Picture Credit: Tammy Bowers Synonym for Published? BUSY! When I signed my first book contract in 2016, I was totally ignorant of the work load I would soon face. Hey! I’d written two of the three manuscripts. I just had to pound out a third by the end of the next year and I was finished. Right? Wrong! […]
Mountain Brook Ink
Exciting News–Book #2
One of the greatest satisfactions when publishing a book is seeing its cover for the first time. My debut novel cover, An Anchor On Her Heart, was everything I could have imagined it to be. This past week, I watched with wonder as the cover for my second book in the Mended Hearts series, Love […]
As Summer Wanes
The petunia blossoms have wilted. The ‘dragons have lost their snap. The paintbrush blooms of the celosia look more like dust wands from my kitchen closet than the soft, flame-shaped flowers they once were. All are signs that summer is coming to a close. Autumn waits. School bells will ring, farmers will plow their fields, […]
Launching a Book–Part 2
This week I met the graphic artist hired to design my cover. When I say “met”, she appeared in a chat line thread on my Facebook page, along with my editor. Her picture was the size of a cheerio on the screen. I have no idea where she lived. Via computer and online messaging we […]
Launching A Book
As many of you know, I signed my first three-book contract with Mountain Brook Ink right before Christmas. Two of my critique partners have published before, so I knew some of what was coming. When I whined to one of them that they hadn’t warned me, she […]
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My Turn
Contract offer! These two words stared at me from the subject line of an e-mail which had just arrived from my literary agent. I’d known something was in the works, but the sight of those words on a message to me seemed incongruous. Like many authors, I’d resigned myself to reality. Publishing had changed in […]