Your dedication and your desire to dive right in remind me of myself at your age. I didn’t successfully publish until I was 15 (which was still too early), but I knew what I wanted to do and I did it. And I get the impression you could readily do the same thing.

But since I have been there, I have some words of caution. Well, the first is…[Read more]

I’m going to be publishing on KDP Amazon self-publishing. I’ve never been published but I’ve gotten some good advice on how to use it. I’ve been told that you can set it up and have it ready in a week or less with kindle and under a month with paperback. I have written for magazines but was turned down sadly (clubhouse magazine).…[Read more]

That sounds like a good plan. Glad to be helpful!

Nice to meet you Abby. Btw, great name! I have 3 friends with that name so it must be popular.

Thanks for the advice. Good to know. I think I’ll wait until book 2 is mostly written just because it’ll help me plan out better the series.

First off – if the series is episodic (like Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys), go ahead and publish the first book! Since episodic series are tied together by the same characters or settings, they don’t need to be planned out to the last volume, especially since they are indefinite. They go on until the author is done! The same with…[Read more]

Glad to have been with you for this last part of your journey!

Oh, and if I officially get kicked off the forum (haha, just kidding), will I also no longer receive the emails? I wanna unsubscribe from those as well.

She’s part of this great group of young people who all love to write, but she’s discovered she is in a different phase of life and must move on. How can she exit the group?

Lol, all that was just for fun. I’m the main character and this is the group of writers. But ya, I’m in a new phase of life and need…[Read more]

How did you start writing?

I’m also working on my draft… almost done with my first edit and it’s taking forever! Mine is contemporary Christian romance/women’s fiction. I really don’t know the difference between the romance and women’s genre myself… they seem to blend into each other a lot. 🙂

I’m not an expert but I am good at some things things well and I sure know what not to do.

Here’s some of my top advice in no particular order or organization.

• I think it’s essential to market in a way you can enjoy. That’s the only way it will be sustainable. You may tell yourself “I will write one blog post a week!” or whatever it…

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Right now, my plan is to build my website and blog. Set up a newsletter (I have  my reader magnet ready). And try to keep up…[Read more]

sorry for the late reply.

lol. it was close. Most of the differences are just me being exceedingly nitpicky. =)

The differences:

– red scales instead of green

– the front fins are near perfect except the three fingers come straight out of the curve of the fin, so there is no hand-like connection between the fingers and the…[Read more]