Do you have another series planned? My husband and I have a time travel series planned. We will not be writing on it until the Standing Stone series is complete and the fifth book in the Students of Jump series is out. It will be written for the New Adult market. Though I don’t want…
When is the next Students of Jump book coming out and what is it about? Puff – manufactured pet extraordinaire. I am planning to begin writing book 5 in the Students of Jump series in August. As soon as all three of the Standing Stone books are out, then I’ll shift back to SofJ. So…
When is the next Standing Stone book coming out and what is it about? Book 2 in the Standing Stone series is in redraft right now and will be ready for the editing process very soon. I expect to have it uploaded to Amazon and my wide distributor Smashwords by the first of June. Jahl…
I’ve become more aware of the importance of covers. I like mine to have a connection to an important scene in the book. Keeping this in mind and doing some research by looking at covers by authors I enjoy reading who write in the same genre as I and checking out the suggestions of those…
Be the Butterfly – Enjoy life and remember I’ve been studying memory and what I can do to maintain and improve my own. My mother and father-in-law have both suffered from Alzheimer’s related dementia and memory loss. It has been heartbreaking. What has been even more an issue is the effort those around them go…
Sorry, she doesn’t wink on command. First off, she’s not really yellow. She is a yellow lab who is real-butter pale. But she does wink, and it appears to be deliberate. Reasons she winks Cagney is the reincarnation of my dad who was a winker. Sure, I have proof. When she is very happy, she…
Opportunity: learn from failure However, you can also learn to help yourself and learn you are capable of improving. Let yourself fail; let others fail. Then give yourself and others the opportunity to learn from that failure. I read this great article about how people learn to be helpless through experience and environment. The piece…
Questions and answers. I’ve already written about the decision to stop working on my contemporary novel to work on what I thought was just a fantasy short story. I think a followup is due as just this week I finished the 99K draft of the fantasy novel. It took less than two months to write,…
