Fantasy and Magic
My short story Blaze is in an instaFreebie boxset. It’s a fantasy collection featuring 9 other authors and over 2,000 pages long.
Special thanks to AJ Chaudhury who organized the group and put this together & Amir Lane who designed the stunning cover. The goal was to get this into as many readers hands as possible. Right now we’ve exceeded 1,500 downloads so it looks like we’re on the right track.
It’s available for a limited time so grab the collection while you still can!
This April I’m participating in my first Camp NaNoWRiMo. I joined a cabin with other fellow KBoard members after I saw Evenstar’s Kboards thread.
My goal is to write 120,000 words this month. As of today I have 6,632 words down. I’m going to be traveling on Thursday for 3 days so that’s going to eat up some of my time as well but I’m fairly confident I’ll meet my target.
Camp has been great so far. I enjoy the company of the other authors and it’s nice to see everyone updating their word counts. It’s certainly motivational watching the great Amanda M. Lee reach hers day in and day out.
Have you ever joined Camp NaNoWRiMo? Leave a comment & let me know!
As an aspiring author I routinely search for self-publishing advice. Today, I stumbled across a Kboards post asking, “What is the #1 rule of self publishing?”
While most of the things stated seem to be common sense it was interesting to see what each person thought the #1 rule was. There are many components to creating a successful self-publishing career. Each one plays a vital part in building an author platform.
Start somewhere:
Have an objective of what you want to achieve, and then make a plan that will get you there.
-Ava Red
If you do nothing, nothing will happen.
Don’t talk about it, do it.
Focus on creating a quality product:
Write a good story.
Hooky book.
Write a good book.
Without that, no other advice matters.
-Elizabeth S.
Persevere:
Approach the whole endeavor as a business.
-Patrick Urban
Effective habits and hard work matter more than talent.
To make it, you need to persist over the long haul.
And when it comes to your work, remember:
Develop a thick skin – reviewers can be merciless.
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What do you think is the #1 rule of self-publishing?