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Tag: writing life

  • Why Bellica is $4.99, and why my other books will be too

    Friends! Romans! Countrymen fellow indie authors! We are in a crisis. We have been selling ourselves short. Pricing our books at $0.99 just so we can get the impulse buys, driving the market down, forcing our fellow authors to do low prices as well just so they can compete. This is all wrong. If you’re…

  • Apologies for being AWOL

    It has been a weird month or so. Very busy, like a bee, if bees are busy. Haven’t had a chance to do any SFFSat, as much because my laptop, where my WIPs reside, has been acting up, as because I’ve been busy. I’m in the process of backing it up and taking it in…

  • Technique Tuesday: Just write, dammit!

    I really need to learn to take my own advice. I have been struggling with just writing for weeks now. It’s only partially my fault, though. (No, really!) My laptop is on the fritz, so I’m trying not to overuse it while I work on backing up all my files from my external harddrive so…

  • Fiction Friday: in which I eat all of my mom’s Nutella

    What are kids for, right? This week I am not reading any fiction — all my reads are currently a) serious academic tomes or b) books on paganism and witchcraft. Or both. However, I did write a short piece of fiction for Three Word Wednesday, now showing at live in demons and absent angels.  Go…

  • Happy Beltane!

    Today is May 1st, making it the traditional day for Beltane, a Pagan festival. (Or, okay, well, my traditional day for Beltane.) In the Neo-Wiccan Wheel of the Year, Beltane is one of eight sabbats (solar festivals; the others are the solstices, equinoxes, Imbolc, Lughnasadh, and Samhain). It is based off older traditions from various…

  • Writers going to write (gators going to gate, etc)

    So, I’m sitting here eating the official food of women and thinking I haven’t done a Writer Wednesday post in a while.  In fact, I’ve been sorely neglecting this blog. Blame exhaustion, my injury, school, and my shoddy internet connection. At least all of those combined have certainly made it difficult. But in the end,…

  • Blocking, barefoot earth-loving, and music to make you writhe

    I spent the morning walking barefoot in my yard. It’s freezing, and my feet were numb within minutes. It was deliciously sensual, though. With my injury I’ve been cooped up inside the house for over a month. Standing outside, feeling the earth spin beneath my feet, the sun beating down on my face and arms,…

  • Hot fresh novel, available on Kindle now!

    As I mentioned briefly on Saturday, Bellica is now available for the Kindle. I ended up pricing it at $7.99, which is a bit lower than the $9.99 I had originally planned on, but still an accurate representation of the novel’s length and, frankly, what I feel I deserve for it. Also, this price was…

  • The ebook of Bellica is complete

    Complete and on Kindle already! I’m pretty excited. I was super excited about getting print copies done too, but I’m even more excited about this — because Kindle is a wider audience. Even if people don’t own an actual Kindle, the option to get Kindle apps is across most platforms. And free. While I am…

  • Bellica news and where I am

    I’m currently working on the ebook layout for Bellica. It’s a big book, so it’s a big job. When it’s done and uploaded, I will be linking to it here. I have also decided to publish Bellica through CreateSpace, so that it’s more accessible to more people. Unfortunately I think I cannot lower the price…