Rethinking Everything or Critique Hell 101
Note: Please read all the way through this blog before deciding that I’m a whiny emo kid in a 34-year-old woman’s body and should never, ever be a writer. Thanks. I have recently returned to the...
View Article“Song of Spirit” is Now Available!
Okay, so I jumped the gun a bit and got Song of Spirit published before Monday. Hey, what can I say? I’m excited! Click here to buy your copy! Right now, only the paperback edition is available, but...
View ArticleHaving Your Cake and Writing it, too
I’ll admit it, okay? Sigh. I’ve been kind of frustrated with the whole traditional publication game. Okay? There it is. And a game it is, full of rules, regulations, and secret codes you have to figure...
View ArticleWhen Your Darlings are Habitual
Hi. How ya doin’? Good? Good. I don’t know what it is about Autumn that makes me want to blog, but I feel it in the air. And today I’ve come up with the perfect subject: Commas. I have found that I...
View ArticleOverhaulin’
So, you may have noticed a few changes going on around here. Don’t worry. It’s just a bit of site overhauling I’ve been doing in order to streamline my dual publishing careers. I will continue to...
View ArticleMy Top Five Reasons for Self-Publishing
There seems to be a general attitude among many (read: not all), in the professional writing community that those authors who self-publish are “giving up”, “lazy”, or simply “not talented enough to...
View ArticleI’m Gonna be on the Radio! (Take Two… er… Three!)
Some of you may remember way back when I was a guest on Miraj’s Metaphysical Madness, talking about my middle grade kids’ fantasy series “The Elementals”, and its first book, Song of Spirit (which is...
View ArticleThe Self-Publishing Myth
Okay, I’m going to be perfectly honest here: There is one myth going around about self-publishing vs. trade-publishing that I am tired of reading. Seriously tired of it. So today I am going to give it...
View ArticleMore on Self-Publishing: Chapter PLEASEFORTHELOVEOFGOD, EDIT!
The other day I wrote a post called “The Self-Publishing Myth”. For those interested, it can be found here. It turned out to be quite a popular post, which of course made me happy. That said, when I...
View ArticleSpoCon 2013 Wrap-Up!
So, SpoCon 2013 is officially over, and the world (okay, Spokane… whatever) laments the loss of con-dom for another year. BUT, the weekend was an amazing experience across the board, and it’s time for...
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