Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
So, I redid this here blog. As much as I love my old custom theme, I felt the need to go back to basics, stop trying to live up to a “brand” that I’ve never been able to quite pin down and stop treating this as my “author blog.” It’s just my blog, and I’m […]
Read More »Here’s a quick and random Friday Five to update everyone on what’s happening in my corner of the writing and publishing world. 1. Last Friday, I submitted Eucha Falls to a horror anthology for consideration. As of today, their submission tracking system says it’s #705 in the queue and their average response time is 20 days. And […]
Read More »Yesterday, Amazon announced that it’s starting Kindle Worlds, “a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games.” Naturally, people have thoughts about this. I’ve seen opinions ranging from “Yay, this will totally legitimize fan fiction!” to “Boo, this will totally destroy fan fiction!” to “… what’s […]
Read More »Today is groceries & Bible class day, so no time for writing. The grocery shopping’s done, and I stocked up on vegetables in an attempt to get myself back on the low GI wagon. I bought a big spaghetti squash to stand in for all the noodles I’ve been eating lately, and I actually picked […]
Read More »Two more excellent questions from reader and commenter Michelle (a.k.a., The Barenaked Critic): What makes [self-publishing] so fulfilling for you, personally? Would you ever want to go the traditional route with a future book? The answer to the first question has bearing on the answer to the second, so let’s start there. In my post […]
Read More »Over the last few years there’s been an explosion in self-publishing, with the advent of not just the e-reader, but accessible technology that makes publishing an e-book easy, low- or no-cost, and potentially very lucrative. And it’s not just e-books, either. Gone are the days of vanity presses where an author who couldn’t get published […]
Read More »This time for Dominion. I have an opinion, but I’m going to keep it to myself for the time being. First, the cover I originally mocked up waaay back in 2009 for NaNoWriMo (which isn’t really up for consideration–it’s just so you can see where I started from): And now a more stylized and […]
Read More »I was recently asked how to make an e-book available on Amazon. The short answer, I said, was to go to Kindle Direct Publishing and go from there… and then I promised to write a post explaining the long answer. So here’s that post. The first step… well, the first step is to write your […]
Read More »I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. I think being transparent with sales numbers is a big help to other indie authors, and to the self-publishing industry as a whole. So without further ado, here is my sales record since I published my first book back in June. Unless otherwise indicated, these […]
Read More »It’s just an uncorrected proof, but it’s so pretty and I can’t stop petting it. A short while back I remembered that I still had a NaNoWriMo winner’s coupon to get a free proof copy of my manuscript from CreateSpace, so I used it for this. I wasn’t planning to release Restless Spirits in paperback, […]
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