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A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal

When I first read about the A to Z Challenge and how the goal was to blog nearly every day for a month, I was like, “Oh, hells no…” I mean, I blog once a month, sometimes twice a month if I’ve got my act together. Blogging nearly every day seemed like a masochistic experiment (and it might still be; ask me about it once it’s all over).

Yet I found the concept interesting, and it got me thinking — if I were to blog every day for each letter of the alphabet, what would I write about?

The Theme

Lis...

The Thirteenth Tower Release

Well, there goes the neighborhood. My very first book, The Thirteenth Tower, has been released! Woohoo! Pretty exciting, but pretty freaky too. People are actually going to read it. I know that’s the whole point of this, and I’m very delighted. But it still just seems so… weird.

Anyway, it’s only the ebook version that’s available right now, and currently it’s only up for sale at Amazon and Google Play. It will probably take a few weeks before the book shows up at all the retailers.

As for the...

Book Review: The Towers

The Towers

Jordan Jeffers

Published November 2013

Book source: Received for free through The Masquerade Crew in exchange for an honest review.

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The Towers is an interesting fantasy tale of a mountainous people and their battle against the Nightmare— a group of nasty creatures that comes around once every seventy years. The ways the people protect themselves against the Nightmare forms a belief system that is essentially a religion.

It’s an interesting story, and I like the questions it brin...

The Thirteenth Tower: Chapter Two

If Mr. Toad had a wild ride of publishing, then I'm pretty sure I've just been on it. Just about everything that could go wrong in trying to get this book out to publication, has. We've had to switch distributors for both the print and electronic version, which resulted in having to readjust the print layout, and delayed the conversion process. That conversion process came with it's own share of bumps in the road. I underestimated just how much work goes into converting text to ebook format,...

A Nitty-Gritty List of Ebook and Print Book Distributors

So this is my world right now: slogging through ebook distributor and print on demand websites to see who has what kind of distribution, how much they charge, and how much they pay. Seems simple enough, but there's quite a few distributors out there, all with different distribution channels, different royalty payout rates, and some that charge for the service. So, to keep things simple I ended up making an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of the info. Then I thought (or actually Anders thought...

The Thirteenth Tower: Chapter One

[dropcap style="font-size: 60px; color: #8f1f1f;"]T[/dropcap]wo-and-a-half years ago I started writing my first novel. That novel is now about to be published. The interior layout and back cover (shown above) are being finalized. After that, it's just a matter of getting the different files in various formats, ready to publish. The electronic version should be ready very soon; the printed copy, however, will take a little longer. I'm not sure if we're going to publish the electronic version f...

Adventures in Bread and Applesauce

Every year around Christmas time I tell myself I’ll make homemade applesauce. See, Swedes like it with their ham, and sometimes I like it on my beet salad sandwiches since, as a vegetarian, I don’t partake of the meaty bits. But as a master of procrastination, I always put it off until the last minute creeps up, which inevitably ends up in us buying a jar of store-bought stuff.

Fortunately this year I was well motivated. I had a bunch of apples in the fridge that were too mushy for me to eat r...

Double Beast Publishing

I’ve been working like crazy on the final edits of my book. The good news is I’m almost done. The bad news is I’m nearing burnout. I’ve read through the manuscript countless times, tweaking this, rewriting that. It’s the grisly part of writing where toeing the line between love and hate is a regularity. But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I’m clinging to it for dear life.

I have also, as I write this, just approved the final version of the cover design. It’s nice to have that...

Book Review: Bloom

Bloom: Or, The Unwritten Memoir of Tennyson Middlebrook

Martin Kee

Published July 2013 by Createspace

Book source: Received for free through LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.

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Bloom is a lovely telling of two seemingly different stories. There’s Tennyson and Lil’it—one a boy/young man whose story takes place in our world; the other a faerie, whose story is set in a different world altogether. It was fun and interesting reading about these two very different characters and wor...

Glow

Here is my short story, written for the Halloween Blog Hop. Like the blog hop, this story is rather experimental in nature. It's written in a voice I've never tried before, and I honestly don't know if I've pulled it off. But, hey, I figure the best way to grow is to try new things, so consider yourself my guinea pig.

A very big "thank you" to everyone who's participated. I've had a lot of fun with this. I hope you have, too.