LearnAsYouGo

Here’s a mid-month spattering of what I’m spitting out!

VELLA. Yes, yes, yes, I decided to venture forward with this, just to try it out. So far, so good. I’m — you’ve guessed it — learning as I go. I have an episode ready to drop on Friday, but I HAVEN’T edited it yet! Which wouldn’t be so bad, except I can’t even GET into the darn thing until it releases on Friday so… if you’re up at midnight EST on Thursday when it’s supposed to release, you’ll catch an extremely unedited version! Wups.

If you don’t know much about Vella, it’s Amazon’s attempt to dig into what other countries are so hyped up about. I almost joined another publishing group last year that produced episodic stories as well, but then Amazon joined in on the fun, I didn’t have time to commit, and here we are, almost a year later.

People publish stories one episode at a time. You use tokens to read the stories, and by signing up, right now anyway, you get 200 tokens for free. The first three episodes/chapters are always free. To help writers get noticed, you can like each episode and follow the story. There are also polls you can vote in — I’m using my polls sort of as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. You can help write my story!

The old adage “write what you know” led to a spark in my mind. That spark translated into a random story about a haunted tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. My Vella is about a college student who is suddenly immersed in ghost stories and spooky coincidences… or are they? Read it here.

When Violet Got Bored‘s cover reveal may be as early as this Friday! Yay! I’m excited to have this one almost under wraps!

And I’ve just begun working on my children’s book special edition for the holidays. As of right now, I can still meet my goals so fingers crossed. It’s a cool idea!

Enjoy the rest of your October, and Happy Samhain!