Category: writing

My Amended Publishing Plan

I’ve had all kinds of strategies in mind for how to make it as a writer, based on stuff I’ve been told to do by other writers, marketers, agents. You have to have a web presence, they say. You have to build a blog following. You have to make a name for yourself as a …

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Seabingen progress!

  Here’s what I’ve done so far on the fourth Seabingen novel. It may not look like much, but it’s taken me a couple of months to get here. First, I read over the original novel and decided that it was crap that wasn’t worth publishing. Okay, so it’s not all crap; there are scenes …

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Writing Advice: Prologues

 Dear Blog Friends: This is my first flowchart. I used visio, only to find that wordpress doesn’t want me to post visio documents for “security reasons.” Um. Okay. Gimp to the rescue! It’s not a pretty flowchart. I’d like to have colors and have it a little tidier, but as this was my first …

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Dayrunner Promo Video

Dear Blog Friends, I made a video. Call it a promo video of sorts. I am hoping people will find it amusing on its own, and maybe they will seek my book out because of it. Here’s the link. how to stake a vampire   Kater

Dayrunner…live!

Dear Blog friends, Book three in the Seabingen series is up. You can get it on Smashwords, or Kindle. It’s $2.99 at both places. My friend Keyan Bowes helped me with last-minute typos and inconsistency errors. She lobbied for a different title, but I couldn’t come up with one I’d liked better (and it took …

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