Notes on the departing books – SPSFC #4

This year, I’m on the Peripheral Prospectors team as a judge for SPSFC. We’ve recently announced our six quarterfinalists, as you can see in this post with more information and previous posts available on the team page here. I’ve been a participant t...

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Jan 14, 2025
New books for 2025!

I hope you had a safe and fun end to 2024. In this edition of my newsletter, I have a brief report on how 2024 went for me as a writer, what I'm working on now, and what you're likely to see from me in 2025.My 2024 I had a pretty great 2024 with my w...

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Jan 01, 2025
More progress on my new mystery

Progress on the new mysteryI've made some great progress on my new mystery novel. I'm probably 60% of the way through, writing every day, and I'm just launched on what I'm thinking of as the second act. My main character, Amy Galanis, is a public lib...

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Dec 15, 2024
My editing process

A Kenai reader who’s also an author wrote me to ask about my editing process. I thought I’d share my answer to him with you all here. For my first book, Flames Over Frosthelm, I hired a developmental editor who was really great, but I haven’t include...

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Dec 15, 2024
Six years of page reads

I put together a progression of 60 days of my page reads in Kindle Unlimited showing good growth from 2019-2024. I stuck with the same date range each year, Sept 1 to Nov 29. Pretty happy with what I found. Data Notes: — I rescaled the default vertic...

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Dec 14, 2024
My November Finances as an Indie Author

I’ve been doing a monthly review of my finances as what I think of as a middle-range indie author – more successful than some, far less successful than others. See here for my thoughts on the developmental stages of an indie author career. November r...

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Dec 07, 2024
Developmental stages of an indie author

I’ve come up with a (likely imperfect and non-universal) set of stages in the development of an indie author. Here it is: I’ve been at this five years, and I think I’m probably at the Crossroads stage. A lot of activity under my belt, consistent page...

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Dec 07, 2024
Lots of words

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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Dec 01, 2024
Woeling Lass freebie coming up Nov. 22

The Woeling Lass will be freeWell, she'll still be captured in a tragic tale of betrayal and loss, but the book will be free. The Woeling Lass is one of my Inquisitors' Guild books, the fourth one I wrote, although all of them can be read in any orde...

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Nov 16, 2024
An October in the indie book business

I’m doing a summary of my October book business. That turns out to be a tricky month to calculate precisely. I’ll start with the basics and then get into the complications. Basics Sales The total orders graph is stupid, because I had a BookBub fueled...

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Nov 01, 2024
My sixteen for the scouting stage of SPSFC

I’ve done a bunch of these contests now (four SPFBOs, two SPSFCs, three BBNYAs, a SFINCS, and some others), and one thing I know as a participant is that it’s fun seeing your book progress through the competition, and it’s also nice to know what’s go...

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Oct 09, 2024
I’m judging SPSFC #4!

After participating in SPSFC twice (#1 and #3) with Daros and Kenai, and lacking a book to enter this year, I decided to try my hand at judging. I’ll be part of the Peripheral Prospectors team this year, led by Athena over at OneReadingNurse.com. Our...

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Oct 03, 2024
My thoughts on NaNoWriMo.org’s recent troubles

So, I’ve done NaNoWriMo for the past five years, and I’ve written a whole bunch during these Novembers, the majority of four books and a good chunk of Daros (my college was trying to illegitimately sack me during November 2020, so writing suffered th...

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Sep 03, 2024