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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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