Month: February 2019
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For #authors: #launch your #book with #socialmedia~ #DYI part 1
If you are like me you have a fair idea of how to write a book but nearly no clue on how to market it but there is a time when you have to hitch up your big girl or boy pants to do it. But what to do? Much of the advice on blogs……
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The Long Slow Slog of Life
So…. Been six months since I populated this space and … well, lots has happened. Real life has been an adventure. On a down note, health concerns for close family members have eaten up a lot of time. I’ve been helping with health care–which is a) exhausting and b) gives me new appreciation for health…
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February Roundup
I’ve been in a holding pattern this month, waiting for Beta readers of Sky of Souls to get back to me and otherwise working on story outlines. The post February Roundup appeared first on S P Stevens – Fantasy Author.
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Thank You, Awesome Teachers
What a blessing it is to have an awesome teacher. My schooling was riddled with fantastic teachers that I enjoyed and appreciated at the time, but it isn’t until many years later, now myself a teacher, that I truly recognize the impact they had on me. Let’s be honest, I don’t think a single one…
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Faux ad of Spire City: Banking!
Where do the people of Spire City go for their banking? Probably not here if they have the steampunk equivalent of a good credit score… But if not, this is the place to go. This is one of the ads that would have crossed multiple columns of the Spire …
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Lunhina: Status Report
I reached a milestone today that I felt warranted a quick post. After reworking my story early last year, I emerged with an outline for a 5-part story, with parts 1-3 roughly correlating to my earlier outlined material, and parts 4&5 rendering a proper conclusion, which was lacking in the early drafts. Today, I finished…
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Cities of Wonder copies have arrived
Doing print copies through KDP’s print-on-demand service (as with Createspace previously) always gives you this moment of wondering how the final product will look. You can examine the pdfs all you want, launch the viewer, order proof copies. But until…
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Wednesday Wanderings
Anatomy of an edit, different story: second (thousandth) verse, same as the first.I’m working through short story of mine now, Written In Stone … and I use the term “short story” loosely, because it originally clocked in a bit over 10k words.&n…
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Return of the Spire City ads
Lots of talk about ads today… Here are some very different kinds of advertising.It was roughly 11 years ago when I began the pre-writing for the Spire City episodes, dreaming up the characters, the effects of their terrible infections, and details of…
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“Chains” now available in Kzine!
Blink and you (… or at least I!) miss it: my story “Chains” is out in the current issue of Kzine! Check it out: Kzine (Issue 23)