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Using every spare minute I can find

I am writing these blogs whenever I can find a minute here and there. People have asked how I find time to write daily, or when they have a FT job, or kids, on and on. So I am currently the advice I always give – find every spare minute you can.

That. That is how you write daily. For me though it is these blogs, not books. I miss writing about my characters, I miss offering the advice I do in them, but most days I get exhausted and just go meh. I’ll spend those 5 minutes relaxing, crocheting,...

Louis is the epitome of

Those guys. This may offend folks with discussing this, or it may straight up make them wanna go on the defensive, but others will nod and go yup. I know him. I know that guy.

Note – please do remember this is a fictional character I’m speaking on. Most of my blogs are about my characters. I simply use them as inspiration and go from there. So this is not about a specific person, it’s about my character first. Most of ya’ll are intelligent enough to understand this, but I’ll still disclaimer ...

On final read through

“Technically” I started the final read through with Fury of a Queen last Friday, but since I only did a few pages, it’s a waste to consider that as a start. Working on the paper form of War of the Lycaen, and having this as a final series, I am trying to go back and forth constantly between the books (that includes Discovery of an Enchantress) to ensure all is cohesive. Not just cohesive, but I keep thinking of details to add, and switcheroos to do. I want to be sure that as I get each of these ...

Random exercise – author at play

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AUTHOR AT PLAY – Practice, exercise or play. I take an image and I simply write the words that come. No editing, no care in the world. Enjoy, continue it if you like, but please do not critique.

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The land lay before them. As far as the eye could see. They stood at a place that allowed them to take it all in. With a deep breath in, Meredith Montgomery, released all of the stress along the breeze of the beautiful day. A day filled with promises. A day of glorious blue...

All DMDU Chapters are up

At least in terms of the books that have been published. I’m going to list all of the books and the chapters that I have up on the Dark Moon Dynasty Universe website.

Soon I’ll begin to work through and share character profiles, Mila’s journal posts, and whatever else I have previously posted. I sent most of the previously published posts/articles on that site to the draft bin so that I could release them as new now that the site is public, and live. So I have plenty of those to edit and rep...

DMDU site is up and running

If you’ve missed the notices I’ve posted on social media, or other then I am also going to post this here.

I have all the first chapters ready to publish from the world so those will slowly trickle out in the next month or so. Probably do one every few days. They’re already up on this site, I just don’t want to overwhelm anyone who happens to subscribe right now on the DMDU site.

There are plenty of posts to come too. Things already written that I turned into draft form when I bo...

Two different companies, two different proofs

Thought I would take pictures and show the differences in the companies, for anyone thinking of doing POD (Print on Demand), if they use Amazon for print books (they implement the company that CreateSpace used to use from what I’ve read – if they’ve updated that, lemme know), or Draft2Digital.

I haven’t used Draft2Digital before, despite being a part of their beta because it took much longer to get the author proofs, or the email that said the proof was ready to send away for. Since it’s sti...

Please ignore this

I am just testing out an auto send feature with a new newsletter system. I have to post a blog for it to send on so I’ll see how it works, if it works. I may use it on another site.

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Prepping myself for the next book

Today, maybe tomorrow too, depending on how long it takes me to write up the notes, I am prepping to start my next project.

I appreciate those who offered their thoughts on the title over on Facebook and my other social platforms. And those who helped me narrow down. The final title got a little adjustment in how I wrote it to really emphasize the aspects to the story, so it’s not as simple as it seems at first glance.

The final choice ended up being Guardians of The Void. You’ll note tha...

Finished Secrets Below Gargoyle Cavern

I finished writing Secrets Below Gargoyle Cavern last Friday. So this is the week that I decide what I want to write next, outline it, and try to stir up ideas on where the story can go, what I would like to see, characters, etc.

The one I’m working on now, I posted a poll over on my socials that you can help with as well. Just tell me which title jumps out at you. If you are struggling between two, just gimme both of those.

1 – The Golden Guard

2 – The Divide

3 – Hidden in the Sky...