Split Focus

It’s a tricky thing, when you’re in the middle of writing one story, and the book that comes after the current one is chopping at the bit for its time in the spotlight. My eyes keep tracing the spines of the books I know I will be using as research...

More than a catch-phrase

DIVERSITY It’s a word we hear often in different circumstances, though perhaps not as often in reading and writing, where many find a single or small group of genre they prefer to read or write. Me, I am as Eclectic as the company here in my tastes. I can easily...

Little steps build the staircase …

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately. And my way of reading has changed a lot since I started writing. I have always been the type of reader that is going to find the typo or some kind of error. It pops up and glares at me. Enough of them, and it actually...

week 7 – Glitter in the Air

REPOST By Abyrne | May 9, 2013 Some days, life is a drag. I know it. You know it. It’s the worst kept secret for most all of us….when we’re having an off day. As a writer this is lethal. The reader is seldom looking to learn that their hero author is under in some...

Pouncing tiger, hidden manuscript.

I hate this phase of the project. The manuscript is complete and shelved, waiting to be unearthed, revised, polished, and printed. It is infinitely difficult to leave it lie where it is. I want to scour it for everything that needs a bit of spit & shine. My...

Finding the bright spot

The weekend was an exercise in highs and lows. More sleep in one night than I can recall getting  in a week not so long ago – the next night, less than I got when the girls were babies. Taxes done, groceries bought, annual run my chest over with a  car...

Here's the plan …

I still have a few days to go before I get my edits back from the Boss. That’s left me with time on my hands that, for the most part, I’ve spent productively. Book 2 has been completed and is now in the land of Revisions. I’ve decided I like the working title and am...

Week 6 – EFF you!

Sitting here, I know I need to get back on track with our alphabet adventure thru the things that make us great, and I fully admit today, my brain has shouted “EFF” you. It’s not that there aren’t 1001 things that could be said, should be said or need to be said…it’s...

Re-size, not revise

Warrior’s Watchtower is coming out again. The interior files, with the exception of all the ‘big black dots’ has not changed, so if you’re content with your copy… Ooo-rah, enjoy. The book has been resized down to 5.5 x 8.5 to match up...