In celebration of MASQUE’s fast-approaching 1st birthday, I present to you A BEAUTIFUL HAT AT A REASONABLE PRICE, a MASQUE short story! Full of froth, feathers, and even a bit of intrigue… A Beautiful Hat At A Reasonable Price A beautiful hat at a reasonable price is always an essential item. It is, of course, […]
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It’s a funny thing, this self-publishing business. You start out with reasonably realistic expectations–‘I’ll probably only sell a book per month at first’, and ‘It’ll take a long time to build that email list’–and you put your head down and work at the thing. You sell your book-per-month, and you feel grateful. You’re excited that there’s someone
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I’m going to be unusually prolific with my blog posts this week. Sorrynotsorry. One of the reasons for this is the end of NaNoWriMo (my first NaNoWriMo, from which I emerge a glorious winner!) and what feels like an excess of free time. Another reason is my novella sale that’s coming up, and about which
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Cool stuff I randomly found on the internet: Bookcase Edition! I found this lot on IncredibleThings.com I’m sure you’ve got room in your life for bookshelves like this: Platzhalter Expanding Bookshelf If your bookshelf always seems to be bursting at the seams, maybe you should just let it. You’re obviously not going to stop collecting
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I’d like to start out this blog post by saying that I break the rules. A lot. (Not laws and work rules and such- I’m almost offensively straight-laced when it comes to following those. I am not a rebel.) Nope, I’m talking about writing rules. The ones that say things like ‘Cut ALL adverbs and
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It’s been a busy week. And now that I’ve written the word ‘busy’ five times, it’s looking really weird to me. Maybe I need a nap. But I digress. It’s been a busy week. My proofs for Wolfskin came in (finally!) but since they’re late arriving I have only a week and a half to check and
This week I’m Playing Nice With Others. Absolute Write’s blogging section has a blog hop every month, and this month I decided to join up. Hi out there, Absolute Writers! The prompt was St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, or anything Irish. So of course I made you all a flash piece of fiction about sadistic leprechauns.
When I first decided that I was going to go with self-publishing rather than traditional publishing, there was no doubt in my mind that it was going to be a long, hard slog. I knew that I’d have to work very hard for potentially very little reward, and that success – if it came – would
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Let the games begin! The book blog tour for Masque has kicked off at The Indy Book Fairy, where you can read an excerpt and enter to win a paperback copy of Masque. Come on along and say Hi! Further stops will be: 15th- I Heart Reading (Starter Party) 17th- Nat’s Book Nook (Promo Post)
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Okay, so first things first. When I talk about Hannibal I mean the TV and Movie Hannibal. I haven’t read the books. That said, proceed! I’ve watched a few of the Hannibal movies (Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, and Hannibal) and I’m now in the process of watching the second season of TV Hannibal,
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