July 2011

Writing on my new #WIP starts today. With taking on more freelance projects, I’ve been doing a LOT less writing.  Funny…I have the time, all I need to do is cut back on dithering with emails, social networking, etc.  Same old, same old.  I’m going to install some wordcount tracking software on here next week […]

Now at Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, and OmniLit. Rain on someone else’s parade by getting your copy free this weekend using code PR29Rat Smashwords. Monsoon by DeAnna Knippling Imperfections only exist after you finish a project; until then, they’re opportunities.  After Randi finishes her latest project, she runs like hell and winds up at a ten-day Buddhist retreat in

Now at Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, and OmniLit. Rain on someone else’s parade by getting your copy free this weekend using code PR29R at Smashwords. Monsoon by DeAnna Knippling As Kate Jenkins pointed out, this book is Eat, Pray, Love for sarcastic people. Too old to flirt with the Norwegian meditation teacher.  Too young for

I would like to talk about a topic very near and dear to my heart today:  burnout. There are days that I crave the blessed mindlessness of a dayjob.  Show up, be a robot, go home.  Evenings and weekends that I spend without panicking that I’ve wasted five minutes doing…nothing. To be able to say,

Grammar books:  there are tons of grammar books that point out commonly misused words, punctuation, trivia, etc., like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Bill Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, or The Transitive Vampire (complete with hysterical examples and Victorianish line drawings).  And Joseph M. Williams’s dreamy Style:  Toward Clarity and Grace…no, I’m going to cut myself off

I have to start writing more reader-oriented blogs.  I keep writing author/publisher focus blogs.  Writing blogs directly intended for readers?  Terrifying.  Why?  I don’t know.  But it’s down in my gut, the feeling that I can’t do this, it’s stupid, etc.  Fear of failure.  I hate it.  I’d rather talk about the writing process instead

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Here’s the list of books that has made it over to the iBookstore: De Kenyon: A Picture is Worth 1000 Chomps Attack of the 50-Foot Sushi Monster Bunny Attack! Class Pet from Beyond the Grave Zombie Girl Invasion   DeAnna Knippling: Abominable A Fly in Amber Death by Chocolate Haunted Empire Mother & Child The

Check it out! Jeremy Martinson of Ponies Studios built a new cover image for my novella Haunted Empire. (Any problems with layout and font are mine, all mine.) Isn’t it gorgeous? Anyway, I put it on sale at Smashwords from today to the end of July for $1.50, using code SSW50.  A SF Adventure in the

Now on Sale at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon, and OmniLit. Feed your fear of snail mail by using coupon code SC54Q at Smashwords… Things You Don’t Want But Have to Take by DeAnna Knippling She hid from the thing for years, but it found her and came to her in a box with no real return address and her own handwriting