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Is your local indy bookstore a good one or not? How do you know? I went to two bookstores over the weekend, while I was on the road, that ended up clarifying this for me.  I’ve seen the same types of things at other bookstores, both bad and good, but this trip solidified things for […]

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and OmniLit. This weekend, follow the Jennings brothers into Hell…using Smashwords code YK23B. Chance Damnation A Tale of the Weird West by DeAnna Knippling One little girl.  Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes.  Aloysius’s little brother Jerome goes missing with

Any sufficiently developed idea related to information theory that a writer may have for a story will lead to the Stephenson Conclusion, that is, “Neal Stephenson already wrote it.” I’m reading The Information by James Gleick.  It does not list Stephenson in the index, despite being so far a lengthy, step-by-step rehash of his books.

The saga continues…the theme of the day seems to be, “Point it out but don’t necessarily edit it to death.” Tense I’m not going to go into the fine art of selecting tenses much here; my goal is not to be a book on perfecting your style and grammar, but how to edit.  However, I

I now have books up at AllRomance/OmniLit, in PDF format only: DeAnna Knippling De Kenyon Kitty Lafontaine I attempted to use Calibre to convert other file types as well…oh, man.  That’s going to be quite the learning curve.  But that’s publishing for you:  behind every story that goes up at a different website, there’s a

The following book was not written by me, but by a family member.  Brittney’s her own girl 🙂  She really wanted to get the message out, in order to help people who are or have gone through a similar experience–loss of an unborn baby. The book is up for free on Smashwords here. Letters to

Now on sale at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and new!  Omnilit. Try to put it all back together using the coupon code VV54J. Family Gods by DeAnna Knippling The family god…the family curse. A young soldier returns from a war to bury his mother, only to find that his wife has betrayed him.  His rage doesn’t come

When I was doing tech editing, the first thing I would do was format.  One, I like formatting (so sue me), and two, I felt like it allowed me to get a feel for what was going to be in the document. Now, however, I do my text editing first and format editing second, on

I have reviews on “The Society of Secret Cats.” Julie says: I really enjoyed this – kind of like “Where the Wild Things Are” mixed with a bit of Lewis Carroll and a dash of J.R.R. Tolkien with the scary spider creatures. My only complaint really is that it seems almost like too big of

I have reviews on “The Society of Secret Cats.” Julie says: I really enjoyed this – kind of like “Where the Wild Things Are” mixed with a bit of Lewis Carroll and a dash of J.R.R. Tolkien with the scary spider creatures. My only complaint really is that it seems almost like too big of