This year has been a doozy, not only for the whole world, but for me personally. In the midst of my rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, I’ve been in pain and exhausted. I’ve had to cut back on things like author interviews (switching from video-based to text-based) and have cut waaaay back on marketing efforts. Namely, advertising. […]
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Kaizen – The Art of Continuous Refinement
Yesterday, I finished another round of edits on book one of my fantasy trilogy, The One Who Could Not Fly. It took me both longer than I expected and less time than I expected. But I think that the edits were helpful, necessary, and overall make the book better. However, going through these edits has […]
Less Writing Than You’d Think
The writing industry has changed a great deal in the last decade or so. When I was a girl, I was convinced that writing as a career meant penning the perfect novel (first try, naturally) and then being picked up by an agent or publishing house, which would then turn me into a bestselling author […]
The List
Ever since getting back from Edinburgh, I have been settling into life as a writer. I realised, mentally, that I would basically be starting a company and acting as the entrepreneur (entreprewriter?). What I didn’t quite realise was all of the things that go into that. First off, there’s marketing. That is more than just […]
A Few Hundred Words
As you may know, I have recently finished my MSc. I am now in the process of transitioning to being a writer full time (or, well, as close to full time as my sanity will allow, with a second job soon to be in the works). And it’s harder than I thought. I write a […]
Drafting a Plan
In less than two months, I will be heading back to the States in order to pursue writing as a career. If you have been following me at all, this will not come as a surprise to you. The fun part, though, is yet to come. Up to this point, I have been slowly building […]