by admin | Jul 3, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts
Ever heard of companion planting? It’s where you place certain plants alongside specific other plants so that they grow better or discourage pests. Like, for instance, planting tomato alongside basil helps improve growth and flavor. Beets are helped by lettuce...
by admin | May 8, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, Promotional Patty
Today’s guest post is courtesy of Ishabelle Torry, one of my beloved beta readers and a fellow author I met through Breathless Press. She’s here today to talk about her adventures with self-publishing for the first time, in the wake of Breathless Press...
by admin | May 1, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts
Now that my first publisher, Breathless Press, has officially closed, there’s a sad sense of finality there. No longer are my or my fellow author’s books available on their website, or on Amazon. It’s all gone, torn down, packed away, returned to...
by admin | Apr 24, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
On 1 May, Breathless Press will be closing following a year of declining sales. This decision has not been an easy one to make and has not been made lightly. We have always put our authors first and so we have chosen to close now, on our own terms, while we are still...
by admin | Apr 10, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts
Being a writer involves a lot of WAITING. In fact, there is nothing speedy about this profession. Writing a regular-length novel, at it’s quickest, can take a month — but that’s only when you have the biting flame of NaNoWriMo under your ass. For me,...
by admin | Mar 20, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
I’m not a big book reviewer – in fact, this is the first and perhaps last review you’ll see on this blog. But a recent read hit very close to my romance core, so hard that I felt compelled to shout my thoughts into the blogosphere. I found Chetan Bhagat’s “Half...
