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September 11, 2020
2020 and a Catch-Up
2020 has been a doozy for many of us. Okay, for ALL of us.
I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been affected negatively in some way or other. Loss of work, loss of health, loss of a family member or friend. Fear. Anxiety. Uncertainty. This is true of the self-employed and those who work at home, too.
Here’s a great, encouraging post by Angela Ackerman at Writers Helping Writers. Please check it out here.
She sure encouraged me!
Anyway, I’m up past 82,000 words on book three of The Goblets...
September 4, 2020
It’s September!
It’s September. How did this happen? Didn’t we just begin June?
On the other hand…
FINALLY! This year is taking FOREVER. Like, can we be to January ’21 already? Sheesh.
Complaining aside, here is a kitty to welcome you into the the season of soups and pumpkins and sweaters and Halloween and gratitude and feasts and…well, coziness (because cats are cozy, too):
It’s Bowie! Isn’t he cute? (For the vision impaired: the image is of my orange and white tabby. He has wide yellow eye...
August 28, 2020
Why The Hobbit Movie/s Disappointed Me
Confession time: I have only seen the first Hobbit movie in its entirety. The rest? I’ve only caught bits and pieces, coming in and out of the room when my mom is watching. The reason? The first movie (can’t recall its subtitle) really bummed me out.
And, as the years have gone by since its release, I’ve mulled over why it bummed me out so much. When I mentioned it on Twitter, I was informed that Peter Jackson was under time constraints and it wasn’t his fault that the movie didn’t meet its f...
August 21, 2020
The ISFP, Pantser and Procrastinator
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
It’s interesting being an ISFP personality type. If you don’t know, ISFP are the initials of the fourth most common Myers-Briggs personality type.
I – Introverted
S – Sensing
F – Feeling
P – Perceiving
Another word for us? The Composer. You can learn more about this personality type here.
While I don’t like to be shoved into a box (who does?), and my personality results are almost always split 50/50 wit...
August 14, 2020
Twitter Contest: $15 Amazon Gift Card Prize
Hey, guys.
I’m running a contest on Twitter at the moment for a $15 Amazon gift card (US only, unless I can send an electronic gift card internationally.) The rules are simple:
Take a photo of a copy of The Goblets Immortal
You don’t have to be in the pic. It doesn’t even have to be your copy; could be a friend’s, could be your library’s. It could even be an e-copy of the book.
Post your pic on Twitter with the hashtag #TGIShelfie
It’s just a cutesy shorthand for “The Goblets Immortal Shelf...
August 7, 2020
Pre-Order Incentives for Holes in the Veil
I’m doing pre-order incentives again, this time for the second book in The Goblets Immortal trilogy: Holes in the Veil. Below is all the information you need to enter.
Who is eligible?
Anyone with a US address who is over the age of 18. You can always have an adult order for you, if you are under-age. (Sorry about the US only thing. International postage rates are MAD.)
What are the incentives?
– A button pin with the last line of The Goblets Immoral poem (“And a curse for the soul who was born ...
July 31, 2020
Bestsellers Lists!
So. I had a fun week! The Goblets Immortal e-book was on sale for 99 cents until this past Sunday, and it made not one but three bestsellers lists. I’ll show you….
It was #5 in Amazon Canada’s Epic Fantasy Kindle Store. Sadly, I didn’t get screenshot when it was that good, but I did manage to get a shot of it when I was #12:
Thank you, Canada! I also was on the same list as J.R.R. Tolkien, which means a lot, because he is the reason I started writing fantasy.
The Goblets Immortal made it onto t...
July 20, 2020
On Sale for 99 Cents
For the next five days, The Goblets Immortal will be on sale from Amazon and Barnes & Noble for 99 cents. Happy Christmas in July!
July 3, 2020
The Professional Editing Process
Well, I should be done with this round of edits by the time this blog posts. The edits were due yesterday, the second of July. Hoping I’m celebrating right now and not requesting more time.
Anyway…
In my career as an author, I’ve worked with maybe six editors so far (well, more if you count short stories…), and the experience has been fairly similar each time. Let’s take a look at what to expect when you’re expecting a polished manuscript.
The content edit is usually the first round I go throug...
June 26, 2020
Status: Hating Conflict
In case you were wondering how my life is going: I forgot to flip my calendar to June. Oops. I’m still in May, I guess. All loss of the sense of the passage of time aside, I’ve been having troubles lately with conflict. I mean, I’m not butting heads with anybody, but the smallest hint of disagreement has me spinning my wheels. This is making copy edits…interesting.
Every time I open that Word document with my editors’ comments, my pulse doubles and I break out in a cold sweat. Am I exaggerating?...
