Kat on Assignment
Check out the newest post on the Companion Blog to The Gateway Series. Kat is on a solo assignment and isn’t loving it. Kat on Assignment Pt. 1
Book Bloggers
Or, as I like to call them, my heroes. I just want to say thank you to all of the amazing book bloggers who have not only taken the time to review Gateway, but were willing to give a self-published e-book a shot. All authors depend on reviews and word of mouth, but with indie…
On Scrapping Most of My First Draft
I was talking with a good friend about how I wouldn’t be using the majority of what I’d written for the first draft of Book 2 and she reminded me of a story about an artist (who’s name escapes me) that would paint an entire tree, even if the final piece would only depict a…
Outlining Versus Winging It Redux
So, in a recent post I discussed the differences between plotting out a novel in its entirety and going with the flow to see where the story takes you. At the time I was planning to try detailed outlining, thinking it might save me from the dreaded “shitty first draft” by replacing it with the “shitty…
Formatting Woes
So frustrated… Even after paying for formatting of my novel, Gateway, I recently discovered that a handful of my italicized phrases didn’t end up italicized. This wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that my heroine hears a “Voice” and I used the italics to differentiate between her thoughts, and Its thoughts. I’ve…