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When Words Collide – Online 2020

So I’m not sure when I’m going to be around for WWC online, because I’m on nights s so I need to rest some time. Yeah yeah, ‘Sometimes you go sometimes you don’t!’ I wasn’t planning on this year because one of the guys in my station has major seniority and he always takes time off in August. The rotation has to really work out or all I get are nights off, and I could go on abut scheduling and how I never get the stats I want, but it’ll sound like kvetching. I don’t mind working through the pande...

Focus

Don’t you love memes?

So despite or maybe perhaps because of quarantine, my niece is writing a book and now she’s told me that she has another idea for a different book. She tells me she’s writing a page a day (sort of) and is torn between what idea she’d like to do.

I’m encouraging her with both projects. That way if one’s feeling dry, she’ll have something else to dabble with. Maybe one’ll spark and she’ll write a ton, then get tired of it and go back to the other one. Maybe she’ll have so ma...

Summer Holidays and Writing Update

Time flies when you’re on vacation! It wasn’t like the usual where I had the entire block off – I live in an area where I can do On Call from my house, but I’ve also picked up two easy shifts and did a trade to help out a coworker. That being said, I feel like I got a lot accomplished. The first ‘day off’ was pretty much me cleaning my house and getting stuff in order so that I could enjoy the days off, and I’ve been able to keep it mostly clean with maintenance. I’ve been out kayaking at least ...

Get your Subgenre Right: IN SPACE

Yeah yeah this took too long to follow up. It’s nice out and I spent the last three days kayaking, camping, and haven’t had my computer on or done any reading besides audiobooks. OTOH, Monday I made big headway in the current WIP; but I’m anxious because I think this one might be a bit longer than the previous two novels. I guess I’ll have to write it then try to knock it down a bit.

This post is shorter, and I’ve mentioned certain science fiction stories already in Part One. I felt like I shoul...

Get Your Subgenre Right

Now I’ll be the first one to point out that fantasy is an incredibly inclusive genre. Not only can stories with magic realism mean that yes, literature can include fantasy, other genres such as romance or western novels often contain supernatural elements, and if you’re honest about what you’re selling, often times you can find mass appeal to different demographics.

Know what bugs me? Someone rejecting, reviewing, or marketing a novel incorrectly on the basis of getting its classification wrong....

Retconning and Fleshing Out a Universe

So I’ve been working on Book 3 of the Rogue Healer series and after farting around with some tentative titles for the time being I’m going with Titan’s Ascent. Titles are ultimately up to the publisher, and I might change my mind a dozen times before I submit, let alone worry about marketing. I’ve been more than 100k in for almost a month, if I wasn’t only at around 103k here at month end. I’m having my hump problem, which I’ll rant about in another post. It’ll be solved, unlike Chimera, the nov...

How Long Does it Take to Write a Book? It’s Complicated.

So a bunch of my coworkers know I write and some times you chat with people who want to write, or who have been writing something for a while, and they’re not sure what to do with it as it’s always sort of a work in progress. An occurring question I get is, “How long does it take to write a book?”

The reason I say “it’s complicated” isn’t that I’m doing experimental work and having to relearn every time. Even if you have bad days, if you’re consistent, generally speaking you’ll eventually get so...

Dreams of Mariposa (and other titles) on Sale

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I know a bunch of authors and publishers are putting offers out. Each titles on for like, a buck American. Im not sure what else is on the docket, but Champagne dos a bunch of different types of fiction. You can go to their website or go to your favorite online bookseller to grab the above titles. This is I think the third week of rotating titles on sale, so nows not a bad time to give something different a try.

Productivity and Stress, Plus some Self Publishing

I know it seems silly to go six years between books and then hash out a few things all at once. Short answer is, Ive technically been working on my CSS for a while, and I think Im overthinking. I made a short as well as finally putting together Garnet and Silver: A Faerie Tale. Im going to be working on a few more shorts in the next few weeks to ensure Im doing a decent job. Ill announce here as well as on Facebook when theyre available. I know the original plan was around Christmas time, but...

Dreams of Mariposa Tour Week 3 and Winners

Thank you to everyone whos hosted and everyone who commented. Things have gotten busy on my end, and might be that way for some time. Stay positive, love each other, maybe check in on that person who might not be able to help themselves (while maintaining social distancing, ar ar).

Winners are :

Commenter: Liz Hide Digman

Host: Kit and Kabookle

Week Three Round Up:

Kit and Kabookle
Dawns Reading Nook
Long and Short Reviews
Books, Dreams, Life
Gimme the Scoop Reviews