OK, it’s not thanksgiving today but we’re nearing Easter, so I thought I’d let a couple of people know how much I appreciate them. Aside from my family, there’s my critique partner Will L. Hahn whose novels are so good I love them, although I’m not a big fan of Epic Fantasy. He always manages…
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Do you like Epic Fantasy? I have to confess that I don’t – normally (The only exception from this rule are Will L. Hahn’s epic and heroic fantasy stories). It’s not so much because of the creatures or the setting, I love elves, orks, fairies and medieval settings. The problem I face is more related…
Even as a kid, I loved writing stories but I didn’t consider myself an author until recently. Often, I’d sit there and dream of writing my own novels and getting them published. I held long conversations with the authors I loved, Michael Ende, Astrid Lindgren, and Edith Nesbit. But here I am, and author of…
In my house, I hate chaos. It really irks me when my husband doesn’t put away his newspapers and laptop, or the kids forget about their shoes, their toys, their jackets… It takes so much time to tidy up after them. However, I do not mind the chaos in my study. That’s the one place…
As an Indie author, I’ve been struggling with learning everything about marketing. It’s the hardest part of an otherwise lovely job. However, the one and only marketing tool I found worthwhile is, surprise surprise, Word of Mouth. Since no one can buy that, authors have to write good books. Then, how will readers know if…
In the Beginning was the Word… and then (wo)men (why should men get all the blame, ey?), in their ignorance, invented the alphabet (actually they invented several different ones: ours, the Baltic language alphabet, the Chinese symbols, Arabic writing, Hieroglyphs… you get the picture) to complicate things. Now I’m stuck with it in my everyday…