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December 11, 2018
JordanCon! Free Stories! Tribes! (ALL THE THINGS)
Happy December! Just a quick update about a couple things. First, it’s official! I’m a Featured Guest at JordanCon! I’m really excited. You can find me at the very bottom of the list right here! (They’re alphabetizing by first name. If they’d sorted by last name, I’d be just before Faith Hunter! lol) JordanCon runs from 26 April 2019 to 28 April 2019 right here in lovely Atlanta! That’s a great time of year too, because it’s not too hot and not too cold (usually… you can never really be sure...
December 4, 2018
NaNoWriMo Winner!
Wooo! I did it! I won NaNoWriMo! Yeah, it took me the weekend to recouperate enough to write this post, but there it is! Lol (Okay, in truth, my mom in law is also in town, so that’s my excuse!) What is NaNoWriMo? For those who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month happens every November and it is a personal challenge to write 50,000 words (usually on a novel, not always) in 30 days. Kinda crazy, yeah. But a lot of fun and incredibly productive. It’s not always easy. It means writing an av...
October 22, 2018
Quick Review of Black City Saint by Richard A. Knaak
From my Goodreads review: Black City Saint by Richard A. Knaak My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m reading these books because I’m going to be doing a review on Book 3 for a website I contribute to. So I’m plowing through books 1 and 2
October 15, 2018
Official Jivaja Release! Get Your Copy Now!
Today is the big day! Jivaja is officially launched! Woooo!! So you can find links to Amazon and B&N, as well as Goodreads on my website page for Jivaja. Oh, and as a note, I enrolled Jivaja in Kindle Unlimited, so if you’re a bit short on cash right now, but subscribe, please feel free to borrow from KU! This has been a weird book publishing experience, because I wanted to have some advance copies available for Dragon Con (because a million people go there). But that meant I had to upload it...
September 17, 2018
Super exciting news about Jivaja! Cover Reveal! Woo!
I hope you’re enjoying Free Fiction Friday! A couple weeks ago, I posted about the novel’s name change from Soul Cavern to Jivaja. This came about for two reasons. First, the novel has been named Soul Cavern since I completed it for my grad program at Seton Hill University many, many years ago (yes, it’s been done for a long time). But as anyone who knows me knows very well, I suck at titles. Like, I really suck at titles. I get one good title idea a year, if I’m lucky. And I was never able t...
August 13, 2018
News: #FreeFictionFriday Gets a Little Change!
A couple weeks ago, I launched #FreeFictionFriday with my novel Soul Cavern. Go have a peek if you haven’t read it yet!
Con Season on a Budget: Being a Great Volunteer
Welcome to Part 2 of Con Season on a Budget. This post is about being a great volunteer so your favorite con will welcome you back, year after year. If you missed it, be sure to check out Part 1: How to Volunteer at Your Favorite Convention. I also wrote about surviving your first convention in Conventions 101! Okay, so you’ve done all the legwork and gotten a sweet volunteer position at the convention you’ve been wanting to go to for ages! Now what? You definitely want them to like you enoug...
July 31, 2018
Tool Time Tuesday: ProWritingAid
Every other Tuesday, we talk about the different tools available for writers to make life easier (theoretically
July 16, 2018
Announcement: Free Fiction Friday featuring Soul Cavern!
One thing I’m noticing about this entire Indie Publishing thing is that stuff takes longer than I anticipated. Part of that is me — I’m inherently lazy
July 2, 2018
Con Season on a Budget: How to Volunteer at Your Favorite Convention
I’ve decided to republish the series of posts about conventions and convention life that were originally published over at Speculative Chic. This particular post was published on March 9, 2017. You can find the original here! Con season is in full swing! Looking to connect with your spec fic tribe? Conventions are the way to go! If you’ve never been to a con before, they are amazing fun but can be daunting. Check out my Conventions 101, or How Not to Get Killed by Cons post for some info on h...
