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This Week's Sales - The Magic Below Paris Boxed Set, Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey

Just dropping in to let youall know that two of my series are on sale this week.The Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey individual titles are in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale, and each individual book in the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series (but not the collections) is taking part at 75% off. You can find the titles shown below, here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/byse... addition, the 8-book,

Cover Reveal - Chronicles of a Dark God: Dark God's Demise

The Chronicles of a Dark God trilogy is coming!And Jake at JCaleb Design has created some wonderful covers for it. What's the Trilogy About? When an ancient deity begins to make its presence felt in the city of Kericliff, an unlikely group of heroes rise to meet it: a rejected priest and his barbarian protector, a wizardess and her apprentices in fear of their lives...and a messenger from a

Cover Reveal - Chronicles of a Dark God: Dark God's Rise

The Chronicles of a Dark God trilogy is coming!And Jake at JCaleb Design has created some wonderful covers for it. What's the Trilogy About? When an ancient deity begins to make its presence felt in the city of Kericliff, an unlikely group of heroes rise to meet it: a rejected priest and his barbarian protector, a wizardess and her apprentices in fear of their lives...and a messenger from a

This Year's 11th Release (& 7th Re-Release): 365 Days of Poetry

Today sees the release of the second and final edition of 365 Days of Poetry.What's it About?It is a book of collected verse in various genres and styles.  From dragons to starships to lost colonies and deadlymermaids, this collection of poetry wanders through genres and settings andpoetic forms with happy abandon. It explores worlds and settings and reflectson the way things might have been

Formatting 365 Days of Poetry - The Writer at Work

It's not all launch parties and champagne, or creating worlds and discovering the stories of the characters that live inside them. Sometimes being a writer is actually work - and not terribly exciting work at that. If you enjoyed watching the formatting process for 365 Days of Flash Fiction, then there's more. Today, I'm formatting 365 Days of Poetry and you can watch it here: https://

Words from Day 6 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Undiscovered

Not so many words done, today. There was admin I've been putting off so that I could get a writing habit going. I'm three days into the new habit, and the admin couldn't be put off any longer. Still, I hit the minimum on the work-for-hire, and still wrangled a thousand for the novel, as well as dealing with a goodly chunk of the backlog.Starting Words: 16,081Finishing Words: 17,224Words Written:

Words from Day 5 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Undiscovered

Every day, I wake up and look at the word count, and every day I doubt I can reach my goals. A thousand other things become overpoweringly important the moment I sit down to type, even though I'm happy to start and usually at my happiest when spinning story. My brain skitters from one thing to the next, until I can grab hold of it, and point it in the right direction...and then it settles...and

Words from Day 4 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Undiscovered

Day 4 went much more smoothly, once I'd fleshed out the outline for the middle of the book to more than one line. Granted, it's only a third fleshed out, and there's more story in this section of plot than I anticipated, but it's more than I had...and more story's not necessarily a bad thing. I might already have the bare bones of the ending, but it's the journey the characters take to get there

Words from Day 3 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Undiscovered

I've been neglecting to do these as they come to hand. Wolves three has had a rocky start, but it's starting to smooth out as I write this. Here's the work schedule and excerpt for Day 3 of writing Book 3 of the Lunar Wolves series:Days since last words written: 6Starting Words: 3,350Finishing Words: 7009Words Written: 3,352Other Words:  17,435 words and 4 blog entriesOther Project/Project