Have you ever had a scene that is in such bad shape that it just makes you want to flail incoherently? Yeah, me too. But, in other news (I totally wrote “noises,” which I credit to my in-laws watching a
Tie-in Fiction Friday: Only Human (Doctor Who)
Doing a little better than a year and a half between posts, eh? For Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary back in 2013, they put out a collection of books, one for each Doctor, that were special 50th anniversary re-releases. It was
The Fluidity of Genre
We’ve been going through genre conventions at my storycraft meetings, Squiders. We were supposed to do all three speculative fiction genres at a single meeting–horror, science fiction, and fantasy–but we started with horror and two hours later were still happily
The Adventures of Kate Readalong: The Ancient One
Aha! I bet you thought we were never going to get here! (Believe me, I was starting to feel that way too.) But here we go! And hopefully we run into less issues with the final book, The Merlin Effect.
The Evolution of a Book Description
We talked in May and June about an older novel of mine, Shards, which came out in December of 2013, and how I suspected my book description for it was doing a terrible job of selling it due to a mismatch between
New Marketing Round-up
I have been to the library 4 out of 5 days thus far this week. Do you think I have a problem? Right, so we talked recently about how some of my staple marketing techniques have been giving diminishing returns,
The Adventures of Kate Readalong: Heartlight
Right, as promised, here we go, Squiders! I found this to be an easy read (I read it in bits over three days) but it also rubbed me wrong a lot of times. Let’s get into it, shall we? First
The Healer’s Rune by Lauricia Matuska
Good morning, Squiders! Today I’m pleased to present to you The Healer’s Rune, a fantasy novel by Lauricia Matuska. Three hundred years after a great war shattered the Council of Races, the warriors of Rüddan have all but eradicated their cousins, the
Doing Your Own Marketing
Ah, Squiders. How I long for the days when all you had to do as an author was write the books, and someone else would sell them for you. I am not a good seller. You guys have probably noticed
Library Book Sale Finds: The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold
I know I did one of these, like, last week, and I apologize for reading library book sale books so close together. Except not really. So, as I mentioned about a month ago, I bought this book to read for
