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May 9, 2016
Behind the Scenes – Red Sun Over Mexico
A cover for Melange Books. For this cover we wanted to stick with the same theme as the first book in the series,Red Sun Over Panama. I kept most of the same imagery, including quite a bit of the retouching I’d already done, and inserted an image symbolic of Mexico.
To figure out which image to use, I emailed the author about symbolism relevant in the book. Other than the Japanese Red Sun, pulled from the first cover to give this a historical touch, he mentioned the temples as a landmark. So...
May 6, 2016
Thoughts on Writing – A Blurb for Distant Horizon: Part Two
Last week I did a postaboutwriting a blurb forDistant Horizon, the YA/NA Dystopian novel that my husband and Iwillsoon publish.
After writingthe previous post, then editing the blurb, I came up with three versions that Isaac and I took to the writer’s meeting we attend. The first version was a short blurb in present tense that focused on the world of the novel, but didn’t mention the protagonist. The second was the blurb-ified query letter. The third was a cross between the two.
At the writer...
May 4, 2016
Episode 13: The Test – Part One
The Multiverse Chronicles SEASON ONE:EPISODETHIRTEEN “The Test – Part One”Episode Twelve of The Multiverse Chronicles is now up!
Trish goes about her week at camp, facing trials of textbooks and tack…
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Trish chewed on a granola bar from the mess hall as she crossed the campground. The early morning sky was dark. Cool air whispered through her hair and across her cheeks, helping her wake. The stable tent stood as a dark silhouette on the distant hill, mo...
May 2, 2016
Thoughts on Publishing – Infinitas Publishing Status Report
Well, guess what? It’s time for another Infinitas Publishing status report!
The Shadow War: This is slowly, slowly making progress. I did get a little more editing done. The good news is that this process should go faster now that summer is almost here.
The Multiverse Chronicles: Trials of Blood and SteelWe recently released episode twelve,and we aren’t quite halfway through the season. There’s still a few more end scenes to write for the later episodes, and I’m about one episode away from ha...
April 29, 2016
Thoughts on Writing – Writing A Serial Novel – MVChron Midpoint Evaluation
Now that Isaac and I havereached the midpoint of The Multiverse Chronicles (or what was originally going to be the midpoint), I thought it might be fun to look at what we had planned for this series, and what the current trajectory is.
For those of you who are new to my blog,The Multiverse Chroniclesis a pseudo-steampunk fantasy blog series that my husband and I write. Isaacwrites the rough draft for each episode, which I then edit. We send that draft to a beta-reader, who gives us feedback....
April 27, 2016
Thoughts on Blogging – A Question For My Blog Readers
As we approach summer, (which means Ishouldhave more time to write blog posts), I’ve come up with a question for those of you who read my blog:
What do you like reading on my blog, and what do you want to see more of?
Is there anything you would prefer to see less of?
About a year ago I went from only posting “behind the scenes” content about book covers I had designed, to writing articles on my writing processes and the steps my husband and I were taking in creating our publishing company.
...April 26, 2016
(Reblogged) How to Save Your Twitter Profile from the Algorithm
I don’t often reblog other blogger’s posts very often, but this one has some important information regarding a Twitter algorithm change that may affect how you see posts in your timeline.
(In other words, they’re trying to emulate the Facebook timeline).
It’s an easy fix, but I didn’t realize they had made the change.
On February 5, Buzzfeed reported that Twitter was doing away with their chronological timeline in favor of an algorithmic one. Users would no longer see tweets as the...
April 25, 2016
Thoughts on Writing – A Blurb For Distant Horizon
Isaac and I are preparing to publish our YA/NA science fiction novel,Distant Horizon, and one of the many things that must be completed is a shiny blurb for the back of the book (and the Amazon storefront).
This particular blurb has been through many incarnations, especially seeing as how it started as a query letter (which went through many revisions on Absolute Write’s forums). Of course, the story changed over time, and some of the query letters became obsolete… even when they sounded half...
April 22, 2016
Behind the Scenes – The Rovers
This is a cover for Melange Books. For this cover, the author already had an idea of what image he wanted used for both the front and back. However, the stock image we looked at initially was marked “editorial only,” so that one wasn’t available. However, we did find a similar photograph on the Library of Congress website that didn’t have any known restrictions, in part due to its age.
So, though it was black and white, I retouched the image and filled it in with color, along with sharpening...
April 20, 2016
Episode 12: The Keeper of the Deep
The Multiverse Chronicles Season One:EpisodeTwelve “The Keeper of the Deep”Episode Twelve of The Multiverse Chronicles is now up!
The prince and his bodyguard meet the Keeper of the Deep–an eccentric witch in the middle of a mysterious forest.
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Spots of sunlight danced between the trees as Alia and Alfons made their way through the thick undergrowth of the Deep. A cinnamon-colored rat scurried along the bramble, unhindered and well-ahead of the two human...
