If I collected all the reviews I’ve written over the years, I would probably have enough to make a novel. But when I don’t record what I read somehow, I pick up books that I’ve read before from the library or the bookstore or whatever.  I do.  I seriously do, especially series books and nonfiction. […]

Ta-daaa!  This cover has now been branded 🙂  You can pick it up at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, or Smashwords.  First published at Silverthought Online. In other news, Ray has approved “Guinea Pig Apocalypse” with minor changes.  I hope to get Haunted Empire up as an ebook this week, but we’ll see – I’m also

You can get it at these online retailers, with more to come: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, or Smashwords. A Ghost Unseen DeAnna Knippling The realtor told her the house was haunted by the ghost of a four-year-old kid who’d drowned in the pool in the 1960s. But that’s not why she bought the house: she’d bought it because the

Writer Friends in COS/DEN area: I want to try something weird, a collaborative novel project using a particular technique. The specifics (like genre) will vary on who/how many/where the people are who want to jump in. I want to run this something like a writer group, where we meet for a couple of hours and

Here are this week’s cover updates! Zombie Girl Invasion. Not just girl germs…Zombie Girl germs! and… Attack of the 50-Foot Sushi Monster.  Sometimes playing with your food can be deadly! In other news…I am printing out Guinea Pig Invasion for my daughter Ray to read and approve, so I probably won’t get the ebook up this week.

You can get it at these places, with more to come: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords. Red Meat Riding Hood by DeAnna Knippling Once upon a time…in some very strange woods indeed. Once upon a time in a forest so far away as to be entirely unlike the forests that you get around here, a little girl realized that it was

You can get it at these places, with more to come: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords. Red Meat Riding Hood by DeAnna Knippling Once upon a time…in some very strange woods indeed. Once upon a time in a forest so far away as to be entirely unlike the forests that you get around here, a

Now that I have been through an excellent covers class from Dean and Allyson…I am building new covers!  And cleaning up outdated ebook files!  And doing pretty things with fonts!  Starting from oldest to newest…here are the two I have done so far: I’ve moved “A Fly in Amber” from my name to Diane’s…little did

Congratulations to everyone who entered the contest!  Here were the rules, which I put up at the Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference: Do you have what it takes to write a perfect short story?  Me either.  So we’re not going for “Great.” We’re going for “Done.” Rules: Your character is an insecure traveler who is obsessed

Right, at the last minute I decided to not submit to my own contest, but to just write for it using the same parameters.  I’m itching to write something fun and fast today, and I don’t have a lot of time.  We’ll see how it goes. Anyway, here’s my steps: 1) Pick genre (and market).