With publication of Monsoon Season days away, there have already been a few advance reviews. Here’s the review by Qualities of Wood author Mary Vensel White. He...
Since my interview yesterday with Patrick Blackburn, I’ve thought a lot about my own use of the real world in the stories I write. Like he said, people often ma...
Patrick Blackburn, author of Cupid Missed, was nice enough to agree to do a little blog interview. This is my first interview and his response was so interestin...
Patrick Blackburn’s debut novel is clearly a work of semi-autobiographical fiction. It’s impossible to say how much of it is true- is this a memoir with the n...
These are the print covers I made up on CreateSpace. Like the rest of the process, it wasn’t exactly easy. I tried to just use the cover image from my publisher...
To format some paper copies of my book, I needed all kinds of help. I needed to use my boyfriend’s laptop with a current version of Word. He also figured out ho...
I got the Constable & Robinson catalog in the mail! The best part is that I’m on page 43:
That is not a word that would ever be used to describe me. So this idea I had to create some print copies of my book that is set to be digitally published in Ju...
I was having a conversation recently about how the majority of readers are women and then I wondered what the numbers are. So I looked it up. This article puts ...
So I said I’d talk more about this and then I got distracted. It has been a week since the workshop and I thought it was worth sharing the big take-away from th...