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A Snazzy New Book Trailer!

Hello and thanks for visiting again so soon! This will be a quick post just to let you know that very exciting things are happening around here today.  

First, as you can see, I have a new book trailer for The Cautioner's Tale .  It's pretty snazzy, I think, so I hope you'll take a minute (less, actually) to have a look. It's also posted on my website, so if you haven't been there lately, you should probably visit. I've fancied that up a little, too.
Also, I wanted to share some l...

A Preponderance of Pickles

Hello and thanks for visiting. Once again, I've landed myself in a pickle. For the past couple weeks, I've been wrapping up the layout for The Rescuer's Tale (the second installment of the Mary Morgan's Journal series), and while it sits simmering on the back burner awaiting its final edit (12/1), I've been working on the title page. I have two versions. Here's the first:

Please remember this is NOT the book's cover. (That's a pickle for another time.) This is the interior title page. It's the...

The Mysterious Evolution of Sparse Heckler

Exhibit A: The SketchHello, and thanks for stopping in.

A funny thing happened yesterday while I was working on a character for my upcoming book The Rescuer's Tale (the second book in the Mary Morgan's Journal series). For only (maybe) the third time since I've been working in Photoshop for character development, a character actually turned out almost exactly as I'd originally sketched him! Since this rarely happens, and is as curious a mystery as I've ever known, I wanted to sort of "Big Dea...

Teasers, Twists, and Tales

The Cautioner's TaleHello and thanks for visiting. It's been a couple weeks since I last posted, so in case anyone's wondering, let me report what I've been up to. It's been a very exciting time!

First, I finally got The Cautioner's Tale up for pre-order on Amazon. It looks wonderful and the images are sharp and crisp, so I'm truly happy with it and I think readers will be as well. It's also received a couple more 5* reviews since I last posted, so I know I'm at least headed in the right direc...

Giving Back, Paying Forward

Hello and thanks for stopping by.

Today's will be a quick post to offer a glimpse of some incoming reviews for The Cautioner's Tale . 

As we all know, books and authors do far better with reviews than without. Even bad reviews have been known to help occasionally. So, as authors, we are in constant pursuit of those elusive reviews, and when we get them, I think its wise to be gracious and give back a little of the kindness that was paid forward to us by the reviewers having taken a chance o...

Calling All Cover Lovers!

Hello, and thanks for visiting. Today, I'm asking for a little more help on The Cautioner's Tale . With launch day just over a month away and advance review copies being downloaded as we speak (http://eepurl.com/c4dJ8H), I'm very close to wrapping up work here. But, there's one last thing...well, two, actually...that I would appreciate some opinions on. Both have to do with my back cover:

1. What do you think of the blurb?
2. What's your opinion of the artwork?

I'm open to any and all suggestion...

Ancillary Pawn's Confession

Back again...

So, yesterday, emails went out to my Advance Review Team about what and when to expect their free copies of The Cautioner's Tale . If you happen to be one of these lucky souls and did not receive your email, first check your spam folder for mail from rm@iamrmwilburn.com. If you still don't see it, please let me know either here or on Facebook or my website. OR...

There are still openings on my team if you'd care to participate. You're welcome to contact me directly (as above), or j...

A Time and A Page For All

Hello and thanks for stopping by.

Last week I posted the first four pages of my current work-in-progress, The Cautioner's Tale , and asked a few specific questions about what I might do to improve it. I also shared one of the pictures and the same questions with a couple of Facebook writers' groups, along with a link to last week's post where they could see all four pages. The response was far better than I'd hoped, particularly in the Fiction Writing group. I received many comments, Likes, and...

An Extreme and Absolute Time-Sucker

Hello, and thanks for joining me. I hope you've come to help because I'm in the absolute thick of it!  I've recently been working on the final edits for The Cautioner's Tale , the first book in my Mary Morgan's Journal trilogy. I was fortunate enough to have several wonderfully helpful beta readers give it a test read a few months ago, and I've since incorporated their suggestions along with the notes I made on both the story and the drawings.I think I've mentioned in a previous post that...

Sorting Through the Madness

One of my goals for this blog is to share some insights and artwork with anyone who's interested in my work while, at the same time, sort through all the characters, storylines, and drawings that clutter my train of thought--which is most often a trainwreck, actually. (I hope you remember that RSAS I mentioned in my last post. It's a constant battle!)

Unfortunately, I don't currently have a process for sorting through all this junk in my head, and am at times overwhelmed with the volume of "im...