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March 10, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 10: BOOK NEWS! Introducing World of …
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
Okay, I know you’re only here for the book news and not for a recap of what happened in my tenth year of publishing (which, to be honest, wasn’t all that much 😂). So I’ll leave you with this summary graphic of the things I DID complete in 2021 (free bonus scenes, a few audiobooks, and a compilation of ALLL Creepy Hollow bonus content) and then you can skip to th...
March 9, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 9: The Year That Shall Not Be Named!
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
2020. Yep. THAT year ? The year the world as we know it fell apart (and the year we still haven’t quite recovered from yet).
Because it had been a while since I’d written in the Ridley Kayne world, I reread the first two books at the beginning of 2020, making notes as I went, AND writing some extra scenes from Archer’s point of view. I sent those out to my re...
March 8, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 8: Fairytale Fun
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
In 2019, I once again took a detour I perhaps should have waited a little longer before taking 😂
Instead of finishing Elemental Heir and wrapping up Ridley’s series, another story had begun calling to me, and I really, really wanted to write it …
It was an urban fantasy Cinderella story, with a mob-boss style godmother and wish magic. And even though I had...
March 7, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 7: Creating a New Fantasy World
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
In 2018, I was faced with the exciting opportunity of creating a brand new fantasy world for the first time since the words ‘Creepy Hollow’ had popped into my head in 2011.
And it was a little bit terrifying!
I had known for some months what kind of story I wanted to write, and who the characters were, but it took me a while to settle on exactly what the m...
March 6, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 6: Three Books in One Year: The Completion of Creepy Hollow!
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
2017: the year I completed the Creepy Hollow series! I introduced readers to Emerson, and her story kicked off with Glass Faerie.
My three girls together: Violet, Calla and Emerson!
Leading up to the release of Glass Faerie, I put together the previous six Creepy Hollow books and did a limited-time price promotion of $0.99. One of my goals with...
March 5, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 5: Exploring Side Characters’ Stories
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
Today, March 5th 2022, is TECHNICALLY the exact 10th anniversary of my first release day! Woohoo! 🥳
And now, back to year 5, 2016 …
I was working on the sixth Creepy Hollow book (Calla’s third book), but it required me to look a little closer at one of the secondary characters’ back story, and THAT resulted in me writing a novella: Scarlett.
The original...
March 4, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 4: A Return to Creepy Hollow
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
Back at the end of 2013, when I published The Faerie War and completed Violet’s trilogy, I called that “the end” of Creepy Hollow. But in reality, I had been planning for the continuation of the series since writing the beginning of Violet’s story. (And sharp-eyed readers noticed I’d left a few open threads at the end of The Faerie War 😜) Though I hadn’t figured ...
March 3, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 3: Stepping into my Contemporary Romance Shoes
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
2014 was the year I made some, uh, not so fantastic marketing decisions 😂🙈
Despite the growing success of the Creepy Hollow series, I decided not to capitalize on that by continuing the series immediately (even though I already secretly had plans for how the storyline would continue). I was a little bit creatively burned out on fantasy. I had been reading and...
March 2, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 2: Full-Time Author!
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
2013 was the year I became a full-time author!
But not because I could afford it 😂
I got married at the end of 2012, moved to a new city, tried to find a teaching job … and couldn’t. So I took that as a sign to give my self-publishing career a real go! This was the year I would complete the Creepy Hollow series (which, at that point, I had told my readers w...
March 1, 2022
10 Years of Publishing | Year 1: It Began With Two Words
Ten days of giveaways and traveling down publishing memory lane and … new book news! Scroll to the bottom for the schedule.
10 YEARS
17 NOVELS (plus 2 novellas and multiple shorts)
OVER 300,000 BOOKS SOLD
OVER 1.3 MILLION FREE DOWNLOADS
TO READERS IN 160+ COUNTRIES
😱🤩
Roughly eleven years ago, I set aside the first (very long, and not particularly good 😂) novel I had spent more than a year writing. I decided I would let it sit for a while and write something fun...
