A Contemplative Life

Another shot from the book cover photo shoot, snapped last Monday south of Ukiah, California. More rightly: for being able to translate what comes from my heart onto the computer. That's all I do, although nineteen years into this gig, I'm WAY better at it than when I started, LOL. I'm going through the last scroll of Home and Far Away . Found one misspelled word that was underlined in red: scrambed instead of scrambled . Major facepalm emoji averted (though other missed typos probably remain, sigh)! But as I scroll, I am inundated with the thrill of all that being an author entails. Such joy for the ability, wonder at how it all comes together, appreciation for the tenacity to keep doing it. Further gratitude for the outlet to publish independently. And an overwhelming giddiness of a long-held dream once again being made into reality. One last excerpt, then back to scrolling. Hoping to upload this novel this evening. Main message of this post: Don't give up on your dr...

I've spent much of this day prepping my next novel for release. Brave the Skies: The Hawk Book Two has been published tonight! As it takes Smashwords/Draft2Digital several hours to get a newly published novel onto the Smashwords store, I have chosen to upload a new book in the evenings, Pacific Daylight (or Standard) Time, then happily find my story the following morning. Publishing novels isn't an earth-shattering experience, although writing a book and getting it to this stage takes much time, work, self-belief, and assistance from those who have been in my corner for the last thirteen years of indie publication, over seventeen years on my overall authorial journey. For seventeen years I have actively written/revised fiction, and despite the writing feeling a little thin recently, I have been heavy into edits both for The Hawk and The Enran Chronicles . Two series at one time is indeed a LOT of effort, taking away from time I'd love to craft a new story. After Brave the...