Tag: writing life

  • May Progress Report

    May Progress Report

    Hey folks, let’s get real for a moment. Indie publishing isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s more like a maybe-you’ll-get-a-fancy-coffee-drink-once-in-a-while scheme. That’s why so many Indie Authors also have a day job (cue the scary music). Well, I don’t have one of those either. I used to. It made things like buying groceries and keeping my car in working order a whole lot easier. I’d like to have one again, but that’s not in the cards at the moment.

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  • April Progress Report

    April Progress Report

    I was supposed to post this on April 1st. Would you believe it’s a long delayed April Fool’s day joke?

     

    Yeah, didn’t think so.

    The truth is I’ve been dealing with my asshole brain. Sorry if that offends anyone, but really that’s that mildest term I can come up with that even comes close to how I feel about it. Clinically, it’s referred to as one or more of the following: depression,

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  • February Progress

    February Progress

    Oh my gosh it’s February already. Here I am still working my way through all the stuff that needs to happen to get New Romance out to all of you. For now that means biting my nails while the beta readers have a go at it. I’m working on the cover design and hope to have a cover reveal soon.

     

    In the meantime, I’m also fretting about how to keep my life together,

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  • 30 Day Character Interview

    30 Day Character Interview

    People ask how I come up with my characters. 

    People ask how I come up with my worlds.

    Here is one tool that I use for both. 

    The 30 Day Character Interview: I answer only one question per day for each character because it gives me plenty of time to think, for the characters and worlds to marinate in the back of my mind while I do other things.

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  • Author to Author – Trin Carl

    Author to Author – Trin Carl

    Let’s welcome Trin Carl as this month’s featured Author. Trin is currently working on a YA Novel, Oh Brother, about a foster child who comes to stay with the Radtke family. Their adopted children, Zion and Amelia, will do anything to make sure this new kid doesn’t change their families’ lives. She plans to publish later this year, so keep your eye out for it. Ever ambitious she’s also starting a Youtube channel where she will post book reviews.

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  • Author to Author – Melion Traverse

    Author to Author – Melion Traverse

    It’s time once again to welcome another Author to my page. Melion Traverse is a writer and a grad student (how do you find the time?).

    Do you read outside your genre?

    Actually, most of my reading is done outside my genre. Is that a positive or a negative? I don’t really know. The majority of what I read is non-fiction, although I do tend towards reading speculative fiction when I read fiction.

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