Category: Promotion
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Character Spotlight: Thad Greller, more than comic relief
Thad is the youngest son of the Duke of Podrar. His father is the king’s chief adviser. I picture him as a few years older than Vane, the main character. Thad doesn’t have a huge role in the book, and you could certainly call him a comic relief character and not be incorrect. But I…
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Thankful Thursday: Thankful to be so close to book launch! Here is all the info you’ll need for it
We’re in the “Magic Council” month of May, and I couldn’t be more excited. Book launches are a torrent of emotional ups and downs, jubilation and anxiety. But they are such milestones and achievements. I cannot wait to share this book, and Vane and August’s story, with the world. A couple of things to note,…
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“Beauty and the Beast” and influence on Herezoth
I always say Beauty and the Beast is one of my 3 favorite films of all time (the Disney classic animation). Casablanca is my favorite film. I also love Newsies. Beauty and the Beast had two major influences on the Herezoth trilogy, I think. The first was unconscious. It’s Belle’s “provincial town.” Belle may hate…
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My least favorite things about KDP Select
Yesterday was the positive. Today, the negative. I’m happy, as an author, to be enrolled in KDP Select, and I don’t have any plans to disenroll at this time. That said, there are things I don’t like about it. The main thing I don’t like is the Countdown Deal–the option to lower the price of…
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My favorite things about KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited
As an indie author, I’m enrolled in KDP Select. My favorite things about KDP Select from Amazon fall into two categories. For those who don’t know, KDP Select is a program that authors can enroll in for a three-month period, then either renew or cancel. Basically, Amazon gives you some things in exchange for making…
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How I craft my characters
I admit that the title of this post is a bit like clickbait, because the answer is: I don’t feel like I “craft” my characters at all. For the most part, they just come to me as who they are–what they look like, their backgrounds, their way of talking, their temperaments and personalities. All of…
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The blog/ social media roller coaster: part two
The social media roller coaster–inane, stupid content getting nocticed, important and useful posts getting absolutely throttled by the algorithm–can be frustrating, deflating, and confusing. I can’t tell you how to beat the algorithm. I have no idea. But here’s what I do to handle the situation as best I can: So, this is what I…
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Character Spotlight: Queen Gracia
Gracia Phinnean has become one of my favorite, and I think one of the most complex, characters in my trilogy. To the extent that I added content to books two and three for the upcoming second editions, the content I added pertains to her subplots. Drafting a prequel while working on the second editions really…
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Thankful Thursday: Thankful for my audiobook narrator
Today, I am so excited to say that an audiobook version of “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” is currently in production. I had some eleven narrators audition to do the book, and I am so excited to have landed on the narrator I selected. She is wonderful. She’s so nice to deal with…
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What I mean when I say “Herezoth has heart”
Every writer loves a good review. But sometimes, you get a review that gives evidence that your fiction is touching hearts in the way you’d hoped it would–in the way that you pray it might. I like to say that “Herezoth is for everyone,” referencing my Herezoth trilogy, and I mean it. We all need…
Creative Writing with the Crimson League 