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June 29, 2020
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...
May 20, 2020
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...
May 10, 2020
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.
April 29, 2020
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...
March 23, 2020
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
March 18, 2020
Dreams of Mariposa Week 2 Round Up
Were already half way into week three if you missed any, heres the blogs that hosted me last week.
Lisa Haseltons Reviews and Interviews
A big thank you to everyone whos hosted the review and anyone whos been following along trying to win that GC. As said, just tell me what bookstore you want, although right now with everything thats going on online purchasing makes a lot of sense, Ebooks a lot, but if you live in...
March 17, 2020
Covid-19, 2020
Well, that escalated sharply in the past week locally.
Dont get me wrong: Weve all known about Corona Virus for a while. Healthcare worker here weve been screening for those who have traveled internationally. I put off my travel until next month, because my niece and cousin were going on a band trip to Alberta and my aunt and I were planning a trip to Hawaii. Lets say: Thats scrapped. Im not a Trudeau fan, but lets say I support closing up the border and getting our people home.
So basically...
March 10, 2020
February Round Up
Gotta love that I do these well into a week into March.
So my goal was to get Rogue Healer 3 to 90k – long story short is that it’s nowhere near that but it’s not bad, but I honestly didn’t do much with it in February. It’s not that I have articles to write for the book promo, it’s that I’ve been busy with other creative projects. I seem to pick a ‘thing’ and stick with it. That basically means, water color, inking, and sigil. Not so much oils, but I bought a better paint thinner for inside...
March 8, 2020
Week One of Dreams of Mariposa Online Book Tour Roundup
I’ll post another blog in a day or so concerning how I did in February (poorly… but!) So a few years ago I did a few different blog tours and begged reviewers independently to review Tower of Obsidian. I haven’t tried everyone, but I highly recommend Goddess Fish Book Promotions. I think they lean just a little bit towards the romance crowd, but they’re professional and deliver and are decently priced and I’ve had no qualms promoting my fantasy and paranormal horror. Week One is done, but we...
February 15, 2020
How about we support one another?
So there’s a publisher I’m not at all affiliated with who, on her blog really likes to remind us how superior she and her publishing house is. You can guess by my tone how impressed I *really* am.
Read as sour grapes if you desire.
I like to read what other people in the industry have to say, but I don’t like the drama so I try to stay out of it. Recently, this publisher complained and stated many prospective writers are ‘lazy’ and we shouldn’t expect publishers to teach us how to write.
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