Emma Walker

Nithel pants, leaning back against a large tree. Dust cakes his sweating body, and he looks around. Much of his long hair had slipped from its tie, and was pasted to his face and neck with dried sweat. He waited, listening to the darkness, but most is silent now except for small wind through the leaves. Hope dying… taking its last breath.

He…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf

Also, nice!!  He sounds like a fun character. AND HE’S 19?! that’s Quin’s age exactly!

Yay! He and Quin are going to get along so well! I bet they’ll like each other!

This is a good idea. I almost mentioned something along the same lines. If you give readers PDFs of short stories that they can download and read like ebooks, or even if you just have them somewhere easy to find on your site, that can work well.

@ashley-tegart

ConvertKit is a good newsletter service you might like! I’ve personally decided to go with MailChimp, but I have a few friends who use ConvertKit for their newsletters, and it works great for them.

I personally enjoy it when bloggers share short stories through newsletters. You could always have that as a little bonus at the end…[Read more]

1) I use MailChimp, but I’ve heard a couple of friends recently recommend Flodesk. All of my info about it is second-hand, but the folks I’ve heard from rave about it.

2) I don’t personally read short stories outside of book format very often. When I do I tend to read them on someone’s site where I’m not going to lose it if I put it off for a…[Read more]

@ashley-tegart

Yay! Someone who’s read The Space Trilogy! 😀 I love the series, but it seems to be one of Lewis’s more often overlooked works.

Ooh, you should definitely finish The Wingfeather Saga! The third and fourth books are a lot stronger than the first two, so if you liked the first two (or at least got through them), you’ll definitely…[Read more]

Thanks, Rose! 🙂

@rose-colored-fancy

@rose-colored-fancy

Thanks for the input.

Also, nice!!  He sounds like a fun character. AND HE’S 19?! that’s Quin’s age exactly!

Thank you for the recommendations, everyone! 🙂

@r-m-archer

I love The Space Trilogy! I also read the first two books of the Wingfeather Saga, but not the other two, so thanks for the reminder to finish the series! 🙂

@taylorclogston

I’m actually reading the old Thrawn trilogy now! I’m partway through the final book and have really enjoyed…[Read more]

I know nothing about this but I think @joy-caroline ,@joelle-stone , and @this-is-not-an-alien might be able to help you! Joy and Joelle have blogs with newsletters and Cathy is starting a newsletter!

And.. I have a bit of time so I can write another bit for Acyn and Sahar.

Acyn

Niarok, Lorcan, Quin and the other man with the long dark hair had disappeared into a far tunnel and it was getting colder fast.

I didn’t even think about following the advice to get close and wait to freeze to death.

I shivered and hurried along the walls, looking…[Read more]

@denali-christianson

I’M ALL FOR THE BETA-READS BRING THEM ON!!!!!!!!!!!

Yayy!!! *Puts you on the list for a future draft*

@calidris

What’s the current character limit in here?  I have a couple of characters I want to develop more, but I’m not ready to pull Misu out quite yet…

It’s cool! I don’t know how many characters we’re at but I don’t ca…[Read more]

That would be an awkward thing to change there 😂 but it still looks fantastic! Oh man I’ve never touched Photoshop before but it’s a really popular graphic design program and I’ve heard it in almost anything graphic design-related.

Alright! She’ll be very excited to read it, I’ll ask her if she can fill out the questions she’ll probably catch a…[Read more]

“…traumatically horrific-existential-crisis-in-a-box with a side of a malevolent menagerie?”

Peace settled over Jericho.  Peace she’d not had in a long time.  With a faint smile she began to fade away, gently laying a hand on Alessio’s shoulder to assuage as much of his anxiety as she could before she vanished.  And then she was gone.…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien I appreciate the advice, but unfortunately this is a premade cover and I can’t change anything more with paying a big fee. It does the job of saying “scifi” well enough, and I think that’s what I need it to do. I could adjust the typography by adding to it in Photoshop, but can’t replace it with different typography.

I got…[Read more]

Alessio was so. Done. With this.
And now the new girl had decided to be threatening and rude. Buuut. She was still on the other side of the cage.
“Get your weapon, Dom,” She snapped at–apparently–Dom, and they drew swords, naturally. So Alessio kinda sardonically backed a reasonable distance from the cage with the keys still in hand. Nithel would’v…[Read more]

@skylarynn

Ack! My bad *facepalms on desk which is conveniently in front of my face enough I can tell it’s a desk 😂😂*