It takes a lot of work to be an author. Being an indie author is even tougher because you have to do everything or hire someone who can. You are the CEO of your own business. Indie fantasy and paranormal books are beautifully diverse. More so than traditionally published books. They are the kind of diverse I’d…
People will judge a book by its cover, and it’s interior. I touched on this in the post What Does Your Cover Say? How do you escape the DIY look most self-published books have. Well, you can hire a professional cover designer. For some, that’s not realistic. I don’t have the money to keep going to…
I was so looking forward to this post. I’ve been writing it in my head for a week. Chains of the Sciell book trailer took longer than expected. You know when you reach a point in your story when you’re only changing small things? That’s what happened with this trailer. I was at the end….
First, I made a country. Now, I need to tackle the world. I’ve started working on the world map for Chains of the Sciell, Book 2 of The Merging Worlds Trilogy. I’m doing this more for fun. The characters never leave Jael. It’ll be useful to include a world map in the book since the story…
The video of of me talking about my writing life and reading a passage from The Sciell is ready. Well… it’s shareable. Sort of. I mentioned I was editing the video from my author talk. My camera recorded a lot of crowd noise, which drowned out my voice. I had to find some way to…
I’ve been having like a nerd- week. It’s awesome. In the post, “Writing is About Giving Your Blood” (TAP!), I said I attended a publishing conference in Orlando. There, I won a year subscription to Adobe Creative Suite. I was like okay- I’d never won anything. This is cool. I didn’t realize what this actually…
