Good news, Squiders! We got a cover artist all picked out and set up and our book description finished AND you can go read our excerpt here! (I’ll wait while you do.) Now it’s on to the more mundane (and
Limbo and April
I find myself in kind of a weird place right now. The sekrit project still needs work–most of that marketing stuff we talked about last week, though the excerpt has gone out for approval and will go up at the
Ah, Marketing
Happy St. Paddy’s, Squiders! I should have probably drawn you a landsquid, but that would require me to have foresight. And not be still recovering from brain fatigue. There is in theory wifi here, but the wifi is a lie.
Creating the Right Cover Art
Well, Squiders, work continues apace on getting this novel ready for release in May. We’re finishing up our final revisions and the manuscript is due back to the copyeditor/proofreader in a few days. And now we have a title, so
Hybrid Publishing and Making It Work For You
Our storycraft meeting next week is on marketing and publishing, so as I’ve been working on putting the meeting together, I’ve come across some things that I thought you might like too, Squiders. So, today, let’s talk about the concept
Picking a Title: Surprisingly Hard
My co-writer (the lovely Siri Paulson) and I are deep into our revision for our novel coming out in May. I feel like it’s going fairly smoothly, because we identified a lot of issues ourselves and got started on fixes
Why Do You Follow an Author?
Good news, Squiders! We got our novel off to the editor, so if all goes well, it should be out in the world around the beginning of the summer. Woo! Onwards. One of my goals for the year is to
Community Stories: Inkshares and JukePop
Oy, my main website got hacked. Boo hiss. ANYWAY. There seems to be a trend toward community input these days. The general public has become the gatekeepers, and I think that’s okay. Things like indiegogo, Patreon, and Kickstarter allow people to support
The Mess of the Query Letter
The mess of my life too, Squiders. I’ve finally got everything in order to start getting my submission stuff together for my YA paranormal novel. So now I need to construct a query letter and a synopsis. I haven’t had
A Need For New Music (And a Call for Reviewers)
Okay, Squiders, I need your help today. I went to my old music standby, Grooveshark, the other day, which is where I’ve made my novel-specific playlists over the years, only to discover that it had been shut down (and in
