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Have you ever heard a published author asked what advice they would give to aspiring writers? The answers are usually the same and may include things like "read all you can," "finish your manuscript," "do NaNoWriMo," etc. Being an aspiring writer is not the same thing as being an aspiring publisher of your own work.…
Continue reading ➞ what no one tells you about being an indie author
mango street. The pink-tiled bathrooms and velvet robes have been traded in for patched-up aprons and flour-dusted hands. Where names were once stitched into lilac silk, the phases of the moon are inked across collar-bones. The wives drink wine from mason jars, prune their ferns and poplars. The children sing to the sidewalk songs…
How to support indie authors--if buying their book online is too stressful for you or you just hate reading. Yes, I'm kidding. Kind of. But here's the thing: most people I know who want to support me also don't feel like going on Amazon and buying my book, waiting for it to ship to them,…
“Four kinds of magic flow through the veins of Mirabelle. The Medulla Realm holds the one I favor most. The healing magic as they have named it. Medulla means ‘healing’, and thus, it is fitting. When I first came to the Medulla Realm, my companion, Mishael, was greatly wounded from our flight. When we entered the…
Before, Now, and After “I had brothers once,” I say. My voice is an echo of the ancients. A mourn. A scoff. “But...I betrayed them.” I shift inward when the darkness folds itself around me. The darkness I’ve summoned for myself. “My brothers...their wings were more...magnificent. The first brother’s were fashioned of gold, but the weight was nothing…
I like your hair “I like your hair,” I say, but what I really mean is, “I like how your hair reminds me of soft summer songs, of strawberry milk and clouds in my palms. I think that when it is summer, your hair curls at the ends in sweat and sticks to your blushed…
Hi, my name is Lydia. I am 18 years old and have published some books. Today is where I talk to you about my latest project: the first two books in my fantasy series Instruments of Sacrifice. In 2010, I saw a really, really bad adaptation of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. (I have since…
