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January 29, 2018
Indie Author Interview: Hannah Heath
Welcome to another of my famous author interviews! Yes, they really are famous. Just go with me on this.
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Today, I’m interviewing the very talented Hannah Heath, who’s embarking on a very cool writing project this year. She’s releasing a series of short stories called The Terebinth Tree Chronicles, which serve as prequels to her to-be-published novel The Stump of the Terebinth Tree. The first of these stories, “Colors of Fear,” is coming to Amazon and Barnes & Noble (in both ebook and paperba...
January 27, 2018
The Great Book Review Explosion of 2018
In this blog post, I’ll be addressing one of my 2018 thingies. I’m not going to use the word that rhymes with “besoplution,” because using that word basically sabotages goal-setting from the start.
The thingy in question is my blogging schedule, which has been all over the place ever since the day I started blogging. In fact, for all intents and purposes, I have not had a blogging schedule until now. But since I’ve started a regular podcast, I feel the need to bring a little sanity to the res...
January 26, 2018
What’s Your Favorite Beaumont and Beasley Quote?
Good day. I am Malcolm Blackfire, Headmaster of Warrengate Academy of Advanced Magic, internationally-renowned archaeologist, and–most importantly–a dragon.
I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve called you all here today. Just to set your minds at rest, it’s not because I’m hungry.
I mean, I am hungry, but you needn’t worry about that. Really.
I requested the honor of writing this post from Kyle Robert Shultz. He refused, whereupon I devoured him.
Ha ha! A wee bit of humor there. No, I had a su...
January 23, 2018
Download The Tomb of the Sea Witch for FREE!
Exciting news–I have just made The Tomb of the Sea Witch, Book 2 of the Beaumont and Beasley series, available for FREE to all my email subscribers!
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January 22, 2018
Announcing the Fearless Fiction Podcast!
My author platform has now expanded to include podcasts and a YouTube channel. I AM UNSTOPPABLE. TREMBLE BEFORE ME, PATHETIC NON-DRAGONS.
*ahem* Sorry.
I was originally going to call this the KRS Podcast and make it a little more generic about my writing, but I decided to narrow it down and focus on helping authors who are afraid to get their books indie-published. I think this is an important issue that not many other indie-pub podcasts are specifically addressing.
So, welcome to the Fearles...
January 21, 2018
002: A Field Guide to Book Reviews
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In this episode of the Fearless Fiction podcast, we’re going to talk about the Big Bad Wolf–or possibly the Cthulhu–of author fears…book reviews!! (dun-dun-dunnnn…) This show will cover:
The different kinds of book reviews and how to interpret them How to interpret the complete average of our reviews What our target market means for the significance of our reviews[image error]
You can support the podcast on Patreon for as little as $1 a month, and get weekly worksheets pertaining to each episode.
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001: We Have Nothing to Fear But the Eye of the Beholder
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The first episode of the Fearless Fiction weekly podcast is now available! The purpose of this show is to help aspiring authors overcome their creative anxiety and enter the world of indie publishing, and to inspire currently-published authors as well. This episode introduces the themes and philosophy of the podcast, and covers a number of topics, including:
The different aspects of the creative anxiety faced by authors How you may be falling into the trap of perfectionism, even if you thin...January 17, 2018
The 2018 Afterversary Sale!
One year ago today, I published The Beast of Talesend, the first book in the Beaumont and Beasley series. Since then, I’ve published two more B&B books, and I recently bundled all three into a single volume.
And today, in honor of the Afterverse’s first birthday, you can purchase the ebook edition of that volume for just $4.99–50% off the regular price!
Buy Beaumont and Beasley Volume 1 for $4.99!
This is the first-ever Afterversary sale, something which will be an annual event...
January 11, 2018
Beaumont and Beasley: The Ten-Book Plan
I promise, this will be the last time I revise my 2018 writing plans. I think.
No, seriously, I promise. I’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming about my long-term goals for the Afterverse, partly as a response to some issues I’ve been having with my current writing projects. Not only have I solved those problems, but I’ve also come up with a lot more story concepts and an expanded “long game” for my shared universe of stories.
Shall we begin? First off, Beaumont and Beasley Volume 1.
This is...
January 1, 2018
Book Review–Dreamings and Muses by Daley Downing
My first book review of 2018! (And first blog post of 2018, period!) I’m planning to finally pulverize my enormous TBR and use it for a whole bunch of book reviews, so if all goes well, there should be a lot more posts like this in the coming months.
I’ll be honest–much as I love the medium of short stories in general, I read a lot of them that I really don’t like. And usually, the reason I don’t like them is because the author went out of his or her way to make the story dark, depressing, an...
