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Sold My Soul to the Company Store

Yesterday I got to do a very fun character interview from Phineas Bell, protagonist of Somebody to Love’s point of view for the Kimi-chan Experience. I was surprised by the last question she asked Phin, which was about how a company town in the late 19th, early 20th century worked. I had actually done a […]

Quantity of Success

There have been a whole bunch of really great articles about the capacity for success in self-publishing that exists these days, including this cool one from Yahoo! Finance yesterday. I love hearing about other self-publishing authors who are doing ridiculously well. I love seeing my fellow writers achieve amazing things. My friend Sandra Owens’s new book […]

Is It All A Matter of Luck?

Hugh Howey is one awesome guy. He’s written some fabulous books, compiled some awesome statistics, and has a great blog. He even scored one of the industry’s top agents as a self-published author and has had the film rights for his books optioned. He also happens to be super hot and ridiculously charming, imho. I got […]

A Day of Firsts

Yep! Today is my usual day to blog. And I did blog…just not here. Why? Because today is my first day as a regular contributor on The Blood-Red Pencil blog. I’m over there blogging about firsts, in fact. More than that, one very important first that happened this past weekend. Won’t you come over and […]

“Self”-Publishing is a Misnomer

I was sitting in a workshop at the Romance Writers of America national conference this morning, listening to a panel of very funny, very successful authors, when one of them said something that came at me out of left field and hit me with a flash of insight. I’m not sure if the author in […]

Would You Have Been a Colonist?

Okay, in my newly released novel, Saving Grace, the characters were all on their way to Earth’s first extra-planetary colony when their ship explodes and they have to land (crash) on the nearest habitable planet (or moon in this case). They have to start over from scratch where they are. However, they were almost going […]

Release

Ah! There’s a reason why the day a book is published is called Release Day! It may mark the day that a book is released to the public but to the author it represents a great big exhale and release from the intensity of that final phase of a writing project. Don’t get me wrong. […]

Tiger Writers and Dolphin Writers

There are days when I swear that I’m far too insecure to be a writer. I mean, if there was a World Cup for stressing out about things, I would beat all y’all the way Germany beat Brazil! I may not give off those vibes all the time, but believe me, they’re there. I think […]

From History to the Stars

One week, people! In one week the first TWO books in my Science Fiction series Grace’s Moon will be released! Yep, the epic adventure of stranded colonists trying to build a new civilization on a habitable moon in the middle of nowhere is my first foray out of Romance and into Sci-Fi. Sure, there is […]

Writing Lessons from the Seven Kingdoms, Part Two

Last week I talked about how Game of Thrones is teaching me so much about the craft of writing. I looked closely at how the creation of vibrant, three-dimensional characters has really helped me to get into the story and kept me reading. The reason so many people are upset when George R.R. Martin kills […]