Zoey was a flower girl, and it was surreal. She’d been in her mom’s second wedding when she was five, and she’d deliberately thrown handfuls of flower petals in the guest’s faces as she walked down the aisle. This time, of course, she was actually happy about the marriage, but it was stil...
2023-06-19 14:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostAjax ripped the headset away from his face, nearly fumbling it as his thick gloves got in the way. “Damn it!” He glared at the headset as though it was responsible for what had just happened.
Beside him, a door creaked, and his mother peered into his bedroom. Her mouth was open, probabl...
2023-06-16 15:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Yay, I actually get to write instead of angsting about things! Today and tomorrow we'll have Vexxx's story, which leads into the long-awaited Rouge novella starting Monday!
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Vexxx leaned back on the glass floor, his feet pr...
2023-06-15 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostAria is done! We had one last SNAFU with it yesterday, so we spent an hour or so chasing that down, and then I went through and made the cover and uploaded it, so it's actually live! I did put the ebook on the 'zon, and took all the others down from Google Play and B&N. Tomorrow, they'l...
2023-06-14 14:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostI really, really hate KU's exclusivity rule, especially since you 'enroll' for a three month period, so if they screw you over (like they did me) the rest of your books are stuck for up to three months before you can change to another service. I guess the 'good' news is that if I somehow violate ...
2023-06-13 15:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostTest is done! (At last! 🎶) I'm going to spend today uploading it and making the print cover. Fun fact: I can't design that cover until I have the print pdf, because the spine changes width depending on number of pages [obviously] and I have yet to find a single calculator online that ...
2023-06-12 14:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostI just sent Aria off to the formatter. (A third, since the first is still working on Grimalkin, and the second is on vacation until the 14th. Goodness.) I should have an epub for you on Monday, and then I'll start working on a few more short stories, and/or Rouge's novella on Tu...
2023-06-09 19:35:50 +0000 UTC View PostI've been having fun creating enough of a relationship between Ava and Veronica that it would be realistic for Veronica to tell Ava about the rumor that Amy wasn't actually Amy. It also allowed me to add in a bit more about what, exactly, Amythyst does or doesn't feel for Ava. Since I'm this clos...
2023-06-07 16:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's my current setup! I added some book-related enamel pins, as well as stickers and buttons of Khor, Nuisance, Silus, and the infamous buns. My daughter and I had fun making dragon eggs, and, of cour...
2023-06-05 15:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostI'm pausing editing while I head to ConQuest 54. I'll be doing that all weekend, and I'll send you a photo of my setup once I get it, y'know, set up!
2023-06-02 15:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, I know it's something we have to do, but still...
If anyone wants to help me out, I'd love it if you would share my announcement post!
And now, back to editing...
2023-05-31 15:05:57 +0000 UTC View PostI got Lament back! I'll leave this post up for a few weeks, so everyone can snag their copy. Today, I'm going to get the print book uploaded to Amazon and B&N, and the ebook on B&N and Google Play. I'm also debating adding IngramSpark to the list, so we'll see how ambitious I fee...
2023-05-30 15:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostI'm switching formatters for Cuckoo (Wish me luck!) Hopefully, this formatter will be able to get Lament back to me by next Tuesday, and I'll send you guys a copy as thanks for supporting me!
This schedule will allow me to put the books up for sale before I go to the conve...
2023-05-26 18:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostCuckoo's Lament is now complete, and I'm sending it off to the formatter. (Who is still running behind. Sigh) I'm moving on to Aria, but I thought I'd send you guys the art I'm using as chapter headers in Lament, first.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
2023-05-25 19:41:56 +0000 UTC
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Most of the changes I'm making are pretty subtle, though I added a bit to the scene when Ava asks Amythyst why she picked Ava, rather than hiring someone, or picking someone else.
The biggest change is going to revolve around the idea that most people at Landon House believe Amy is a random...
2023-05-25 16:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to finish edits on Lament this week, do some minor updates to the cover, and get it all to the formatter. I probably won't have anything for you until that's done, but I'm working!
2023-05-22 16:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
And I still hate it 😂 My kiddo is sick at home, so I only got five chapters done, too. Sigh. But I at least have some bits and pieces for you, left over from my cover-creation efforts! I had two cover ideas in mind, but when I put them both together, I ended up with a clear winner. Still, here...
2023-05-18 19:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostI know, I know, I said I was going to work on the cover for Aria after edits, but then I did the pictures for Grimalkin, and realized that sometimes my images require minor text/story changes, so it might be better to swap the order.
Plus, I hate editing, and I like making...
2023-05-17 19:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post
It took me until about ten last night, but I got these bad boys finished, placed in the book, and book text updated to match the images. I mean, usually you make the images look like the book, but when you're not an artist and you can't afford to hire one (seriously, this is a career goal for me)...
2023-05-16 15:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostI've created some images to go in Grimalkin. Once those are edited and in the book, it'll be ready to go to the formatter, and fingers crossed, ready to publish by this weekend. Yay! I'll upload those images here once they're done, and then head into editing Cuckoo.
Now, when...
2023-05-15 14:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostAria grinned down at the little girl clinging to her leg. “You’re going to have to get off, kiddo. Time to log out.”
“Don’ wanna,” the little moppet said, lower lip protruding. “Ther’py hurts. I wanna stay here with you an’ Brandon.”
Brandon, an older and far more ...
2023-05-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s dark.
Dark, and nothing hurts. Is this what death feels like? Surely she didn’t survive. Is she being reincarnated? Ava floats, and she wouldn’t have been surprised to see an umbilical cord, extending out from her center, into the darkness.
If she could see anything.
...
2023-05-11 14:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostHeat, smoke, and crackling fire surrounded her. There was no way out through the door. No escape the way she’d come in. She’d have to go after Veralt.
Sudden urgency flooded through her, driven by the rapidly rising heat and the way the oxygen was burning out of the room, leaving it fil...
2023-05-10 15:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostNone of the security stations were manned, but they really didn’t need to be, since the doors they were guarding couldn’t be opened anyway. Instead, all of the people who would have been watching the doors were instead wandering the halls. Ava had noticed that there were a ridiculous number o...
2023-05-09 15:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostA piercing siren woke her from a restless sleep, filled with nightmares where she chased after a green-gowned figure she could never seem to catch. When she sat bolt upright in bed, her hands stretched out in front of her, clawing at the darkness of her bedroom. The only light came from her scree...
2023-05-08 14:41:44 +0000 UTC View PostI got into the final arc, and settled into a groove, and just finished up the book. I wrote four chapters, 12000 words, which is 21 pages in Google Docs. I usually write 2-3k per day, so this is... rough. I'm happy with it, but I'll be editing it more thoroughly than usual before I hand it off to...
2023-05-06 03:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a shower alone went surprisingly well. She set the temperature as low as she could stand, and the cold blast brought her to herself better than any amount of caffeine. It was difficult to get the bodysuit open with only one hand, but once she got it started, the force of the water practica...
2023-05-05 15:11:07 +0000 UTC View PostA gentle but urgent hand shook her awake. “Alpha,” Myles said. “Wake up.”
Groaning, she tried to push him away, burrowing back into the pile of furs that someone had put around her when she finally fell asleep after crying herself out. “Leave me alone,” she muttered, rolling ove...
2023-05-04 16:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostThey were six thousand seven hundred and forty-two wrong turns - according to Vexxx, anyway - into the next level when Tess sat down and clutched at her head. “I just can’t do it,” she groaned. “This place makes my head hurt, and I’ve been nauseated for days. I really, really h...
2023-05-03 14:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe this is the only thing we got from that stupid farmer,” Vexxx complained, holding up a brass key with a shank as long as his hand. The head of the key was, not surprisingly, a cube, and the teeth were long and blocky.
Tess and Vexxx had brought back a half dozen good-...
2023-05-02 14:36:21 +0000 UTC View Post