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Blog postTales in Publishing:
The Immortal
Transcripts
I've spoken about my newest series in passing, and announced how it was my first completed novel (the story of how it got published a decade later here). However, I have gone silent about details since. A little backstory here. Quiver, book 1 of The Immortal Transcripts, was my first finished novel after lots of false starts. I made many revisions, had too many betas whose advice I listened too-- -
Blog postTips for Writers:
Plotting versus
Pantsing
Again, I love getting topics via Twitter's #writingcommunity. There's constantly talk within this community about the way in which writers generate their ideas. Basically, there are plotters and pantsers, and everything in between those two camps.
Plotter: a full-on plotter author will painstakingly plan everything out, chapter for chapter. I've seen spreadsheets, charts, outlines, post-it n -
Blog postYA Book Review:
The Inevitable Fate
of E & J
The Inevitable Fate of E & J is an interesting story about past lives echoing into the future, showing great potential.
Elizabeth and Jimmy, former childhood friends who had a fallout, suddenly and inexplicably are drawn to each other after she turns sixteen, despite her having a boyfriend. Aside from this intense attraction, they have strange dreams, phantom p -
Blog postTales in Publishing:
Book Launch Parties
When I published my novella, it felt fantastic. We had an online book launch party for the entire anthology which was a fantastic learning experience. I was a bit sad though, as I couldn't have an in-person one with all my friends, you know the kind of posh event you see on TV and in movies.
Then I published a full-length novel, Apidae. It came out at a bad time financially and time-wise for me: fi -
Blog postGrammar Woes:
"Dash you to Hyphen!"
From a Twitter post a while back, a lot of authors were confused about dashes and hyphens and when to use them. I found that interesting since I can't remember when it was taught to me or if I organically figured it out. I'm a avid reader with a couple English degrees under my belt, so hard to figure out the when and where it entered my brain. I found this to be a finer point of grammar that most teachers probably woul -
Blog postYA Anthology
Review:
Summer Crush
Being an author who was lucky enough to get published in Evernight Teen's anthology Kissed, I wanted to also read the anthology that came before ours: Summer Crush. Just like our anthology, the previous one had a stipulation centered around the setting needed to be during summer break.
Here's the breakdown of the six stories by six great authors:
Sutton Summer (by Sasha Hibbs): A grieving -
Blog postTales in Publishing:
Trial and Error of
Ad Making
Part of getting traditionally published means your publishing company markets for you, but if you think that gets you out of doing it yourself as well, you'll soon learn you're sadly mistaken. Unfortunately, marketing is part of being an author (unless you only write for yourself and don't want to sell many copies). If you are like me, published by a small press, you will need to do even more marketing -
Blog postGrammar Woes:The Truth AboutAdverbs
“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one in your lawn, it looks pretty and unique." --Stephen King
This is well meant advice but I've noticed as of late how the #WritingCommunity has run wild with it, taking it at times as an ultimatum. I'm weighing in here today to discuss the truth behind adverbs in -
Blog postYA Book Review:
Head Case
Despite not being a gamer or a fan of Alice in Wonderland (I'm weird), Niki Cluff still sucks me in and delights me with an intricate world full of surprises, action, and romance.
In Head Case, Allyson--gamer and hacker extraordinaire--is left in a coma after a terrible car accident. Able to hear sense everything going on around her, she discovers the doctors are forcing her coma for an experimental "treatment"&nbs -
Blog postPublishing Tips:
The Ever-Dreaded
Query
Query time! As promised here is another query that worked and snagged me a publisher. The letter itself is in blue with read explaining the method to my madness. I hope it helps you craft your own.
Dear AGENT or REPRESENTATIVE (in response to #PitMad), (here, I had to tag the publishing rep to remind her she had requested my query during this Twitter pitch party)
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Blog postPublishing Tips:
Return to the
Dreaded Pitch
Here's a sneak peek to my upcoming novel--out next week!
In a previous post on pitches, I explained the use and my process for writing pitches. I promised that once my books were safely out and protected under copyright, I'd share my path to getting them snagged by a publisher. As I've discussed before, I'm a fan of Twitter pitch parties and found success in the two I've entered: #pit -
Blog postTips for Writers:
Info-Dumping
What is info-dumping?
You're writing a complex novel. There's info you need to get across to your reader so that they can understand what it going on. You start writing some of it--maybe the character is reflecting on it or a character tells someone a story. You feel like you've got a good grip on it only to realize you've written four pages in a row of backstory. You've just committed the cardinal writing sin of info-dum -
Blog postNew Adult
Book Review:
With Me Now
With Me Now, by Heather Hambel Curley, is exactly what a new adult novel should be, but I wasn't a fan of the ending. In a book category that seems to lack a definitive definition, this novel is a prime example of what New Adult should be.
The story follows Madison Monroe on a rocky start where getting in trouble for underage drinking dashes her plans of going on an archaeological dig that would set -
Blog postCover Reveal:
FYR
My publishing team and I have been hard at work getting my book ready, and I honestly never had so much fun tinkering around with ads, drawing maps, and all the other little things that go into a book, aside from the actual writing and editing. Today, I'm revealing the book cover, but I want to explain the process and why we chose this route.
First, my series Celestial Spheres take place in a different world imbued with fire, light, and stone mag -
Blog postGrammar Woes:
Commas (Part 4)
To see previous blogs about commas see these links: the rules, rules in detail part 2, part 3.
6. Between adjectives that don't relate before a nounWhen adjectives relate to one another, you don't need commas: The dark green house describes an olive green houseBut...When you use adjectives and they don't directly relate, you need commas: The dark, green house describes a regular green house with the lights out.The trick? If you -
Blog postPlaying with Fyr:
Where to House
a Series
I have had a blog with a couple pages on it for a few years, and I have books coming out. I wasn't interested in trying to run a bunch of additional websites, but I recently got two separate book-1 novels of series picked up. I wondered how I should go about promoting my work without overburdening myself.
I read plenty of articles. A bunch said to create social media accounts for characters, create -
Blog postShort Story Reviews:
Authors 4 Authors Publishing
In the theme of changing up reviews, I'm tackling four short stories today. As a precursor, I should say the only short stories I normally dealt with in the past were capital-L literary fiction which I teach to students. Okay, every now and then there's a romance novella, but these novellas get to do more than short stories because they can be half a novel length. In short, I kind of didn't know what to expect when readi -
Blog postTales in Publishing:
A Never Giving up
Story
Some much-needed background info for this tale, condensed: At 23, I attempted my first novel. And failed. I had written stories and screenplay-type manuscripts my entire life. When I tried to flesh out the description and create a narrative voice, I struggled. I tried again and again, but wasn't satisfied. I never finished them. Then, 3 years later, I went for it creating an ambitious 4 character 1st -
Blog postGenre Review:
Sweet Romance
I'm not sure if I dislike the genre as a whole, only having read ones that weren't amazing, but the last book I read left me blah. I refuse to name the title as I would probably only give it 2-stars and I'm questioning myself the validity of my low rating. Was this book a great example of the genre and I happen to not to like the genre or was it a poorly written book?
I'm a sucker for a love story, and I'm not a fan o -
Blog postGrammar Woes:
Commas (Part 3)
Please see this link for a list of comma rules, or the last post for rules #1-3.
4. After an introductory phrase
This is by far the most forgotten comma I come across when grading student papers. Poor comma! We are supposed to offset an introductory phrase or word with a comma. Why? It helps your reader find the subject of the sentence. In the English language, we unconsciously look for subject--> verb--> obje -
Blog postTales in Publishing:
Playing with Fyr
So I announced a successful #PitMad ages ago (story here) and have been silent about landing a publisher since. The silence did not mean nothing was going on nor was there any drama. My publishers and I have been hard at collaborative work, bringing my book to life.
I'm pleased to announce, my book Fyr, Book 1 of the Celestial Spheres trilogy, will be released to the world on July 14th. Fyr is an upper YA novel tha -
Blog postYA Book Review:
War Storm
Right, so my fears were well-grounded when it comes to Victoria Aveyard's War Storm. I did not like this book which unfortunately colors my view of the entire series. In all, I'm left with a blah, how-is-this-so-popular? feeling.
The plot of this book continues right after King's Cage where Cal--no surprise here--chooses the crown over Mare. She's brokenhearted and bitter but must work with Cal to defeat Maven and his allies. -
Blog postGrammar Woes:
Commas (Part 2)
A full list of comma rules can be found here.
1. To separate lists
Yes, we all know this one. Pretty simple except for the Oxford comma debate. And Oxford comma is the commas that goes before "and" in the end of a list. Some people leave it out. Some times that is okay, and some times it's downright catastrophic. Here's the thing, using it is rarely wrong, so why not use it? If not this -
Blog postYA Book Review:
King's Cage
So I was about to give up on this series, but they were purchased for my birthday. I was definitely going to see it through now. In short, I'm still torn. This book is not nearly as good as the first one but by far better than the second. I'm happy I read it, but it does have drawbacks. Spoiler alert! See previous two posts here: book 1 or book 2.
The plot of this third installment of the series, King's Cage, sees Victoria Aveyard -
Blog postWriting Advice:
April Fools Edition
Sage writing advice here 😉
1) If you're majoring in English or creative writing, change your major, now.
April fools! Major in what you love. You might be doing it for the rest of your life. People believe those degrees don't equate success because they can't see the big picture or they are way too focused on money rather than a driving passion and happiness.
2) You should put [cliche from
Books By Lisa Borne Graves
Fyr (Celestial Spheres Book 1)
Jul 14, 2019
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Kissed
Jul 20, 2018
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Christine Rees ,
Kacie Ji ,
Roxas James ,
Peri Elizabeth Scott ,
M. Wiklund ,
Sasha Hibbs ,
Lisa Borne Graves ,
Kate Larkindale
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Apidae
Nov 28, 2018
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