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So you’re a kid and you want to be a writer.  Where do you start? 1) Find out what you like. Obviously, before you learned how to write, you learned how to read–by listening to your parents read stories to you or something like that. Listening to and enjoying stories tells you both what a

NaNoWriMo is coming up. For those of you who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month is a project that some guy, Chris Baty, and his friends just started doing one year.  Like all writers at one time or another, they decided to bite off more than they could chew. “Hey! Let’s write a novel in

Looking for something Halloweenish, with zombies, pirates, robots, ghosts, death, and other adventures for a middle-grader? Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion &  Other Stories by De Kenyon Now at Smashwords, OmniLit, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other online stores.  In print at CreateSpace.com. Ten tales of death, invasions from other realms, bullies, babysitters, liars,

Looking for something Halloweenish, with zombies, pirates, robots, ghosts, death, and other adventures for a middle-grader? Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion &  Other Stories by De Kenyon Now at Smashwords, OmniLit, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble. Ten tales of death, invasions from other realms, bullies, babysitters, liars, and the brave kids who fight back.

Looking for something Halloweenish, with zombies, pirates, robots, ghosts, death, and other adventures for a middle-grader? Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion &  Other Stories by De Kenyon Now at Smashwords, OmniLit, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.  (Still waiting on the iBookstore, Sony, and Kobo.) Print at CreateSpace. Ten tales of death, invasions from other

This came up with one of my clients recently. I hadn’t realized that this was stuff my clients wouldn’t know, but some of them are just starting out in ebooks, so I thought I’d put it in a more coherent format, to help me think it through. — Ebooks are different than print books; they’re

I get to talk at the Pikes Peak Romance Writers about indie publishing on October 23, and I’m trying to brainstorm a handout. Here’s a draft…   Want to put up an ebook but don’t know how?  (Or just want more facts before you make up your mind?) Here are the bare minimum steps you

Now on sale at Amazon.com, B&N, Smashwords, and OmniLit. The Edge of the World By DeAnna Knippling His best friend Felix kidnapped him on dragonback to make him go to his abuser’s funeral, then tried to blackmail him into abducting changlings for them—the same thing that had happened to him.    Fairies suck. Warning:  Strong language. There’s not much difference

Now on sale at Amazon.com, B&N, Smashwords, and OmniLit. The Edge of the World By DeAnna Knippling His best friend Felix kidnapped him on dragonback to make him go to his abuser’s funeral, then tried to blackmail him into abducting changlings for them—the same thing that had happened to him.    Fairies suck. Warning:  Strong language.

So you’ve written an ebook for kids 6-12 with a 6-12-year-old protagonist.  I may want to help you promote your book.  Why?  I’m having a great time reading and writing independent fiction, and I want to help independent authors brag up their good work. And find more good things for my daughter to read… See