I have a cover!

YOU GUYS! YOU GUYS!!! I HAVE A COVER!!!! Betsy did an amazing job on the art – I love love love it! Just what I wanted – she saw into my head perfectly! You can see her previous… Read More

The Digital Revolution

A couple of interesting things I’ve come across in the last month to do with self-publishing & eBooks sales: eBook Sales have tripled in the last year. – Which is fantastic news for all authors – well, those… Read More

My Origin’s Schedule

As I’ve posted before, I’ll be launching my first YA Lit novel, War of the Seasons: The Human at Origins Game Fair June 22nd-26th, 2011. One of the really exciting things I’ll get to do there is be… Read More

Concept art

I spoke with my cover artist, Betsy, today to see if she minded me posting her concept art for my cover. She said to go for it! So here goes, but please keep a few things in mind:… Read More

On book covers

Who knew that actually giving input on your book cover could be both FUN and ANXIETY ridden? Part of the reason that I want to go the self-publishing route is that I am a control enthusiast (or freak,… Read More

Final draft – complete!

Or should I say abandoned? 😉 I made my first deadline – my editor has my final draft, and I must say, it’s both exciting and terrifying. I know I could continue to edit and revise probably forever,… Read More

How do you…

…revise your manuscript’s final draft in a week and be happy with it? The answer is, you can’t – and I suspect the same would apply if I had a year to work on it. “Art is never… Read More

And then something awesome happened…

SO, I posted on on my previous entry that I had a goal publishing date of somewhere around the end of June or beginning of July so that I could have my book ready for Dragon*Con. Good plan,… Read More

Time to get organized!

I’ve decided to chronicle my adventure/journey through self-publishing my first novel – hopefully you’ll find this useful, or at the very least entertaining. 😉 So, with my decision made to self-publish War of the Seasons, Book 1: The… Read More

Decisions decisions…

I was hesitant to post this, because I was afraid that people would JUDGE ME, but then I realized I’m being silly. The truth is going to come out eventually. And the truth is, I’ve decided to self-publish… Read More