Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
Restless Spirits is my first guinea pig in this whole self-publishing experiment, so I thought I’d share some of the things I learned about the process. Formatting is easy and relatively painless. Smashwords has an excellent style guide, and after I prepared my manuscript according to their instructions, I only had to make a few very minor […]
Read More »This weekend I’m planning to buckle down and make some headway on getting This Old Haunt ready for publication. In the meantime, since TOH was never intended to be more than a working title, and since the cover I created for the Scribd version two years ago doesn’t really accurately reflect the book’s romantic-comedic tone […]
Read More »I still have to mail in the paperwork to make it official, but Daydreamer Publishing has a logo! Here’s the black and white version that will be used for print: And here’s the full color version for the (eventual) web site: It’s simple, but I’m happy with it.
Read More »First, my writing progress for the week: Day Project Wordcount Saturday Dominion of the Damned 572 Sunday Dominion of the Damned 0 Monday Dominion of the Damned 0 Tuesday Dominion of the Damned 1134 Wednesday Dominion of the Damned 922 Thursday Dominion of the Damned 0 Friday Dominion of the Damned 2001 Total 4629 […]
Read More »I ended up being too scatterbrained yesterday to get any editing done, but today I made good headway on my novelette-length short story, Dream Child. Among other things, I settled on a new title to replace the working title, and that new title is Hungry Child. I think that sounds a little more ominous, don’t […]
Read More »The other day I bought the domain daydreamerpublishing.com, although I don’t know yet whether I’ll ever actually use it. I’ve seen some great arguments in favor of self-publishers going to the effort of setting up their own publishing imprint.
Read More »Not too long ago, I had a moment of self-discovery. It wasn’t a life-changing epiphany so much as a moment of, “Oh! Well, of course!” And that, my friends, was the realization that I’m really just not that interested in writing for money. Well, maybe I should rephrase that. Of course it would be nice […]
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