At least, every year in my experience of life thus far. What is “it”? “It” is a month which happens to be called “August.” And that particular month-name happens to be the name of the most popular character from my Firmament series. The first August after Radialloy came out, I did several August-themed posts, including an interview and contest, special…
There’s a lot of discussion and disagreement among writers about whether a story should have an intentional theme or message, or whether every story even needs to have one. Some say that a story can be more honest and well-crafted without a single, intentional theme, and others say that a unified message makes a story stronger and gives it meaning.…
When I recently asked for ideas of what to post on this blog, the response was unanimously in favor of Firmament posts, especially about the writing process or sneak peeks at the upcoming book. I’ve been pondering different ideas for things I could talk about, and I hope to get back on a consistent blogging schedule. Thinking about Firmament these…
I just finished writing a short story I started writing almost a year ago. It wasn’t exactly a steady, continuous process, though. It started when I was doing some medical research for another story, and one particular process got my wheels turning, and I started writing. I got about three paragraphs in and there was a problem. I realized that…
As I mentioned a few days ago, Firmament: In His Image is featured on Homeschool Authors this week for the Read to Win program. As a part of that, I was asked to write a post about what readers have been saying about In His Image. Why not let them tell you why you should buy the book? In other…
And I mean that in the literal sense. As in, actually make my day. Not the accepted meaning of that phrase which means that you are going to do something bad. It’s like I’m being sarcastic about a sarcastic phrase, in which case the phrase reverts back to its original meaning which means it isn’t actually sarcastic anymore. Kindof like…
I regularly check the Amazon and Goodreads reviews. This isn’t because I’m narcissistic, or even fishing for encouragement (though encouragement is awesome), it’s because I like to post them on social networks to promote my works. I like doing this because first, I’m an introvert and don’t like promoting myself, and second, there’s that whole “let another man’s lips praise…
And I am merely a player, playing many parts in a very short time indeed. I’ve been traveling, editing, finishing revisions on Firmament: Machiavellian, reading, doing housework, and living life, just to name a few. Thus it’s been rather difficult to get blog posts together. I have several guest posts in the works, will soon be making announcements, and am…
My friend and fellow-author Sarah Scheele over at Stardust and Gravel (I must stop and say again how much I adore that blog name) tagged me to participate in the Sunflower Award! What is the Sunflower Award, you asks? Why, it’s just a fun blogging event where each blogger gives eleven random facts about themselves, answers eleven questions, then tags…
Reviews of my books always make my day, and Amazon reviews are especially precious because the more reviews a book has, the more likely it is to sell. Between that and the joy of hearing how God used my work to impact a reader… Yeah. I just really, really love reviews. So imagine my delight when I discovered yesterday that…