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What Authors Need From You
So last month I released my SEVENTH book on modern witchcraft, Wicca Journal for Beginners, and I’ve gotten a TON of really great positive feedback on it. A big thanks and so much gratitude to everyone who took the time to leave me a review and say such nice things about it! I totally appreciate you! One thing that you may have noticed, if you follow me on any of my social media platforms, is that any time I release a new book, you’ll see a LOT of posts about it from me—usually in the two to four weeks leading up to the on-sale date, and then for a few weeks…
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The Good Witch’s Daily Spellbook
OMG YOU GUYS. I have some super exciting news! I’ve partnered with Sterling Publishing to create The Good Witch’s Daily Spellbook! This collection of 366 spells – one for each day of the year – is designed in a way that’s useful for both beginners and advanced practitioners. No fancy hard-to-find tools, no hours-long rituals, just magic on the fly when you need it – as it should be! I’m super excited about this project, and my editor, Chris Barsanti, is going to be an absolute dream to work with. TGWDSB will be out in December 2016, marketed in Barnes & Noble stores (Sterling is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BN),…
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Do You Want to Write Stuff? GOOD.
I get a lot of messages from people who have questions about writing stuff, and often those messages are along the lines of “I want to write a book, what do I do?” And that’s a pretty legitimate question, actually. What DO you do? I mean, obviously, you write, but how exactly does that work? Getting started is often the hardest part. I might stew on an idea for months before I actually commit words to paper laptop. So I thought I’d put together a few tips that I’ve shared with people in the past about writing – obviously, these are not rules, but more of a guideline, and they’re…
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High Expectations Are Your Friend
A few days ago, Amazon announced that e-books with excessive content errors – spelling mistakes, formatting problems, etc. – will be flagged with a warning when a reader goes to download the book, and authors across Teh Interwebz are shitting themselves. According to a blog post on Goodreader, beginning on February 3, “Amazon will begin showing customers a WARNING MESSAGE on the Kindle store detail pages of books that contain several validated quality issues.” The post goes on to say that the quality control – and make no mistake, that’s exactly what this is – will be a two-stage system. If a book contains a few small errors, the warning…
