After two years of on and off writing, I finished the work in progress. Yes, it is a mess, but I adore this meandering slice of life story about inheriting a house and then suddenly everything goes wrong. But don’t worry. No one dies or is badly hurt. Are there a bunch of dropped threads […]
I was so good on sunday and yesterday. I reached my goals, and made good progress. Today… was swallowed by being tech support for mum. I wrote 140 words, far from the eight pages I needed. The upside, is that I called Hotels.com and got a refund for Daytona Regency, which will cover half the […]
I have the feedback from Aliette, who very kindly agreed to beta read Vanished for me. She sent me her feedback a couple of days ago. So I am going to begin the edits on Monday. I have 3 weeks to finish them. Then I am sending the draft to Laura Anne, so that she […]
I am outlining a book. A book that managed to wreck my publication schedule by being book 2 in the series. Not, like I thought, book 3. This is a problem, since I have already written what I thought was book 2, and planned to release it later this year. Obviously that isn’t going to […]
So. Since it is almost 2016, I thought I would discuss the sales of my short stories and novellas. (Spoiler: They are pretty low.) Exile: 28 copies, 14 from Amazon, 14 from Apple. The Cauldron Bound: 11 ARCs, 8 free downloads, 17 sales ( Amazon). The Alchemist’s Apprentice: 6 free downloads, 12 sales ( Amazon), […]
So I have been thinking about my release schedule for 2016. Oh, don’t worry. You are getting Daughter of the Dark, the sequel, and the collection. But you are also getting all the separate short stories, since I changed my mind about just doing the collection. So what does this mean? It means that in […]
I am back from a lovely weekend in Dublin. I had a great time, wandering the city with my mum, doing touristy things most of Thursday and Friday. Then at Friday night, I picked up my badge to Octocon and headed off to see my friends and attend panels. I had a blast. i mean, […]
I am pondering which strategy to use for the rest of the Portal Universe series. Originally I had planned to release the books quite a bit apart ( 6 months), but now I am wondering if it would be wiser to release them closer to each other.. The reason for this, is because I want […]
The publishing: First, Exile now has a permanent price of 0.99. The price has already dropped at Amazon, other retailers are coming during the next 2-3 weeks. Why? Because Kobo was charging 2.70, and since I want to charge 2.99 for The Cauldron Bound, I realised that was unsustainable. Plus, I decided a low price […]
I have been busy this weekend. I have bought a new laptop ( a shiny Macbook Air!), downloaded all the software I need. And, I have edited and reformatted Exile. Yup. Exile has been tweaked and some rough spots smoothed over, so it is as new. It hasn’t been professionally edited, but it is as […]