DeAnna Knippling

Black and White

Right, this has nothing to do with writing or promotion, except it does. There are some people who split the world up into twos, and some who don’t.  Optimist/pessimist.  Atheist/believer.  Yes/no.  Democrat/Republican.  Things like that. Me, I’ve come to look at those situations and go, “To what purpose?” To what purpose do we split the

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The Classy POD Checklist

Here’s my (ahem, draft) checklist for things that I look for when an indie publisher hands me a POD.  Please let me know if you can think of anything else; I’m putting this together for a class.  I think I may need to break things down into subcategories at some point… Cover Does the front

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Ill Edited In Lankhmar

Right, I’m trying to study “Ill Met in Lankhmar,” one of Fritz Leiber’s stories.  (Lie-burr…I’ve been saying it wrong.) I started with the collection Fritz Leiber: Collected Stories, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown, intro by Neil Gaiman (2010).  This edition is a hardcopy library property, and as I realized I wanted to study

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New Release: Alice’s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts #1

Now available at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, Gumroad, and more.  As usual, the upload to Apple via indirect channels is taking a while.  My apologies.   “That was before the serum that allows us to retain our presence of mind was invented, my dear Miss Alice,” Mr. Dodgson said, clearing his throat.  “Now, if one

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2014: What about Freud?

I was going to be all contrary and write about something that had nothing to do with the new year…but what I really want to write about are my goals. I forget where I read it, sadly, but I saw a blog criticizing the way most people set goals:  “as if Freud had never existed.”  Which

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Comps for Writers

I used to work at Wells Fargo in the Home Equity department as an auditor, so I had to learn the process backward and forward so people didn’t call me out for dinging the wrong things.  Fair enough. One of the things we did was look over appraisals.  In the appraisal, there were usually 3-5

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Anxiety.

What with all the ups and downs lately, I’ve had to deal a lot with depression. I mean, first I was going out of freelancing…now I’m not. You’d think that that was a good thing–and it is–but I think the change in hope vs. despair is what triggers depression for me, and it was a

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