Ready for beta readers for the third book in a series. For those of you who write series where each book builds on the next and are meant to be read in order, what do you do if you lose your beta readers? How do you find new ones? It's a much bigger ask if they need to read three books!
Just sent out “Rising Resistance" to beta readers! So glad to have revisions off my plate. It's always the slowest part of writing for me. I don't dislike it, I add a ton of material, but it's a slog.
Attention, Brandon Sanderson fans! Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to put me in the position to write full-time by turning me into a multi-millionaire. This post will NOT self-destruct in 5 seconds. 😎 @bookstodon
Lots of very nasty swearing (self-censorship).
Happens when you absolutely can't get into a text, with a deadline breathing down your neck. I've already tried everything: Walking across boggy meadows, staring at goats (they stare back but don't help you), asking a raven (he wanted walnut royalty!), writing, turning on more lights, more writing. This evil text resists. 😭 @writingcommunity@writers
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Starting my thread with this essay about my books & my cats. I created it a few years ago & keep it updated. It's whimsical, it makes me happy, and it's a good intro to my writing. I hope you enjoy it.
Note: All images in the blog post had alt-text last I checked. Book pages on my site should all have alt descriptions as well. Should. It's a work in progress.
Sitze jetzt in der Mittagspause mit Notebook in einem Café und frage mich, wer eigentlich die Idee aufgebracht hat, dass das Arbeiten an solchen Orten so toll sein soll. Also, ja, ich kann Mails lesen und beantworten, aber für alles andere fehlt mir dann doch mein Schreibtisch und der zweite Bildschirm (ja, Luxusproblem, ich weiß) und überhaupt.
Aber es ist angenehm ruhig, und gleich gönne ich mir noch ein Stück Kuchen.
@andijah Kommt halt auf den Beruf an. Die Cafésitzer sind ja allesamt wir Autorinnen.😎 Also, wir sitzen im Café, wenn's am eigenen Swimmingpool zu kühl ist und wenn wir den Champagnerdunst mal wieder mit Koffein auflösen müssen. Gleichzeitig gucken wir viel rum oder quasseln, das nennt man dann "Leute beobachten", "einen Plot entwickeln". Diese Außenwirkung erzielt man auch eher als am Swimmingpool.🤫 🤭 😂 #writerslife#writingCommunity@writers
I know this might seem an odd request, but I'd like to celebrate the removal of my first novel's #Kindle edition from #Amazon. It was published by a now-defunct small press that went out of business in early 2019 and orphaned a lot of books, so if anybody had bought the Kindle edition of Without Bloodshed since then I wouldn't have gotten paid.