Writerly things
General Title: Her Demons: The Witch’s CurseGenre: Paranormal RomanceContent Warnings: sexual content, languageTarget Audience: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy loving adults Summaries One sentence: A witch is kidnapped by a demon to remove a curse on a friend of his. Blurb:Curses shouldn’t lead to love, but demons are the exception to everything. Luna is an unremarkable witch …
Book blurbs are a necessary task in the writing process—from query letters to self-publishing, you need a good blurb to get any hooks. Your blurb tells the audience what your book is about in as few words as possible. I try to keep mine under 200 words. Thanks to a friend (Vincent Yam, go check …
I’m a plotter, which means my writing process has more than a few steps. I plot the story and I write character sheets. Not everyone works like I do, but if I can give anyone direction then I’d consider this post a win. For those of you who’d like an outline: The Snowflake Method is …
General Title: To the SkyGenre: Fantasy RomanceContent Warnings: violence and blood, mild languageTarget Audience: Adult Fantasy Lovers Then the auctioneer came out with the next job. “Classified job from the royal family!” was all he said, but it caught Jim’s attention. The offerings weren’t meager, either. Starting at enough that James could afford to pay …
Title: AscendantSeries: Book 1 of Songs of ChaosAuthor: Michael R. Miller A dragon rider story about a cook’s apprentice and his blind dragon Pros Cons Easy prose The Order sucks Dragons! On the larger end than I prefer (500+ pages) Wraps up nicely, while still leaving room for new stories I can’t think of anything …
January is the start of a new year, and that means new goals! I’m really looking forward to this year and how much I’m going to get done. This is going to be the year I query literary agents, and the year I self-publish Coup d’État. Starting off, I made this cute graphic to summarize …