DIY Book Cover Design, pt. 2.5

Happy Monday, folks! Let's get down to brass tacks, shall we? If you haven't seen the first two posts in this series, please direct yourself to them first. Part One Part Two Now, I know last week I said we were going to move on to spines and back covers today...but I've had a few …

DIY Book Cover Design, pt. 2

Hey! You're back. Today we're going to begin work on the front cover. If you're not "back" but showing up for the first time, check out my post from last week before you get too far, as I cover some pretty important questions you need to ask yourself before you decide to make your own book …

DIY Book Cover Design, pt. 1

If you've been following this blog for a while, you may remember a post of mine from a while back discussing making your own book covers. If not, and you'd like to check it out, here it is. This is going to be a fairly lengthy blog series, and I hope you're in it until …

Posts Revisited: The Death of Literature

Good evening, folks. I had every intention on tonight's blog post being something different, but then I got to reading something amazing and, well, it's not been easy to tear myself away for anything today—including eating. So, I'm doing a revisit instead. To a post I wrote exactly one year ago. Let's get started, shall …

Self-Care Sunday: Makin’ Chili

Good morning! I have excellent news! Fall is here! If you live in one of the northern states, you're probably unimpressed by this. Perhaps you're even into wintry weather already. But, here in the south, summer has a tendency to hang on with the strength of a dung beetle.  Seriously, the comparison works. Trust. We woke …

NaNoWriNope

  [So, I know this post was supposed to be yesterday, but you'll have to forgive me as we had Hurricane Michael's remnants coming through. Between power glitches, cool weather for me to watch, tragic photos I couldn't stop staring at, and checking in on family and friends, making sure this was posted just wasn't …

Character Basics

Happy Monday! (I say that just about every week, though I am still not convinced such a thing exists.) As I may have mentioned a half-dozen times, I am in the beginning stages of my next novel. I thought that while I am here, plucking along with the first steps of a new endeavor, that …

Q3: Yikes.

Gooooooooood morning, everyone. I have some bad news. I have really fallen behind in a lot of my author goals...including writing my post informing you of my failures. I'm not sure if that makes it a double, triple, or quadruple failure...but it's time to face the music. After coming off an incredibly productive second quarter, …

Self-Care Sundays: Doing the Dishes

If you've followed my blog for a while, and you have because you're awesome, then you'll know from time to time I talk about self-care. You'll also know that recently I said I was going to start posting an extra blog post once a month talking about self-care because it isn't always about manicures and pedicures. …

Posts Revisited: Writing Sucks

Happy Monday, one and all! Here in South Carolina we are gearing up for Hurricane Florence. It's supposed to be a doozy, though I'm getting conflicting reports on what to truly expect. Some say it'll hit SC directly, some say it should hit closer to North Carolina. Either way, we're looking at some craptastic weather …