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I have been doing a lot of hard thinking about the direction that I want to go. Do I want to go the traditional route or do I want to indie publish my novels? A lot of people in my corner encourage me to go the Trad-Pub route. But for the last 10 years, I'd convinced myself, that because I don't write to market, and I want to earn more money than a typical advance, I want to self-publish my novel. Much like my pen-name post last month, a lot of my information is a decade old

Over the years, I've had people ask me, why I'm not using a Pen Name. My initial thought has always been; pen names are outdated and I'm not ashamed of what I'm writing. Initial based pen names have excited for a long time. JRR Tolkin. CS Lewis. RR Martin. But their all men. Women romance authors has a tendency to use their first and last time, but there is a rise in popularity in women romance authors to use their initials, like VE Schwab and RF Kuang. Of course women author

Today, we're gonna talk about something a little different. The last two weeks of June just fell apart on me. I didn't do any sort of writing at all, so I didn't hit word count goals. Some personal stuff cropped up, then there's the heat, and all motivation has gone out the window. Writing is easier in the evening, cause the sun has gone down and the house cools down, but then I'm tired and I don't want to do anything. The struggles of being an Author and allowing things to g

If you're apart of the Author and Reader spheres, you've probably heard the terms Plot and Pants. But to just hear it in general conversation, what he heck does it mean? I suspect Plot is obvious. Just in case though… Plotting is when Authors outline the entirety of their novel. They build the world they are going to write within, and then they form the story inside of it and the character motivation. All plotting authors know what will happen in ever single chapter. They kno

Plans and Dreams… This is something I don't ask myself very often. What are my plans? What are my dreams? History suggests that whenever I make big plans, they always fall through. When it comes to dreams, I don't usually get the opportunity to realise them. I've been writing Cambion Strength, my first novel, for ten years; did you know that? I just recently discovered that. If I had the money and the means to have published my novel sooner, where do you think I could be? Gra

We know the Adage 'When Live gives you Lemons, make Lemonade'. What do we do, when life doesn't even wanna give you lemons? Check your fridge. I've been trying to make an art career get off the ground for ages, and why? So I can have an income to work on my novels. That has always been my goal with my art and it would be circular. Novel did well, I got paid, left over funds goes back into the art; it just never happened. There probably were signs. I would get into a thing a

On the heels of the editing of my first - and hopefully Debut Novel - The Cambion Strength, I find myself asking; what is my writing process? I'm not talking Plotting vs Pantsings, which is a blog of its own. I mean, like how Steven King gets up at 6am, goes for a 3 mile (about 6km) walk, has breakfast and sits at his desk no later than 8:30 in the morning. Reads the last page or 2 of the pervious chapters and write until around 1 in the afternoon, ensuring that 6 pages of st