Like many writers, I create soundtracks for the novels I write. Not every novel. But frequently. The current novel, Spoiled Harvest has had a soundtrack for a very long time. Since the 2015 season of The Voice. (It has a lot of Sawyer Fredricks on it.) (The soundtrack for Tainted Waters was created during a different Voice […]
Yes! A new story bundle! And I’m in it! It’s the Women in Fantasy story bundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. One of the things I love about this bundle is something Kris points out in her description: These writers build worlds, new worlds, worlds we’ve never seen before. In my opinion, that’s one of the most important things
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I have a confession to make. I watch reality TV shows. Not things like “The Bachelorette” or “Big Brother.” No, they’re shows where the contestants must have talent. Like “Face Off,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “The Voice” or even “Project Runway.” In the early days of “Project Runway”, when it was more about
So I had the one week in January when I felt awesome. Followed by two weeks of yuck. I still made my word count every week (10,000 words). Though they were mainly non-fiction words, they were still “salable” — I finished off the next Business for Breakfast book, and started writing the script for the next
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You might be thinking that title refers to rebounding back to health after being sick for a week. Nope. I was feeling great by last weekend. Was looking forward to kicking butt again this week. Monday was fabulous. Got a tremendous amount done and was moving forward again. Yesterday and today have been full of migraines.
I’d originally planned on writing about my successes the first week or so of the new year–staying on track in terms of walking (10,000 steps a day) as well as writing (over 10,000 words in a week!) Plus meditating every day, picking up yoga again, etc. However, I woke up about 2 AM this morning
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A long, long time ago (possibly in a galaxy far away) I was published by New York. My first three novels were traditionally published. I had an agent, an advance, mass market paperbacks, horrible copyedits, no one returning my calls, the whole nine yards. One of the results of this is that I’m on more
Earlier today, I passed the 400,000 word mark. All salable words. On the one hand, I missed my goal of 600,000 words by quite a bit. On the other hand, 400,000 words in a year doesn’t completely suck. Tomorrow, I will write another 2000 words (at least) on the current story. (It’s about that alien
As y’all may or may not remember, I’m offering a brand new print interiors workshop starting in January. (http://www.KRPWorkshops.com) To create the interiors for your print books, I recommend using the InDesign software. That’s what I use for the workshop. Yes, there’s a learning curve for InDesign. But if you use some other program, like
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About a year and a half ago, I quit the day job to become a full time…entrepreneur. I’m not writing full time. I only write in the mornings, as well as a couple of evenings per week. I did not write as many words this year as I would have liked. I wrote more this year
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