Today I’m going to write about a pet peeve of mine: Twitter’s Direct Message feature. Specifically, how authors use Twitter’s Direct Message feature. This week, I had several people follow me on Twitter. (I’m here: @stephanie_cain) Generally speaking, I take a look at someone’s profile and their most recent tweets before …
Continuing on from last week’s post, I’m going to answer a few more of Bethany A. Jennings‘ March #WIPJoy questions. There are a few spoilers here for my book Stormseer, so if you haven’t read that and don’t want to be spoiled, I’d suggest skipping the rest of this blog post. …
Wow, so far 2016 has gotten off to a rocky start for me. I suffer from mild chronic depression, and my doctor and I forgot to up my Zoloft dosage for winter this year, which was a mistake. So I managed a strong start to The Weather War, and then …
Dear Self-Published Authors, do yourself a favor. Stop charging libraries so much for your e-books. Robin Bradford is someone I follow on Twitter, and she frequently Tweets her collection development work as a librarian in Washington state. Since I have Librarian IV certification in Indiana (I actually have 3/4 of …
I am of the fervent belief that speculative fiction is the literature of hope. Successful grimdark authors like G.R.R. Martin and Joe Abercrombie and popular dystopian sagas like The Hunger Games notwithstanding, I believe that the main function of speculative fiction is to imagine a better world that could exist, …
Books Read in 2015 I read a total of 75 books last year. Here’s the full list! Please note, all links are Amazon affiliate links. :) The Thousand Names – Django Wexler River – Skyla Dawn Cameron Unstuck: Out of Your Cave Into Your Call – Mark Jobe – nonfiction …
2015 Year in Review Seems like everyone’s doing a year-in-review post. I meant to do one a couple of days ago, but I’m just now getting around to it. New Year’s Eve I was busy plotting instead of writing. Yesterday I spent much of the day doing a First Day …
The Midwinter Royal: A Romance of Tamnen I’m very excited to announce that I have a holiday surprise for all my readers! No, it’s not The Weather War–that’s still having the plot smoothed out and such. But it is a new story set in the same world as the Storms …
Scarecrow is Rhonda Parrish’s third Magical Menagerie anthology, released as a sort of partner and complement to Corvidae. The works are largely unrelated to those of Corvidae (reviewed here), but they carry similar themes, since crows and scarecrows go together like peanut butter and jelly. Or maybe I should say …
I did it! I won NaNoWriMo 2015! Whew. It was a hard-fought struggle sometimes. At one point I accidentally deleted a scene that I’d planned to delete after November, but had already written. Those were 1500 or so words I had to replace with 1500 better words. But I battled through …
