Some people have asked me if my stories ever evolve into something different than I was expecting. Or if my stories ever change as I’m writing them. Sometimes they do slightly, other times quite a bit. Did you want to see what the changes for one story look like? I give you By Paths Unknown […]
What Writers Need
A while back I took a poll asking a large group of writers what they considered their top 3 things they needed to write. I assumed that everyone had a story idea, but otherwise the questions were wide open. I did find it somewhat surprising. You want to see what I found? 19 people said […]
Follow the Idea – Home Fires of the Great War
Some people have asked me if my stories ever evolve into something different than I was expecting. Or if my stories ever change as I’m writing them. Sometimes they do slightly, other times quite a bit. Did you want to see what the changes for one story look like? I give you Home Fires of […]
10 Years Ago . . .
Ten years seems like such a long time ago, yet at the same time it seems so short. Was it really 10 years ago this month that I released into the world my very first book? I can’t say it was a dream come true because I had never really thought about writing and publishing […]
Follow the Idea – Through the Tunnel
Some people have asked me if my stories ever evolve into something different than I was expecting. Or if my stories ever change as I’m writing them. Sometimes they do slightly, other times quite a bit. Did you want to see what the changes for one story look like? I give you Through the Tunnel! […]
A Very Bookish Interview
Welcome to my accidental interview with Sarah Holman about the Very Bookish collections. I wasn’t planning on interviewing Sarah, we were just chatting and I had a few questions about the collections that I was curious about, and those led to a few more questions . . . and here we are. 🙂 Have you […]
Follow the Idea – Graham Quartet
Some people have asked me if my stories ever evolve into something different than I was expecting. Or if my stories ever change as I’m writing them. Sometimes they do slightly, other times quite a bit. Did you want to see what the changes for one story look like? I give you The Graham Quartet […]
The Journey of a Story – Part 6
To the Bookshelves This is the final stop on our story’s journey. I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip and learned some things. Once I made those final corrections from the proof copy, I created my kindle book for Jim Wood. I don’t like creating the kindle book before I’ve made the final corrections or I […]
The Journey of a Story – Part 5
Final Checks The proof copy is in my hands! It’s always an exciting moment when I get to actually hold my story in book form even if it is a proof copy. But now what? After I’ve admired it and and commented on it and found some things to fix (the synopsis was way too […]
The Journey of a Story – Part 4
Formatting/Cover/Proof My story is written, it’s been edited to a certain extent, now what? Now I get the fun part. I mean I love writing and seeing the story come together and finding out what happens to my characters, but I also enjoy formatting, designing the cover, putting it all together and getting my proof […]
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