Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! You know you’re bookish when a new shelf makes you happy. I was surrounded by books. They were in piles on the floor and on a table. I’ve shown you these pictures before. My shelves were overflowing. I hated searching for a book. I could never find it when…
It’s a great time to be a writer. It’s also kind of a pain. Authors, no matter which route you take, have to be authorpreneurs. Fortunately, book promotion is like 90% digital. Only big name authors get print ads. New companies are creating ways to promote books. Because they want indie/hybrid authors to use them,…
I usually don’t see this kind of movie. A film about the Civil Rights Movement is going to be heartbreaking. Reading about it is hard enough. Seeing it would be gut-wrenching. But, the buzz around Selma had me curious. I was not disappointed. This was a beautiful movie. Not something I say often. The acting…
You have a month long promotion for your book. How do you share it across social media? After awhile, people are gonna get tired of seeing your book cover. I’ve seen some creative ways of sharing a cover on Instagram, but those are for print books. This is where image quotes come in. They give…
Marvel needed to fill our Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hole. (Sounds dirty) I mean that show’s not coming back til March and they left us with one mother of a cliffhanger. Agent Carter is my Marvel fix. This is Marvel’s first show with a female as the headliner. The story focus on Peggy Carter, the female from…
The first one was better. I know, not the best way to start out a movie review. It wasn’t terrible. The scares were awesome. Sympathetic characters. But, man that plot was full of holes. The atmosphere was on point. This was good for some horror story inspiration. I mean look at the house. Eel Marsh…
Page 2 of 365. What’s going on this year? -I’ll be on my first panel on January 31th at ALA MidWinter Meeting in Chicago! Will talk dark fantasy. Looking forward to it. I used to be terrible and terrified of public speaking. Until school. I spent years doing presentations in front of my classes. Now,…
Now’s the time to be thinking about my blog for the new year. Dark Treasury’s been doing pretty well. Thanks to all of you! Engagement and pageviews are consistent. I remember, years ago, when it felt like I was talking to myself. I’d miss a day posting and lose followers. Now, that doesn’t happen. Thank…
And now we’re back to our regular schedule…schedule. Sorry for being afk (got gaming on the mind from an anime) for over a week. Christmas threw off my blogging. I recently completed a cover redesign for Deborah Johnson (my mom) and her co-author Mark Wallace. Last year, they published We Are Not The Enemy. It’s…
Almost finished the world map and the new map of Jael. I just need to add darker boundary lines. Jael is the main province (land) in the series. Book 1, The Sciell, was set in only two places- De’Ray and Raesul. The characters didn’t care about the rest of the land. In Books 2 and 3,…
