Writing and Publishing: Switching to Draft to Digital (D2D)
Since Pronoun.com announced their last day online would be January 15th, I began researching for an online publisher to substitute all the wonders that Pronoun provided. It was hard. At the end of the day, I was torn between publishing…
Writing and Publishing: “The Tels” and Why It Is Important
A while back – we didn’t have kids, so at least 10 years ago – my husband and I went to a comic book convention. It was when comic book conventions weren’t as HUGE as they are now here and…
Writing and Publishing: Pronoun is Dead… Now What?
On November 9th it was announced that Pronoun was going out of business.My world ended.I have needed a few weeks to get over the fact that the greatest thing in my life as an independent author was going to go…
Writing and Publishing: What is Your Vortex?
Here is one of the definitions of Vortex according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Vortex ˈvȯr-tə-ˌsēz: something that resembles a whirlpool I don’t know about you, but in my life, there are a lot of…
Writing and Publishing: How to Help an Independent Author
As I am writing this, I have just announced the release of my new book “A Few Drops of Fantasy”. I made a Facebook post on my author page and then shared my own post on my personal timeline. Several of my…
Writing and Publishing: New Cover with Fiverr
A few weeks ago I tried Fiverr for the first time. Fiverr is a website where people offer their freelance services. It is a good option for me because I can get a product of better quality than whatever I could come…
Writing and Publishing: Revising “Rivals”
“Rivals” is the last of my short stories that will be featured in my short story collection “A Few Drops of Fantasy”. This is an important story because it really helped finally get away from Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles as…
Writing and Publishing: My Evolution as a Writer
I started writing Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles fanfiction after reading a lot of them in college. I would go to the library with white sheet of paper and write about these characters that I had grown to love. I remember…
Writing and Publishing: Inspiration Part 5 – The X-Men
Back in 1992, I discovered the X-Men. I remember my first issue I ever bought was the first part of X-Cutioner’s song in the Uncanny X-Men. I had seen comic books, I had heard of comic book characters, like Batman…
Writing and Publishing: Marketing a Book Is So Time Consuming
I love to write. I have been writing since 1994. I became a serious reader in 1993 and one year later I was writing fanfiction. Fanfiction later turned to original stories. I’ve written novels and short stories (and more fanfiction)…