
Inside the Sun
Behind-the-Scenes
It can be so...
April 17, 2020
Inside the Sun Book Release Countdown: 4 Days till Launch
4 Days to Go!
4 days. 4 days is nothing! Only a few more sleeps! The final book in my 8th Island Trilogy Inside the Sun is pretty much here! Eek!!! This is more than a launch countdown, its a celebration countdown! YAY!!!
To write and publish a trilogy is a huge undertaking and for me it spans just under a decade (I wrote book one Above the Star in 2012).
I remember my mom giving me a hard time when I was young if I didnt finish...
April 16, 2020
Inside the Sun Book Release Countdown: 5 Days till Launch
5 Days to Go!
5 days from now and the final book in my 8th Island Trilogy Inside the Sun will be released into the world. I can hardly believe it. Especially that I am launching a book during a world-wide pandemic. Nope, had not factored that into my game plan lol. Thank goodness for human resiliency and the ability to adapt!
Click here to read all previous countdown posts from my main blog page.
Inside the Sun
Hybrid Novel...
