Writing and Publishing: Book Updates and Other Plans
Hello, readers! I just wanted to take a few minutes to talk about what’s been going on. I published book one of my vampire secret agency series (NAVSA) a few weeks ago, with a new cover. The book had a…
Writing and Publishing: My Truth About The Self-Published World
Hello. My name is Claudia Silva and I’m an author. I’m an author because I write books. I’ve written many, many books. I have ideas about books that I’ve yet to write, too. I began writing books because I discovered…
Writing and Publishing: Finishing the First Draft of “The Fall of Witchcraft”
Cover Teaser If you have not read my books about the Vampire Secret Agency, well, what are you waiting for? Book one, “The Recruit”, may be a little slow at first, but it’s the set up of a world filled…
Writing and Publishing: Book Promotion with AskDavid
AskDavid.Com is a book promotion website. As always, I start looking for ways to advertise my books, and in doing so, I found about this website. It is a little expensive, and the return of investment is a little iffy,…
Writing and Publishing: Finding an Editor Part 2
As you know, the more and more I learn from the publishing world, the more I find I am lacking. One of the things I think I’m missing the most is an editor. Ever since first publishing The Recruit back…
Writing and Publishing: Book Promotion – Read Free.ly
With the release of part two of my series, “Werewolf Phenomenon”, I decided to try a few free promotion websites with book one before the sequel became available on June 15th. I set out looking for free promotion websites, and…
Writing and Publishing: Finding an Editor Part 1
MY STORY Well, I got my first super awesome review. It was posted on Amazon Canada for my book “The Recruit” in which is states is one of the best books in the genre (vampires) this reviewer has ever read.…
Writing and Publishing: Proof Issues
Today I got the proofs to my first two books in my Vampire Secret Agency Series… They are proofs, so they are issues. I was showing my husband and he began to realize everything that goes on behind the scenes…
Writing and Publishing: Making Cover Mock-Ups with Covervault
The second book in my Vampire Agency Series is coming out June 15th and I wanted to start working on more professional marketing. I’ve noticed on Twitter and Instagram several authors displaying their books in beautiful 3-D form that have…
Writing and Publishing: The Fate of A Few Drops of Fantasy
“A Few Drops of Fantasy” was released wide through Pronoun back in July, 2017. When Pronoun went out of business, the collection of short stories moved to Draft2Digital. I decided that I couldn’t offer everything I wrote for free. My…