A few weeks ago, I touched on maps for my story. Early in the week, I happened across a post by a member of the Facebook writers’ group I’m in and saw some wonderful maps that another author had been working on. She’d been using GIMP, which I’m not familiar with, but her maps were GoRgEoUs!! So, feeling inspired, I decided to revisit my map of Gexalatia. I actually ended up with way more than what I anticipated when I started! My first step was to find a map generator. I have

This week has been totally crazy. I’ve been super busy, and yesterday was a bad day. We lost one of our horses yesterday… 😦 So for the blog, I just want to remind you guys about the contests that the deadline is April 30th, as well as some other stuff from the Wednesday News Post. And I also wanted to share my first interview with website Write and Author! Author E. Paige Burks Write and Author is interviewing E. Paige Burks, author of Return to Royalty. E. Paige Burks, budd

I was tagged by the amazing Tolkien-fiend E. E. Rawls to participate in a blog hop! It’s my first one ever, so yay! I had to dig way back into the archives, almost seven years ago, to this little guy: Well Hello TherePosted on December 12, 2010 Hi! I have never had a blog before, so this is going to be an adventure for me! I will try to post something fairly regularly, however I cannot guarantee that it will be every day. Mostly look for story tid-bits and excerpts. I’m sure

This is an auto-generated post to let you know that I’m not here! I’m currently on a cruise ship, heading home from Honduras. If I haven’t fallen off a zip line or drowned, I’ll have more next week. Until then! #writing #books #publishing #editing #waiting #fantasy

This week is going to be a little light. I’m writing this on Tuesday night because by the time it hits on Friday I will be heading to a cruise ship! Yay! So instead of a usual post, I’m going to share a video that I did as part of a web series for my publishing company called NOW WHAT? This is part three, but you can find the rest on Facebook and YouTube. Leave a comment on what you think! What’s your experience been with covers? #writing #behindthescenes #advice #YA #books #

This week I was originally going to talk about character sketches. I had some more crudely-drawn images for you guys! But I joined a few new writing groups on Facebook, and I’m so surprised by what most authors don’t know! So this week we’re going to talk about ISBNs. ISBN and Barcode for Return to Royalty! What is an ISBN? ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It is the number on the top of the picture up there. One agency per country is designated to issue ISB

I am proud to announce today that Infinity Flower Publishing is now offering editorial services! If you’re like me, you’re an author who has big dreams but little money. And that’s okay! I want to make editing and proofreading options affordable for us little guys. So far this year, just on editing alone, I’ve spent more than $500. That’s a lot when your book is still in production! That means right off the bat, to recoup my costs, I have to make that back, and then some. I’m