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 …
“Why have you summoned me?” Personality ⇀ Description Serin loves people. He loves talking to them and making them laugh, though he’ll laugh at himself even if no one else finds him funny. He’s chill and doesn’t rile up easily. His calm is infectious—literally, as he can push his watery cool out through the connection …
I sat down at my desk, coffee in hand, just as the doorbell chimed. It rang throughout the house. Who could that be? I wondered. I didn’t have any company planned toda as I was hoping to spend all day alone at my computer, finishing the sketches I’d started earlier in the week. I sighed …
Gravel crunched under tires as Ben drove up to the yellow house. “You’ve arrived at your destination,” said the disembodied voice of his GPS. He pulled his phone off the velcroed stand and checked the texts between him and Susie. They’d met on Facebook Marketplace. Susie had a cat to get rid of, and Ben …
“A good garden may have some weeds.” Personality ⇀ Description Ken has a hard time focusing on more than one thing at a time. Multitasking is beyond him, though he can intensely dedicate himself to one task. He’s obsessive, sometimes losing sleep over whatever project has his interest in the moment. Time slips away from …