So, what am I working on now? On Friday, September 29, I finished the last page of the last book of my new Savagespace series. After a lot of world-building, layout, plotting, and planning – the final book has been finished. Originally, this was going to be a 6-book series. However, as I worked on…
Hell yes. Art and passion tend to be one and the same. When I was very young – not quite 5 years old – my parents took me to see a movie that changed me forever. That movie was Star Wars. Thanks to A New Hope (which I will forever just call Star Wars), I…
Artists and creatives face unique challenges with being entrepreneurs. I used to think my ability to write rather easily wasn’t all that unique. I thought everyone was able to formulate ideas and translate them to text and put them on a page or screen in the same way that I could. But over the years,…
It’s all about the choices made for them and their use. In the distant past, all art was one-of-a-kind. Even a reproduction of a work – text, art, or both – was a singular production. For thousands of years, books, scrolls, maps, and other art were created solely by hand. This is part of what…
Something different for me and my writing/publishing game, at least. As I’m sure you’re sick of reading by now – I started writing sci-fi when I was 9 years old. Wildfire is a 50-page, illustrated book you will never read. After Wildfire, I started but didn’t finish a few other projects. Then, at age 13,…
No debate, that just sounded funny in my head. What is a beta reader? A beta reader is someone who reads an unpublished work specifically to give feedback to the author. They are expected to comment on any plot issues, pacing, continuity, and other storytelling matters. Along the way, they might catch a few errors…
There’s no right or wrong answer, just lots of options. When I finished my first sci-fi novel – 50 handwritten and illustrated pages – at the age of 9, I tried to get it published. For the creation of a 9-year-old, it wasn’t bad. But neither was it good. As I got older and (I…
Art is both empowering and powerful. The power of art is apparent in many, many forms. Paintings, sculptures, books, architecture, music, acting, dance, fiber works, and so many other places. And within each of these, numerous genres, subgenres, themes, schools, types, variations, and more. Art is the ultimate in human expression. Creations for beauty, thought,…
What I love is a combination of things that all tie to one thing. I love storytelling. Recently, I went to the big medieval event I attend every August with about 10,000+ people. For 9 days or so, I lived in a canvas square pavilion (10×10 feet, 5 poles, the center is about 9 feet…
Altering my path as an authorpreneur When I first began to self-publish, I used CreateSpace. Via this fantastic website, I could format both an eBook (Kindle) and paperback for publication – mostly to Amazon. I started slowly. It began with some of my nonfiction works. This, in time, would be moved to a separate name…
