I love the New Year. It’s invigorating and inspiring to be starting over, getting a fresh take on things, and recommitting to goals and dreams that maybe didn’t quite see their fruition last year. I’m big on office supplies, so one of my favorite ways to kick off the new year is with a new …
Category: Musings
Writing blog
May 30
Writing Creative Nonfiction
In my prior life as a university English professor, all I did was nonfiction writing. I taught it. I wrote it. I lived it. And I discovered something in the process: there is a strong tendency to want to divorce creativity from nonfiction writing. When you take a “creative writing” class in school, no one …
Feb 12
Jazzing up the Editing Process
Hi all! Goodness…the holidays and the New Year obviously swallowed up the SisterMuses! We have both been busily writing…just invisibly. I am feverishly working on The Artifex (Book III of the Silesia Trilogy), which will be released on August 31, 2013. J. Leigh is immersed in the world of The Madness Project, which she plans …
Nov 30
The Lords of Askalon…Now Available!!!
It’s finally here, everyone! So excited to announce the release of The Lords of Askalon, Book II in the Silesia Trilogy! The ebook is available today on Smashwords! The Kindle version should be out tomorrow and the paperback will follow shortly! A few words of thanks are in order… To my amazing husband and kids …
Nov 06
Formatting Your Print Manuscript
Well, here we are…almost a week into NaNoWriMo…and I have zero words on my NaNo novel. At this point, it’s a NO novel. Ha. But it’s for a good reason. I’ve been getting The Lords of Askalon all ready to go to press. Formatting, my friends, formatting. And that’s our topic for today. I’ll lay …
Oct 25
How to Make a Book Trailer
As promised, here’s my post on how to make a book trailer! I hope you’ve had a chance to view my Lords of Askalon trailer on the SisterMuses YouTube channel, but if not, here it is again… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUypj4Cagg] So, now that you’ve finished watching it, I’ll explain how I put this trailer together so …
Oct 24
Lords of Askalon Book Trailer
I’m so excited to share this with you! Here is the book trailer for The Lords of Askalon! Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a book trailer like this for your own work! Enjoy! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUypj4Cagg&w=560&h=315]
Oct 17
Editing Focus 4: Syllabic Editing
Okay. So. Long overdue editing blog post: check. This is the last Editing Focus blog post we’ll have for our Fall Blog Fest…so…hope you enjoy it! It’s my personal favorite, as far as annoying things like editing are concerned. 😉 Syllabic editing isn’t something you’ll hear talked about a whole lot. I first heard about …