Multiple POV characters is like having ten voices in your head. I’m worried I got the voices mixed up. Or worse, they all sound the same. Writing ten POV characters is tiring. Sometimes I just throw stuff in because I don’t want to deal with them. In the editing stages, how do you make sure…
Me and snow had a little problem over the weekend. More on that later. Before that nasty blizzard hit Chicago, I had an amazing time at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting. I had one monster of a…let’s call it an adventure getting from my home in Brooklyn to the hotel in Chicago. I got lost 3 times….
A career molds how a character views the world. For instance, writers see stories in everything. I use job and career interchangeably because, in my series, the word career doesn’t exist. In The Sciell, I didn’t have to worry about careers. The characters lived in a small community. They didn’t have any career aspirations. Most…
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,…
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,…
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,…
I admire those who can write everyday. I’ve tried. It’s not for me. I have a short attention span. It hasn’t been a problem in the past because I’ve always needed to multitask. I may not write everyday, but I get enough work done to finish/publish a handful of stories. Now, I need to go…
Writing and world building aren’t the only fun you can have while crafting a story. It’s funny. I never would’ve gotten into Photoshop if I hadn’t jumped out of my comfort zone and went the non-traditional route to publish my stories. I didn’t think about Photoshop until I realized it’d be cheaper to make my…
I’ve talked a lot about magic powers. I love, love giving my characters powers. Making their abilities realistic can be a pain. I talked, in general, about powers in the post Fantasy Powers: Magical Beings. Let’s get specific. In The Merging Worlds Series, the characters can use their power to create basic things like shields,…
Here’s the cover for Chains of the Sciell, Book 2 of the Merging Worlds series! For those making covers or any artwork for your book remember, you probably won’t get what you want at the first try. It’s like a first draft of a novel. Your first try at designing a new cover might be…
