Brianna Storm Hilvety

@bekks2017 Welcome to Story Embers! I enjoyed reading your introduction. You sound like an intriguing person. 😉

What a fantastic and fun question! 😎 I’m going to answer with how my dearest friend once described me during a late-night texting conversation: “the most un-level-headed, analytical person in existence.” I’m basically a paradox. I’ve ta…[Read more]

@ncstokes Haha! Thank you. I’m a professional editor, so I try to ward off typos and clunky writing with finesse. 😉

I agree; Emberians do sound like book guardians. 📚

@mnvalentine Welcome to Story Embers! 🙂

What’s the premise of your series, and are you going to be self-published or traditionally published?

@ajaj2000 I’m foremost a professional editor, so I don’t have any large writing projects in the works, but I did just finish a proofread for a client. 🙂

@ncstokes Welcome to Story Embers! The name that’s been floating around is Emberlings, but I personally prefer Emberians because it has a scholarly sound (like the Bereans). 😉

Sam has turtles camping with him because he borrowed some from Daeus, I believe. 😛

@esther-sears Welcome to Story Embers! Kudos for being brave and joining our community! You’ll find lots of helpful and encouraging people roaming around here. 😉

You mentioned that you’re an extroverted introvert. What personality type are you? I’m a fusion of an INFJ and INTJ. 🙂

What are some of your favorite fantasy books? That’s my favorit…[Read more]

@ajaj2000 A book review introduced me to a series Jody Hedlund had written about knights, which intrigued me because I’m fascinated by medieval times. I fell in love with her style after devouring those, so I started reading more novels by her.

Melanie Dickerson writes fairytale retellings—many of which are set in medieval times, so you can ima…[Read more]

@ajaj2000 If you like YA fantasy, The Door Within and Dreamtreaders trilogies by Wayne Thomas Batson would probably be right up your alley. 😉 I also highly recommend The Wilderking trilogy by Jonathan Rogers.

I used to read fantasy almost exclusively, but lately I’ve enjoyed reading some historical fiction novels by Jody Hedlund and Melanie D…[Read more]

@filewriter Welcome to Story Embers!

I just had to pop in and say that I like “Emberians” better than “Emberlings.” 😉 I hope that name catches on.

Honeschoolers are the best. I’m a homeschool grad. ☺️ What’s your favorite subject?

Welcome to Story Embers, @ajaj2000! We have a couple of other Aussies here, who I’m sure you’ll bump into soon. 🙂

What are some of your favorite books?

@mariposa I’m not sure whether the angry piguirrel, the girls glaring at Josiah for almost leaving us out of the adventure, or General Raspberry’s entrance is my favorite. 😂

@jenwriter17 No, we don’t have that feature here, and I’m not sure whether we have plans to add it. @josiah

@emerald-flyer Welcome to Story Embers! We can always use another INFJ around here. We rule the forum. 😉

If you like story contests, we’ll be launching our first one next week…and it will have prizes. 😀 I hope you’ll consider entering! I’ll be one of the judges.

@anne-of-lothlorien Allow me to be the first person to welcome you to Story Embers!

You’re an extrovert who doesn’t like strangers? Fancy that! 😋 I’m an introvert who loves people on some days, and prefers to hide in a hole on others. My personality type fluctuates between INFJ and INTJ, so I’m basically a paradox. 😉

What is one of your favorit…

@snapper

The fee an editor will charge depends upon whether the service you need is a proofread or a line edit/copyedit. A proofreader corrects typos and grammar/spelling/punctuation errors only. A line editor fixes some mistakes, as well as polishes your sentences, suggests stronger word choices, flags inconsistencies, and tightens the text.…[Read more]

Hey, @snapper. Congratulations on being so close to finishing your book! 😀 Unfortunately, my schedule is pretty full between helping to run Story Embers and editing for clients. I don’t even have much time to read for pleasure, which is tragic. 😭 But I hope you recruit some people and that the querying goes well!

@gabrielle We’ll be hosting our first story contest here at SE very, very soon. 😀 And there will be prizes. So keep your eyes peeled for that. 😉
I’ve heard of Spring Song Press, but I don’t personally know anyone who has been published in one of their anthologies. They seem to pay well though.

@snapper Congratulations! 😀 🎉 🎈How cool that you remember the exact day you started writing. I have no idea when I began scratching out ideas on paper. It’s been close to 15 years (although I tend not to count the first 5 because I wasn’t serious about it—or any good—at the time).

What I wanna know is where the protagonist of this story is. @josiah must have fallen into a snake pit…no, a poisonous frog pit. 😛

@joyofemberley Welcome to Story Embers! If you’re hoping to delve into fantasy, you’ve come to the right place. We have many fantasy writers and readers here. 😉