Ta-Da!
Blood Wine, Book 2 in the Blood Bond series, finally made it all the way from my mind to Amazon. In celebration, I’m taking the rest of the year off. Not even going to think about Book 3…
Unless, a character starts talking to me 🙂
Category: Writing: Harder Than I Thought It Would Be
Blood Wine
It’s taken me forever, and I’m not quite done yet, but thanks to James at Go On Write I have a book cover for Blood Wine.
Now, if I can just get through the proofreading and formatting stages, I can pop this thing onto Amazon 🙂
Caveat Emptor
Buyer Beware
Is it just me, or does there seem to be more to be wary of these days?
Scams and schemes abound, from the automated phone calls that threaten you with Revenue Canada if you don’t contact them to the truly horrific bogus kidnapping messages that claim they have your children.
And then there’s the people promising to change your life if you only hand over your wallet.
Case in point, recently I’ve been approached by companies offering to promote one of my books. Sounds good, right?
“You’re book has been recommended to us by …”
“We will flog your book on social media daily …”
I don’t know how much money these companies want because I hang up on them before they get to that point. Am I skeptical?
Hmmm… Am I breathing?
The first solicitor didn’t even know the title of my book. The second one sent me an email that could have used a grammar check.
Hmmm…
One caller said his company was based out of Las Vegas. Really?
So many books out there, so many that never get seen let alone read. Every indie author knows this — so do the companies offering to help you.
Caveat Emptor
51,510 Words
Four chapters to go on my current WIP … probably. Possibly. Maybe.
Writing isn’t an exact science with me, nothing even as concrete as theory. It’s more of a hope.
It’s magic really, isn’t it? A picture in your mind and then the search for the words to paint that picture.
I won’t even mention things like plot, character development, theme, point of view, setting and (shudder) grammar. These are all tools of the trade. Important? Of course. Interesting? Not so much.
They are the nuts and bolts behind every piece of writing. They bring coherence to the jumble of thoughts that circle your brain, but sorry, they make my eyes glaze over.
That’s not what writing is about, not for me.
Remember Lego? Latching all those tiny blocks together, making cubes that were supposed to be houses?
That’s what writing is.
Words are the blocks we build skyscrapers with. No, not skyscrapers, castles. Castles in the sky.
The wrong words and the whole thing collapses around you, but…
If you get it right, if your words paint your pictures — magic!
AimerBoyz 