I'm so excited for book2! I've put so much work into telling the story I really want to tell with this book. I'm getting really close to the editing stage and I wanted to share another one of my favorite scenes. Y'all know I'm a complete tea addict by now right? Right, hehe anyway enjoy! … Continue reading Surprise! Another excerpt from LC!
About three years ago I got fed up looking at Fire's Hope and decided to finally buckle down and rewrite it. So I started with an outline. I went through and took scenes I thought were absolutely necessary and did bullet points on all the notes I wanted to hit. The rewrite took a good … Continue reading Book2: The Rewrite Process
Over the course of this process I am being constantly reminded of just how much I have to learn, an everyday it seems what I didn't know wants to bite me. Nobody told me about all the technical processes behind releasing a book and no matter how much research I did before, I'm still caught … Continue reading Week 36: Hiccups
Let's get real for a minute, all of this is new to me and I'm figuring everything out along the way. I've been doing intense research for the last two years, trying to figure out the publishing industry, marketing, and self-publishing, and once I set my mind to it, information comes pretty freely. My struggle … Continue reading Week 34: ARC copies and a couple mistakes
It's that time again! Hello Readers and Writers, If there's anything I've been able to stay consistent with, it's keeping up with my bimonthly goals. Journalling has become a part of my everyday schedule and I can't live without my little book. I'm really looking forward to September and October because fall is my favorite … Continue reading Week 33: Bimonthly Goals and Pre-Release hype!
The past few weeks have been a little slow, but so much has happened that I'm crazy excited about! So give me a moment to comb through my journal and arrange the events in chronological order rather than vomiting it all out in a frenzy! I got my first proof copy of Fire's Hope at … Continue reading Week 32: Final Update before everything catches on Fire
Hello Writers and Readers! Last week was awesome! I had a plan, I had the means, I was ready to get it done. Monday I went to my bank to deposit the money for ISBNs, Thursday after calling my bank I found out I needed a new debit card. Mhmm perfect timing. I drove into … Continue reading Week 29: Announcement–EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!!!
Hello Readers and Writers! I must apologize for my infrequency of blog posts as of late, I've been working hard getting the funds together for publishing and this week is going to be huge! I got a lot of stuff done in the last two months, and thought it felt slower than usual, I hit … Continue reading Week 28: A Long But Productive Silence
Business starts now! After a nice vacation and adventure in the Netherlands, it's time to get back to work. Edits on Fire's Hope are almost complete and I've got some big stuff planned for the next two months. Elfia Haarzuilens For a long time I've had a great friend in the Netherlands who has been … Continue reading Week 24: Elfia Haarzuilens and bimonthly goals
I have not stopped writing even though I'm hard at work editing the first Shadows book for publishing, I have 13 other books that have all been written and are in the lineup for publishing! My current writing project is a trilogy about the dragon children of Caelan Fanir. The titles for this trilogy will … Continue reading Week 23: The Fanir Dragon Trilogy (Series/Cover Reveal)
E Kathryn's Shadows 