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I have a new (standalone) Mindjack story for you! Originally published as part of the Telepath Chronicles, it has a new character (Zeph) and takes place in the Mindjack universe, in parallell to the trilogy.
available now
REVIEWS
"This story had me hooked by the first page."
"Fantastic addition to the Mindjack world!"
When everyone reads minds,
a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.In a world filled with mindreaders, Zeph is a mindjacker who wants to stay hidden—even if it means the cute mindreader in his Latin class is forever out of his reach. He locks and unlocks minds for a ruthless mindjacker Clan in exchange for protection and the chance to have a normal life with his parents and little sister. But when a girl he doesn’t know reveals the existence of mindjackers to the world, Zeph is forced to make a choice: unlock—and ultimately destroy—the mind of a young jacker changeling… or turn his back on everyone he loves.
The Locksmith is a short, standalone story (11,000 words or 44 pages). It can be read independently of the original Mindjack trilogy. It takes place in the same world as Kira's story (Open Minds), but Zeph walks on the darker side of the world of mindjackers and mindreaders. As you'll see in the note at the end of the story, I have big plans for Zeph in the future (but not until 2016, at least). here's more about Telepaths...
now available
Fourteen of today's top sci-fi writers share stories of the uncanny and unexpected.
REVIEWS
"highly recommend"
"amazing stories"
"I just want more"
"you don't have to read my mind to know how much I truly enjoyed this anthology"
Rynlee's Song (Daughter of Time, #1)
Release Date: 02/2015
Summary from Goodreads:
Rynlee Nalis is a demon hunter. She is a Purator, belonging to an organization who slay demons to serve their King. Even though she’s a candidate to succeed the High Purator, eighteen-year-old Rynlee doesn’t want the responsibility.
Her entire world is turned upside down when Jeynen shows up at the temple that is her school and home. She thought he died five years ago.
And he has no idea who she is.
When an assassin comes for Jeynen and he manages to flee for his life, Rynlee rushes after him. As she tries to discover the truth about him, she stumbles onto an ancient prophecy and challenges those who want to destroy the balance of magic.
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copy here! About the Author
This is the website of author Eliza Marie Jones. I’m a writer, gardener, nail polish junkie, and artist. I live with my husband in Alberta, Canada. I took website programming and graphic design in college, which comes in very handy doing all the non-writing parts of being an author.
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You don't have to be a robot from the future to get stuff done
There are approximately 1 billion tiny tips and tricks that indie authors use every day to make their lives easier - because, holy
Exploding Kittens, there's way too much to do when you're writing, formatting, publishing, social-media-ing all your own IP (Intellectual Product, in our case, books).
So here are my random Wednesday-morning tips. I'm not going to detail every minute thing about HOW to do these... I'm just giving you the heads up that these things exist. It's up to you to put it into action (I have wordcount targets to hit today!).
- Join An Author Group on Facebook - I get most of my latest tips from these amazing groups. Use wisely, because you can spend all your time in there discussing the latest dino porn breakout success, or you can actually find out useful stuff. Be cool and share - that's how these things work. Look for ones in your genre or at your level of experience (or with a smallish range). Pool resources in your author group. For a couple of mine, I recently set up a database to compare results from various ads (Bookbub of course, but also Midlist, Freebooksy, lots of others). Here's an example you can copy/use for your own group - make a copy of the form here.
- Affiliate Links - Use them. They're a pain, I know, but dude... free money. And part of running a business is leveraging your IP every way you can, and also diversifying your income so you can offset some of the ups and downs. Having affiliate links (to Amazon, and now iTunes) for your books means you will earn a little bit more each month. And it can add up... I usually make $50-100 a month. This month is more like $300 due to a special author event I was involved in.
- Smarturl - Use them. Smart URLs are redirectable (which bit.ly cannot do). Whole post about that here.
- Call To Action on Your Facebook Page - Just discovered these (FB is rolling them out). Now, your Facebook Page may go the way of the dinosaur soon (never know when FB is *actually* going to start charging for stuff, but they already limit visibility in lots of ways), but hey, as long as it's here... put an affiliate link in that call to action to your author page on Amazon. (see how this all starts to work together... ahhh...)
- 99 cent titles - if you write shorts or serials, put them in Kindle Unlimited. You will get $1.30 or more on a 99cent title that is actually *free* to your customer... say what? Free money, folks (at least until Amazon stops funding it or changes the rules). If you insist on going wide with your 99cent titles, then distribute them through D2D to get a 60% royalty instead of 35% (at least on B&N and Kobo). More on that here.
- Use Scrivener to Organize - this saves my life every day. I don't write in it, but I use it to organize my writing life... including marketing! A post like this one would go in my "look at it later" pile and I would get around to it on a "marketing day" devoted to just that. More on that here.
- Track Your Writing - the single best thing I did in 2014 (and continue to use) is a tracker to keep on target with my writing. All I do is put numbers in a spreadsheet, keep a running tally, and record my mood (or what's going on) for the day. But humans respond to what they measure, and tracking when you *don't* write can be as valuable as when you do. Here's what my spreadsheet looks like:
Write on, my friends!
Share your tips in the comments!
Pinterest and
Tumblr are becoming essential tools for me as a writer.
This has nothing to do with marketing (well, almost nothing) - rather, it's about the creation of the work in the first place.
Pinterest: Keeping Your Visuals TogetherIt started with my steampunk book - I needed a place to collect all the lush visual inspiration I was using to inspire the books (The Dharian Affairs trilogy -
first book free!). Pinterest was perfect because I could create a "board" for the series and keep them all in one place for later perusal. I make my boards public (protip: you can make them private if you need them to be sekrit), just to share with my readers as I was creating. I found a vibrant community of steampunk enthusiasts on Pinterest! And my steampunk board has been cited in more than one review, so I know readers are finding (and enjoying!) it as I have.
Reviews: I will occasionally post reviews on Pinterest, but I find saving tweets on Hootesuite about reviews (directing back to the reviewers) is more effective... plus it doesn't clutter up your board.
Tumblr: More Than Just VisualsTumblr is like Blogger and Twitter got together and had a baby: it's blogging content (anything from pure visuals to video to text missives pages long) but built to retweet (or "reblog"). I haven't done any actual blogging on Tumblr yet... just reblogging of cool content. And Tumblr is a Big Wide World... I found my way there because Pinterest just didn't have pictures like this:
Singularity is coming!
Tumblr and Pinterest Together
The problem with Tumblr is that it's a blog - content isn't organized, it's just one continuous long timeline. The problem with Pinterest is that the content isn't as diverse - lots of craft and fashion pictures, but not a lot of cyborgs. BUT... you can pin from Tumblr to Pinterest!
Aaaaahh!
So...
I take this image on Tumblr....
....and pin it to my Singularity board on Pinterest....
...and now I have all my stuff saved just where I want it (and for my Singularity readers to explore at their leisure -
book coming in March 2015!).
My life is good again.
(Also I'm spending way too much time looking at pictures instead of writing - but that's a separate problem.)
Tumblr is The Conversation
Pinterest is The Scrapbook
NOTE: I'm just beginning to explore Tumblr - if you're an expert, educate me in the comments as to all the cool ways I can use it.
Sometimes, especially when I'm struggling with a story, I have to write myself notes to keep myself on-track. For some reason, I write them in ALL CAPS. I'm not sure if I'm yelling at myself, drill-sergeant-style, or if I simply want to differentiate them from the rambling prose and notes on either side of these clarion calls in my manuscript. For RESTORE (Stories of Singularity #1) - which I'm polishing up to send out today - here are my notes:
WRITE THE STORY
GO BACK AND DO A VOICE EDIT – CLEAR OUT THE UNNECESSARY STUFF, TIGHTEN IT UP
LOOK OVER FIRST CHAPTER FEEDBACK FROM GROUP
GO BACK AND DO A TECH EDIT – ONLY ADD IN WHERE ENHANCES
WATCH BIG HERO 6
STAY TRUE TO YOUR OWN VISION
That last one - so important. No matter how far you are down the path, writer-friends, trust your own vision and work to make it show up on the page. If you don't fight for the vision of your work, no one will.
Something Bollywood Going On Here
Sonali Dev and
Susan Kaye Quinn met in a most unusual place:
Library Journal's Top 10 E-Romance List for 2014. Sonali's
A Bollywood Affair and Susan's
Third Daughter both made the list with their Bollywood-themed romances - something that was so cool, it cried out to be celebrated!
Scroll down to win some great Bollywood-themed prizes!
Contemporary and Steampunk Bollywood Romance
Mili Rathod hasn’t seen her husband in twenty years—not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be—if her husband would just come and claim her.
Bollywood’s favorite director, Samir Rathod, has come to Michigan to secure a divorce for his older brother. Persuading a naïve village girl to sign the papers should be easy for someone with Samir’s tabloid-famous charm. But Mili is neither a fool nor a gold-digger. Open-hearted yet complex, she’s trying to reconcile her independence with cherished traditions. And before he can stop himself, Samir is immersed in Mili’s life—cooking her dal and rotis, escorting her to her roommate’s elaborate Indian wedding, and wondering where his loyalties and happiness lie.
The Third Daughter of the Queen wants to her birthday to arrive so she'll be free to marry for love, but rumors of a new flying weapon may force her to accept a barbarian prince's proposal for a peace-brokering marriage. Desperate to marry the charming courtesan she loves, Aniri agrees to the prince's proposal as a subterfuge in order to spy on him, find the weapon, and hopefully avoid both war and an arranged marriage to a man she does not love.
Third Daughter is the first book in the Dharian Affairs Trilogy (Third Daughter, Second Daughter, First Daughter). This steampunk-goes-to-Bollywood (Bollypunk!) romance takes place in an east-indian-flavored alternate world filled with skyships, saber duels, and lots of royal intrigue. And, of course, kissing.
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Romance and Intrigue: Bollywood Style
This short Q&A with Sonali and Susan talks about marrying for love and writing romance!Q: Marrying for love is a modern, and in some ways Western, concept, but arranged marriages have a long and complicated history. How does your novel tackle the subject of arranged marriage?
Sue: Third Daughter is set in a fantasy world, but it’s a blend of cultures in the real one, including being an analog to India (both current day and some of the past). In the Dharian Affairs world, royal marriages have a history of being arranged for political purposes, but the general population of the countries marry for love. This leaves the titular Daughters with varying conflicts between marrying for duty and marrying for love – some embracing their arranged marriages, some fighting against it. The marriage dynamics of the three daughters in the trilogy (Third Daughter, Second Daughter, First Daughter) drive much of the story – along with political intrigue and skyships, of course!
Sonali: In India where I grew up arranged marriages are still very much a part of the fabric of the culture. Having said that, one of the most interesting and unique things about Indian society is how diverse it is within itself. While you still have communities and families who will give the marrying person absolutely no say in whom they marry there are those who don't believe their parents and families have any say when it comes to whom they choose to marry or live with, and then there is the rest of the sizable population who falls somewhere between those two belief systems. In A Bollywood Affair, Mili is from a tiny village from a very orthodox family and it is perfectly natural that her family would arrange her marriage. She would expect that. It wouldn't even strike a girl from her background that she could choose for herself. The age at which she was married isn't usual, though, but there is a reason why her grandmother gets her married that young. As for her being in love with her husband, again, the conditioning to be devoted to your husband is so ingrained in the culture that it would be strange if someone like Mili didn't love someone she believed was her husband.
Q: Whether set in a fantasy world or the modern one, romance is romance! There are many romance tropes – star-crossed lovers, lovers thrown together by circumstance, enemies turned lovers – what kind(s) of romance tropes does your novel contain?
Sue: My books are really a blend of romance and adventure, although the first book is a classic “lovers thrown together by circumstance” as Aniri (the Third Daughter) goes undercover in accepting a marriage proposal from the barbarian prince in the north in order to spy on him and determine if his country truly has the rumored flying machine that would upend the political dynamics in both their countries.
Sonali: Although I didn't set out to write it that way, several readers have pointed out that A Bollywood Affair is a Worldly Rake and an Ingenue Virgin trope. And now that I think about it, there's truth to that.
Q: Are you planning on writing more romances in this story-world? If so, tell us about it!
Sue: The Dharian Affairs trilogy is complete, but I’ve enjoyed writing in this east-Indian steampunk fantasy romance world so much, I’ve decided to do a follow-on trilogy from the point of view of a new character—a female tinker who has a grand invention that may change the world, but also is caught between the spy she might love and the spy she can’t resist. Those books likely won’t be written for a year or two, but I will cycle back to writing in this world in the future!
Sonali: The Bollywood Bride comes out next year and it's the story of a Bollywood star who comes home to Chicago after ten years to escape a scandal in Mumbai and comes face to face with the man she betrayed for stardom. And then there are two more stories I'm working on in the same series. Which isn't a series in terms of continuity or overlapping characters but because the stories are set in the same world and either the hero or the heroine work in Bollywood.
WIN BOLLYWOOD PRIZES
Paperback of Third Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #1)
The Dharian Affairs Trilogy in Ebook
2 Paperback copies of A Bollywood Affair
Handwoven Pashmina shawl from India
Sticker Henna Tattoos
Indian bangles (bracelets)
(all physical prizes are US ONLY; ebook is INTERNATIONAL)
Did you know the Mindjack Trilogy is available in German? And at special pricing for the launch of Closed Hearts - Gefährliche Hoffnung (Hazardous Hope) - only 0.99 USD/EUR!
$0.99/€0.99 $0.99/€0.99 April 9, 2015
Wenn jeder Gedanken liest, kann ein Geheimnis eine gefährliche Sache sein.
(When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.)
(Translation by Michael Drecker)
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Spezieller Einführungspreis!Für kurze Zeit nur 99Cent!Closed Hearts-Gefährliche Hoffnung(Mindjack#2)
and
Danke to German readers, book bloggers, and my translator Michael Drecker!p.s.
Foreign Rights - Want to know how Michael and I signed an innovative contract to produce this translation as a 100% indie book? Check out this post.
If you've been following my blog for a while, you know that Dark Omen (aka my son Adam Quinn) has been publishing his novels and novellas since he penned his first novel at age 12. Now, at age 16, he has a completed trilogy and, with today's release, two novellas under his belt.
Makes me wonder how I spent my time as a kid. (Hint: I was nowhere near as productive as Adam).
I'm especially proud of this latest work - it veers closer to YA than his previous MG work (let me tell you how fun it is as a mom to watch your child grow in craft as well as in real life), and
Operative is told from the POV of two strong female characters (Shicca and Taylor) in this high-adventure SF tale. All of Adam's works have his personal brand of humor, but this latest story dives a little deeper into character, making it more young adult than middle grade. Here's a snippet:
“I’m sorry,” Shicca said.
“Sorry?” Taylor had hardly expected thanks from Shicca, unless they were couched in a claim that Shicca could have escaped the GG herself, given enough time. The apology, though, caught her completely off-guard.
“Sorry for falling for a stupid trick.” Shicca sunk into one of the seats adjacent to Taylor. “Sorry for getting captured and forcing you to come out here and rescue me. Sorry putting the whole investigation at risk because I didn’t see an obvious double-cross coming.”
Taylor winced internally—she had never seen this side of Shicca, but perhaps that was because Shicca had never tripped up like this back when they worked together as Cavalieri. “Believe me, it was no big deal. You were only out of action for a few days, and they could not have interrogated you while you were asleep. It only cost five hundred Galactic dollars to free you, and I think you are worth a lot more than that to the Order.”
“Not if I get us captured,” Shicca said. “Or killed.”
“Which you will not.”
I'll let Adam tell you more about it... then see below for a summary of all his works. Or check out Adam's blog
here.
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Operative by Adam Quinn
Amazingly, it has only been four months since the release of
The Columbus Initiative and the completion of the Order of the Sky trilogy, and yet here I am, releasing my second novella,
Operative:
When the Order of the Sky's top operative is caught while undercover in the capital of the galaxy, Taylor Ghatzi is tasked with rescuing her and recovering the intelligence that led to her capture.
As can be guessed from the short description above, this novella (which, at ~20,000 words is slightly shorter than Project Exibluar) focuses on Taylor Ghatzi, a character who featured prominently in The Columbus Initiative. Within the chronology of the Orderverse, Operative takes place at the same time as the first half of The Undercover War---in fact, some of the events of The Undercover War impact the plot ofOperative and vice-versa. For those new to the Orderverse, I suggest that this novella be read betweenThe Undercover War and The Columbus Initiative, but it can be read as a standalone work as well.
Aside from the novella itself, this ebook also contains two Orderverse short stories, which are unrelated to the main plot of the novella. "The GR's War" takes on the perspective of a Cavalieri serving on Eekompski during the Order War, while "Eleven-Day Boom" tells the story of a Meltian day-trader in the wake of the Order War. Both contain Columbus Initiative spoilers.
Adam writes hilarious middle grade fiction that any young (or old) fan of Star Wars would enjoy, with strong female characters that make his mom proud. If you have kids, I encourage them to check out his books and see what a young writer is capable of, if they put in the time to finish a work, revise, and polish it.
Middle Grade Science Fiction
An elite government force crosses the galaxy in pursuit of an evil underground cult and discovers the Galactic Government they serve is filled with treachery.
Young Adult Science Fiction
After escaping the destruction of a mysterious prison-like facility without a memory to his name, ExibluarX must contend with the malevolent legacy of his unknown past and decide whether to pursue it or to forge his own course.
For more information on publishing your kid's work, see
this post.
WIN Reader's choice of a Dharian Affairs paperback!
The Third Daughter of the Queen wants her birthday to arrive so she'll be free to marry for love, but rumors of a new flying weapon may force her to accept a barbarian prince's proposal for a peace-brokering marriage. Desperate to marry the charming courtesan she loves, Aniri agrees to the prince's proposal as a subterfuge in order to spy on him, find the weapon, and hopefully avoid both war and an arranged marriage to a man she does not love.
Third Daughter is the first book in the The Dharian Affairs Trilogy (Third Daughter, Second Daughter, First Daughter). This steampunk-goes-to-Bollywood (Bollypunk!) romance takes place in an east-Indian-flavored alternate world filled with skyships, saber duels, and lots of royal intrigue. And, of course, kissing.
Giveaway runs 12/21 - 12/31
READING ORDER:
Third Daughter, Second Daughter, First Daughter
Third Daughter - FREE in ebook
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Second Daughter
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First Daughter
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WHAT THE REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
"I had high expectations for the finale. Those were exceeded!" V. Rundell
"First Daughter is the perfect end to an exciting story." - Susan Schleicher
"First Daughter is every bit as fantastic as the first two in the series. " - Leanna
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Debt Collector
Season Two
Episodes 10-18
Susan Kaye Quinn
Genre: Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist
Date of Publication:
Dec 15, 2014
ASIN: B00OF18W50
Number of pages: 500
Word Count: 125,000
Cover Artist: Steven Novak
Book Description:
What's your life worth on the open market?
In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more "worthy"... all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.
Wraith is a shadow in the night, haunting the bedrooms of the rich "high potentials" who have stolen life energy from the desperate and dying. The justice and the sweet mercy hit that follow keep her from falling into her own personal abyss.
Her secret nighttime work also keeps her on level for her real mission: carrying on her father's legacy of attempting to bring an end to debt collection as a whole. But when a mysterious debt collector interrupts her in the act and discovers her secret, everything Wraith loves may be destroyed by the one thing she can never fix-- the original sin of being a debt collector herself.
Contains mature content and themes.
Book Trailer:
"Wraith is amazing and just as compelling as Lirium--once again I'm hooked!!"
"I loved being back in this world! Wraith has captivated me."
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2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book Awards
The nine episodes of Season Two of the Debt Collector serial are collectively 127k words or about 468 pages.
It is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series.
There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together.
READING ORDER
Season One - Lirium
Episodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, Passion
Season Two - Wraith
Episodes 10-18 - Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement
Excerpt:
My new collection suit weighs less than a shadow on my skin, and my soft-soled boots don’t even whisper as I creep across the thick, yielding carpet of my target’s apartment. With the best bullet-resistant synthetics money can buy, the black curve-hugging suit makes me look more like female-special-forces than someone’s hot date for the night. It raised the bellman’s eyebrows, but an untraceable debit card got me waved through the lobby, no problem. Money buys a lot of things. Access to one of the highest-security luxury buildings in LA. A ninety-fifth-floor apartment high above the smog-soaked city, complete with all the clean air you can breathe. And the no-doubt illegal collection of ivory-handled daggers I passed on the way in. It’s too bad for data-mining mogul Adrien Odel that money can’t buy your way out of a blackened soul.
I know.
I’ve tried.
And tonight I’ve come to collect a debt he doesn’t even think he owes.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of Odel’s apartment, the city is lit up with a nighttime electric haze, the kind that makes it look seedy even in the high-rent district. It’s the perfect backdrop for a collection, and my suit is a black silhouette against it, a hole of death punched in the city’s twinkling lights. The high-tech fabric clings to me like the original sin I can never expiate, the one every debt collector is born with: the ability to deliver death with the slightest touch. We traffic in it, surround ourselves with it, and can never escape it.
Not that I haven’t tried that, too.
But even a short three-week dry spell away from collecting has me needy as all hell. The craving for a life energy hit claws at my back, and every step across the carpet amps up the desire. Even the possibility of Odel pulling a gun and shooting me dead hypes the thrill a little. My palm aches in anticipation—for the justice and the high that comes with it—but I take it slow, watching the placement of my feet and checking the windows. Along one edge, next to a mile-wide screen and some pretentious artwork, there’s a control panel. Only the rich want windows that open in the city, but it’s a bonus for me, especially given the windows face the broad expanse of the skyline and not the high-rise next door.
As I check out the control panel, the high-rise becomes a peep show. A woman’s naked body is pressed against the glass, exposed to the city’s onlookers as a man clutches her bare skin and makes love to her. I’m transfixed by the way they move, skin against skin, without care for the contact or the watchers. In a moment, they’re gone. Maybe reason broke through the passion. Maybe the glass was cold, in spite of the perpetual heat of LA.
Regardless, the image holds me hostage.
Having a lover isn’t something that’s part of my future. Or my present, for that matter. But that doesn’t stop the base need from surging up, usually at the least convenient of times. Then a different image—a cold, pale specter from my past—crawls out of the dark corners of my mind and reminds me I’m not the kind of woman who gets to have a normal life. I’m the kind who takes life and then gives it away. And the ecstasy of that is the closest I’ll ever get to the normal kind again—so it had better be good enough.
I couldn’t stomach even that pleasure for a while, not after what the debt collectors did to my father. I managed a whole three weeks without a single collection. But in the end, it’s the only thing that keeps me stable. And I’ve had a severe lack of stable ever since my father’s death nearly tore down the teetering scaffold of lies that comprises my life. That’s when the abyss reared up and stared me full in the face. Will-power alone wasn’t enough to stop it—the darkness just opened its maw and threatened to swallow me whole. At least that would have put an end the torment… but I couldn’t let the sin of who I am destroy everything my father had worked for. That we had both worked for. So here I am, dressed like a phantom, stalking the rich to give to the poor. With a tremor in my hands that’s more than a little unsettling. For better and worse, it’s the one thing that keeps me out of that dark place and gives me hope that one day I might redeem everything I am and everything I’ve done.
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Debt Collector Season Two will be here on Monday! BUT FIRST... I have a couple amazing box sets to share with you - one that includes Debt Collector Season One!
TWELVE URBAN FANTASY NOVELS... in ONE BOX SET!
99cents
An outright steal!
**INCLUDES DEBT COLLECTOR SEASON ONE**See
my tiny name there at the back? I snuck in when no one was looking.
If you haven't bought
Debt Collector Season One, now's the perfect time - plus in the
Heroes & Shifters Urban Fantasy Box Set, you'll get a total of 12 Urban Fantasy novels about shifters, sorcerers, witches and wizards, mages, ghost hunters, angels, demons, mutants, fairies, and... debt collectors! (I've always thought of debt collectors as a modern vampire, pulling life energy from people in a literal, rather than figurative, sense). These are top-selling authors, so I know you're going to get some amazing stories (besides mine)!
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HELP MY FRIENDS MAKE THE NYTIMES BESTSELLER LIST
I have a ton of friends in this Fantasy Box Set (Annie, Edward, David, C. Greenwood, Daniel, Megg, Terah) and it's been selling like crazy! In fact, they're SO CLOSE to making the NYTimes Bestseller list with this, it's not even funny.
For only 99cents, you can push them over the top
and get 14 EPIC Fantasy stories as well.99centsAmazon, B&N, Kobo, iBooksComing on Monday.... Debt Collector Season Two! Pre-order now to have it drop on your Kindle at midnight!If you're reading episode-by-episode, the final installment will ALSO drop on Monday!
click on covers to get episodesSeason Two
I have TWO blog tours coming up! The first is a release day blast of Debt Collector Season Two (12.15) - it will include paperback giveaways. The second is a tour with Sonali Dev (The Bollywood Affair) for my bollypunk/steampunk romance (Third Daughter) on 1.19-1.23 - and will include review copies, paperback giveaways, and great Bollywood prizes. Check out the sign-ups below! I hope you will join us!
Enchantress Book Tour - Release Day Blast - 12.15
Includes rafflecopter giveaway of
paperbacks of Debt Collector
12.15.14
includes Bollywood giveaways and review copies
Jan. 19th - 23rd
Rated two of the Top 10 E-Romances by Library Journal, Bollywood Affair author Sonali Dev and Third Daughter author Susan Kaye Quinn are hosting a joint Bollywood Giveaway Blog Event! We will be giving away books, scarves, Indian jewelry, and henna-tattoos! Also available: Q&A with Sue and Sonali about Love and Arranged Marriage, as well as review copies of Third Daughter. Sign up below to host the event on your blog on Jan. 19th - 23rd!
Thanks so much for helping spread the word about these books!
I'm a big fan of Scrivener - it's an indispensable and inexpensive tool for professional writers (or heck, any writers, but ones who plan to make money from their work? You need this.).
See the taglines above? Outline. Edit. Storyboard. Write. I only use Scriv for one of those (Outline), and yet it's still incredibly valuable. Let me say that another way...
I use less than 10% of Scrivener's capability, and it's still incredibly useful.
Quick and Dirty
Sometimes people get overwhelmed with the mere idea of opening and learning Scrivener. I get this. I really do. Which is why I recommend starting really simple:
Step One: Watch this 10 minute Scrivener Get Started Tutorial (heck, I would listen to this for ten minutes just to hear Keith's adorable accent, but as a bonus, you will actually learn the basics of how to open up a new project and move around Scriv, using the basic features)
Step Two: Open Your own Scrivener project for your current WIP
Step Three: ???
Step Four: PROFIT!! (where "profit" = "reap the organizational benefits")
Seriously, it's pretty much that simple.
I don't compose my books in Scrivener. I don't format them or storyboard them or write out of sequence and rearrange my chapters in Scriv. I did use it once to format a screenplay, which was pretty rocking, but that's as crazy cat as I've gotten. Scrivener is capable of doing all these things and more... I just simply don't use it that way.
I use it to organize.
Before you say, "But I have Evernote and notebooks and my awesome collection of sticky notes, real and virtual! I have a system already!"... I'm willing to bet you virtual donuts that whatever your system is now, it's not as powerful as using Scrivener.
Let me convince you with examples.
Using Scrivener for Research
For each book/series, I have one Scrivener file where I keep everything related to that book: images for cover art, names of characters, outlines, research notes... everything.
Mindjack Scrivener File
The key is having folders and subfolders that hold everything from links to images to text.
Totally a water pumping station waiting to be taken over by rebel mindjackers, don't you think?
Some of the ways I use Scriv for research
- storing images that give visual inspiration
- storing links to research material
- brainstorming plot lines
- checklists for revisions
- notes during conferences
- general plans for story development
- character names/bible
As you can see, I basically use it as an organizational tool - a way to keep everything book-related in one place. This is incredibly helpful when coming back to write the NEXT book in a series, especially when I've taken off a year or more from writing in that universe. I can quickly look up what the plasma lights in Mindjack were based on, or where did I get the design specs for the skyship in Dharian Affairs, or where are the links to that 1940's recording of submariners calling out their stations that I used in creating a mariner feel in that one scene?
This saves time. And sanity.
Using Scrivener for Marketing
Just yesterday, I finally put 2 and 2 together and came up with PROFIT!!! for organizing my marketing for all my books as well. I have a lot of books - moreover, I have a lot of book series, often in different genres. Keeping track of marketing for all those different books is... complicated. I'm constantly evaluating which ads work best, what new strategies there are for capitalizing on Amazon's algorithms, where the good blog tour companies are (and for which genres), etc. And those are just the general market-driven ideas. Then there's specific campaigns for individual books/series, new approaches to try. Heck, just keeping track of what I want to submit to Bookbub next takes a whole text file to itself, cross-coordinated with all my series. And trying not to lump up too much at once (hello, releasing two books at the same time? Really not a good thing for my sanity) requires that all of this work together.
Add in that I spend most of my time writing (logged 500k written words in 2014), and I was starting to lose my mind with juggling the marketing for all the different series/books I have.
Then the brain spark hit: use Scriv and your life will be better (that's about the sum of my thought, too).
First, I have an old-school paper calendar that I use to cross-coordinate everything. This way, on any given day, I know what I have to do to keep the wheels on.
releases, ads, and uploads, oh my!
Old school, in pencil, mostly
Actually, the calendar comes last, gleaned from all the work within my one central Scrivener file for all my marketing efforts.
Marketing File for ALL MY BOOKS
This page is for Mindjack. That series is OLD... and yet, still marketing it. #IndieFTW
In my Marketing File, I have my Overall Plan, a page for each advertiser with notes on how well they performed, blog tour organizers, and a page for each book/series that has a detailed chronology of what I've done vis-a-vis marketing, and what the overall thoughts/plans are. This way I can quickly stash an idea I have for marketing the Dharian Affairs books ("hey, these are really sweet romances!") then come back later to pull it all together in some kind of plan - I usually try to have one dedicated day a month for financial/marketing stuff, when I tally up sales, make plans for the month, pay my translator, etc. I'll execute on marketing throughout the month (see the paper calendar above), but the planning part, I try to keep to that once-a-month day. Or else, I spend all my time on that and not writing. And I have LOTS of plans for writing, so that has to get done.
{Note: I also have a page just with notes on stuff to check out later (just today, I got wind of a post on the
affiliates program on iBooks - so I stashed the link in a text file so I can come back later to check it out).}
AND THAT'S IT.
This post is already too long, and this is supposed to be the SHORT post to get you up and started. Actually, I really just wrote it for Jessica Keller. The rest of you are just reaping the benefits of this tweet:
Write on (and organize) my friends!
Wow, I can hardly believe Season Two is almost done! All nine episodes are written... a few more edits and uploads... and the complete box set will release 12.15! I've lined up a couple blog tours, so if you would like to help get the word out about the release of Season Two, check out the sign-ups below! Meanwhile Season One is still on sale, and the latest release (Judgment) is out!
CLICK HERE to win an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of Season Two
If you're traveling for the holidays, or just enjoy audiobooks, enter my quickie one-day giveaway (ENDS TONIGHT, Tues at midnight EST).
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Check out the selection of my audiobooks below - there's something for everyone in the family!
FOR THE KIDS
Faery Swap on Audiobook
Warrior faeries can be very stubborn.
Especially when they possess your body.
Fourteen-year-old Finn is tricked into swapping places with a warrior faery prince and has to find his way back home before the dimensional window between their worlds slams shut.
I've been gushing for a while on Facebook about the narrator for the Faery Swap audiobook - he NAILS the Ancient Irish Faery and British accents as well as the California Skater kid accent. Just love, love, love Mark Mullaney's work on this book!
Listen to a sample here.FOR TEENS, SCIENCE FICTION FANS
AND ANYONE WHO LIKED HUNGER GAMES
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.
Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore can’t read minds in a telepathic world, but soon discovers she can control them instead... and is slowly dragged into an underworld of dangerous mindjackers.
Kelly Shane's rendering of Kira is dead-on, and I love that the trilogy is now complete - so once you get started, you don't have to stop! Listen to a sample here.
SOMETHING DARK AND SEXY FOR THE GROWN-UPS
URBAN FANTASY WITH A CYBERPUNK TWIST
What's your life worth on the open market?
The Debt Collector serial is a dark and gritty future-noir about a world where your life-worth is tabulated on the open market and going in debt risks a lot more than your credit rating.
Mature Themes and Content
Virtually any device you own will play digital audiobooks (Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, Android phone, iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, Android tablets, even your PC or MP3 player). All you have to do is
download the Audible App for your device and BOOM you are listening to audiobooks. EASY PEASY. Check out my blog post on
how to buy, download, and listen to audiobooks for more information.
Happy Thanksgiving to my American Reader-Friends!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
I'm putting Season One of Debt Collector on sale from now until the end of Season Two! (Hint: this gives you plenty of time to scoop up Season One, read it, and still pre-order Season Two before the holiday madness sets in.)
I've been indie published for three years, ever since this baby came out:
Published 11.2011
I'm no Hugh Howey, but I hang with some pretty high roller indie types, and with 45 titles on Amazon (what? how did that happen?), I know a few things about indie publishing. Enough that I wrote a book to help first-timers get their start in the wild and rollicking indie world.
published 10.2013
4.8 out of 5 stars on
Amazon with 55 reviews
still relevant today but second edition coming in 2015
The ground is constantly shifting in indie land, so launching a new career (or even a new series) in 2014/15 is going to be different than when I started out. But as I watch new authors start their careers, and launch new series myself, much remains the same. And I'm learning new strategies all the time. Data, people! I loves it.
To celebrate my Three Year Indie-versary, I want to share some of those insights with you! So I'm offering up consults for two writer-friends who are indie published (or soon-to-be).
WHAT: A consult on how to grow an author career with your works
WHEN: At our mutual convenience, via email
WHO SHOULD ENTER: Anyone who has indie published, or soon plans to, and wants honest feedback from an experienced indie-published author on how to boost their author careers and achieve their writerly goals.
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Tracy Tam: Santa Command
Synopsis:Tracy Tam doesn't really believe in Santa Claus, at least not like the rest of us do. She also doesn't believe that Santa can possibly deliver all of those presents in one night, to children around the world, without a little help from science. A flying sleigh can only be powered by jet engines, after all, and Santa’s magical abilities can only be the result of altered DNA. How else could he know what every little girl and boy wants for Christmas and who has been naughty or nice? In order to test her theories, Tracy sneaks onto Santa’s sleigh then ends up at Santa Command, where a team of (gasp!) humans monitor Santa’s big night. When Tracy attempts to hack into their computers, she accidentally introduces a virus into the system. As a result, three states get knocked out of sync with the rest of the world (oops!). Santa won't be able to deliver all the presents in time! Now, Tracy must fix time and help Santa, but she has no idea how. How can a girl who doesn't believe help Santa and save Christmas before it's too late? With a little Christmas magic, of course! She just has to believe.
Tracy Tam is a middle grade book aimed at ages 8-12.
About the author:Krystalyn spent thirteen years working at Walt Disney World in a variety of roles: entertainer, talent coordinator, and character captain. Her degree in theatre as well as many, many hours spent in a dance studio, helped with her job there. Her various other day jobs have included working in zoology at Sea World, as an elementary teacher, and currently as a support technician for a website. In the evenings, she does mad writing challenges with her sister, who is also an author. Krystalyn lives near Orlando, Florida with her husband, son, a were cat, and a Yorkie with a Napoleon complex.
With six episodes written and four released, Debt Collector Season Two is humming along. For TWO DAYS ONLY you can get the first episode of the second season (Wraith) FREE, as well as win ALL the episodes released so far. See below for details!
Get started on...
Season One
**All episodes are free for Kindle Unlimited subscribersreleases 12.15Join the Debt Collector Facebook Group for all the play-by-play as I write the series!If you are in Kindle Unlimited... ALL the episodes are free! Click on links below!
READING ORDERSeason One - Lirium (Episodes 1-9:
Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, Passion)
Season Two - Wraith
10 -
Wraith (10.20) FREE FOR TWO DAYS
11 -
Specter (10.27)
12 -
Menace (11.3)
13 -
Temptation (11.10)
14 -
Shattered (11.17) pre-order
15 - Penance (11.24)
16 - Untitled (12.1)
17 - Untitled (12.8)
18 - Untitled (12.15)
BOX SET (Vol 10-18) - (12.15)
The Telepath Chronicles releases today! Don't miss the Facebook Party with TONS of prizes, including Mindjack paperbacks and audiobooks.
now available
Fourteen of today's top sci-fi writers share stories of the uncanny and unexpected.
REVIEWS
"highly recommend"
"amazing stories"
"I just want more"
"you don't have to read my mind to know how much I truly enjoyed this anthology"
Let me introduce you to Zeph...
The Locksmith (Susan Kaye Quinn)In a world filled with mindreaders, Zeph is a mindjacker who wants to stay hidden—even if it means the cute mindreader in his Latin class is forever out of his reach. He locks and unlocks minds for a ruthless mindjacker Clan in exchange for protection and the chance to have a normal life with his parents and little sister. But when a girl he doesn’t know reveals the existence of mindjackers to the world, Zeph is forced to make a choice: unlock—and ultimately destroy—the mind of a young jacker changeling… or turn his back on everyone he loves.
The Locksmith takes place in the same world as Kira's story, and unfolds in the time period right at the end of Open Minds, but Zeph walks on the darker side of the world of mindjackers and mindreaders.
GIVEAWAYS!
KINDLE PAPERWHITE
pre-loaded with Telepath Chronicles and Robot Chronicles
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Paperback of Telepath Chronicles (US ONLY) ENTER HERE
Mindjack Paperbacks (readers' choice - US ONLY) ENTER HERE
Full Mindjack Trilogy in paperback (US ONLY) ENTER HEREMindjack audiobooks ENTER HERE Facebook party runs from 5-11pm EST Friday 11.7I will be hosting from 8-9pm EST
Come talk telepathy, SF, and all kinds of science of the mind!
JOIN NOW
Sometimes I have LOTS of good things all going on at once! This is one of those weeks. First a summary, then more details below...
SUMMARYNEW RELEASE: Faery Swap on Audiobook! Get it here and enter the giveaway (below)
NEW RELEASE: Telepath Chronicles! Pre-order here and
join the FB party 11.7GIVEAWAYS: Telepath FB party FRIDAY -
Win Mindjack paperbacks!
NEW RELEASE: Menace (Debt Collector 12)! Get it here or
get the first episode freeFAERY SWAP
Now on Audiobook!(HINT: if you purchased the ebook, you get a discount on the audiobook!)
SHARE ON FACEBOOKI've been gushing for a while on Facebook about the narrator for the Faery Swap audiobook - he NAILS the Ancient Irish Faery and British accents as well as the California Skater kid accent. Just love, love, love Mark Mullaney's work on this book!
Listen to a sample here. To celebrate the release of the audiobook,
I'm giving away 10 audiobooks and 2 paperbacks. Enter below!a Rafflecopter giveawayTELEPATH CHRONICLES
releases FRIDAY 11.7
Pre-order now
I have a
NEW Mindjack story coming out in The Telepath Chronicles! So excited about this, I can't even tell you. This is just a short story, but it has an entirely NEW Mindjack character, not seen in the original trilogy... and he could well spawn an new trilogy of post-Mindjack novels (2016+).
Let me introduce you to Zeph...
The Locksmith (Susan Kaye Quinn)In a world filled with mindreaders, Zeph is a mindjacker who wants to stay hidden—even if it means the cute mindreader in his Latin class is forever out of his reach. He locks and unlocks minds for a ruthless mindjacker Clan in exchange for protection and the chance to have a normal life with his parents and little sister. But when a girl he doesn’t know reveals the existence of mindjackers to the world, Zeph is forced to make a choice: unlock—and ultimately destroy—the mind of a young jacker changeling… or turn his back on everyone he loves.
I didn't plan on writing any new Mindjack stories... then I fell in love with Zeph. The Locksmith takes place in the same world - practically the same neighborhood - as Kira's story, and unfolds in the time period right at the end of Open Minds, but Zeph walks on the darker side of the world of mindjackers and mindreaders.
For now, The Locksmith is EXCLUSIVE to The Telepath Chronicles!
In THE TELEPATH CHRONICLES, fourteen of today's top sci-fi writers share stories of the uncanny and unexpected. Edited by David Gatewood (
Synchronic Time Travel Anthology,
The Robot Chronicles), this new anthology explores the ramifications of a future where telepathy is real. From that first glorious moment of discovery, to the subsequent jealousies and class divisions, to the dangers of weaponization and the blessings of medical miracles, The Telepath Chronicles promises to take you inside the creative minds of some of today’s top science fiction authors.
Pre-order The Telepath Chronicles
Join the Facebook Party Friday
(hint: I will be giving away Mindjack paperbacks! Join NOW, come back on Friday to WIN!)
Season TwoPRE-ORDER the full Season Two on Kindle
releases 12.15Join the Debt Collector Facebook Group for all the play-by-play as I write the series!If you are in Kindle Unlimited... ALL the episodes are free! Click on links below!
READING ORDERSeason One - Lirium (Episodes 1-9:
Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, Passion)
Season Two - Wraith
10 -
Wraith (10.20)
11 -
Specter (10.27)
12 -
Menace (11.3)
13 -
Temptation (11.10)
14 - Shattered (11.17)
15 - Untitled (11.24)
16 - Untitled (12.1)
17 - Untitled (12.8)
18 - Untitled (12.15)
BOX SET (Vol 10-18) - (12.15)
- Use Smarturls - the ability to redirect your links at any time will save you from the crazies
- Know your genre - are serials common in your genre? Six episodes released every two weeks is common in sexytimes romance. Another common pattern is three longer episodes every 2-4 weeks. SF doesn't have many serials - so all bets are off there. For Season One of Debt Collector, I released 9 episodes every two weeks. For Season Two, it's 9 eps once a week - why? Because I want to get to the end sooner! Mainly because SF readers wait for the box set. In romance, readers are more enthusiastic about reading ep-by-ep.
- Set a schedule
- Use-preorders
- Cliffhangers are okay - if you don't want to use them, good on you. But they're part of the form, so don't think you're cheating if you do.
- Covers still sell - Unique covers are cool, but using the same image with different titling can save on cost. I would pay for a professional cover either way.
- Novels still sell better - for most genres. Romance seems to be the one exception to that rule.
- Serials are difficult to advertise - Bookbub won't take them, and many other ad places have a minimum size (less so now, though).
- Set your first episode free - one of the great advantages of a serial is having this 24/7 ad of your series on the free list.
- Don't be afraid to release Ep1 and Ep2 at the same time - with the first one free! This can be a great way to get the serial started.
Great news! Third Daughter was listed by Library Journal as one of their Top 10 e-romances for 2014! Also listed in the top 10 was Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev! This was too much of a good thing to pass up, so Sonali and I are celebrating with a Bollywood giveaway!
We would love to have your blog participate!
We will be giving away books, scarves, Indian jewelry, and henna-tattoos! As well as having a quick Q&A about Love and Arranged Marriage.
SIGN UP HERE to host the event on your blog on 11.4.14, and we will send you the HTML!
Season Two
PRE-ORDER the full Season Two on Kindle
releases 12.15Join the Debt Collector Facebook Group for all the play-by-play as I write the series!If you are in Kindle Unlimited... ALL the episodes are free! Click on links below!
READING ORDERSeason One - Lirium (Episodes 1-9:
Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, Passion)
Season Two - Wraith
10 -
Wraith (10.20)
11 -
Specter (10.27)
12 -
Menace (11.3)
13 - Temptation (11.10)
14 - Shattered (11.17)
15 - Untitled (11.24)
16 - Untitled (12.1)
17 - Untitled (12.8)
18 - Untitled (12.15)
BOX SET (Vol 10-18) - (12.15)
Bezleton sits at his desk in the interplanetary weigh station known as
The Unemployment Office interviewing job candidates. He folds four of his six legs under the desk to make the human interviewees less nervous, but he has a wicked rash behind his left bulbous eye that requires scratching on a regular basis. He's alert for who this will make uncomfortable.
Candidate #1 enters clutching a stack of galleys of her latest novel.
Bezlegrub: So your resume says you're an author?
Candidate#1: That's right. I think it's important to distinguish between authors and mere writers -
Bezlescratch: Next!
Candidate#1: Don't you want to see my awards?
Bezlenuf: *waves pincer* Move along, please...
Candidate #2 strolls in wearing an all-black uni-suit that renders him almost invisible.
Bezlewhat: I'm sorry, this interview is for the position of World Builder. Are you perhaps here for the position of Actuarial Assistant next door?
Candidate#2: Of course not! My last novel went to auction and earned a six figure advance! Don't you know who I am?
Bezleitch: Well, I can barely see you...
Candidate#2: Oh that's just the suit. This old thing, I just throw it on whenever I leave the house. Which isn't often. I need my space, you understand. My unadulterated space. Don't infringe on my space, dude!
Bezleright: Um, understood. So this six-figure advance novel that you've written... does it have substantial worldbuilding? We're looking for someone who can create an entire world here -
Candidate#2: Psh!
Bezlehuh: Psh? Did you actually say -
Candidate#2: PSH! Who needs words? I have whole worlds - entire galaxies, mind you! - all inside here. *taps temple* But my space has been crowded lately, man. The words have no room to flow. I am telling you, the neighbor's cat is Satan's werebeast! He haunts me -
Bezlesheebus: Next!
Candidate#2: *leaves but it's hard to tell*
Candidate #3 hesitates at the door. She watches Candidate #2 leave in a huff.
Candidate#3: Is this the place for World Builder interviews? I got confused by the walking black hole...
Bezleyeah: Absolutely! Please come in. Take a seat.
Bezleton scratches his rash. Candidate #3 watches with interest.
Candidate#3: Looks nasty.
Bezlehmm: Just a topical thing, not contagious.
Candidate#3: Cool.
Bezleserious: So, tell me about your novels.
Candidate#3: Um, well, they're stories about aliens and spaceships and people and stuff. You know, just stories.
Bezleperk: Your resume says you've written "several." How many is that exactly?
Candidate#3: I really hate questions like that. I mean, do you count the graphic novel? It doesn't seem like you should. Plus I did it when I was seven. But I've written a lot since then! It's gotten better. Mostly.
Bezlelean: So you've written a lot?
Candidate#3: Yeah, I mean, I guess. Most of it's just messing around.
Bezlearch: Messing around?
Candidate#3: Well, yeah. *nervous laugh* Like your ad says, "Relentless Flounderer." That's me.
Bezlecue: So you flounder a lot? While you're writing?
Candidate#3: Yeah... pretty much all the time.
Bezlewho: But you keep at it?
Candidate#3: I tried quitting once. Worst three days of my life.
Bezlehitch: Don't you ever feel like you know what you're doing?
Candidate#3: Every once in a while. Like when I finally see how the protagonist's evolution was predestined from the time he met the villain way back before the story started, and I totally get why they're interconnected, like they're all part of one continuous story of the universe unfolding? Sometimes that happens. It usually passes quickly.
Bezleeam: You're hired!
Candidate#3: Um, what?
Bezleyes: You're just what we need.
Candidate#3: What exactly is this job?
Bezleyike: Didn't you read the description before you applied?
Candidate#3: Honestly, no. The title caught my eye and I clicked through. I figured what the heck, it's worth a shot.
Bezlehope: You're going to be perfect for this. We need someone to reinvent the universe: tear it down, build it up, and recreate it into something better. Something real. Something that will inspire people with all types of appendages to dream big and dare to climb their own personal challenges.
Candidate#3: Crap. I can't do all that.
Bezlenod: Yeah, probably not. But you're the only one who even has a chance of succeeding.
Candidate#3: Do you have some kind of nano-tech materialization device to do all this?
Bezlepump: That sounds like a good place to start...
If you're convinced that you have no idea what you're doing, that you can't possibly accomplish a fraction of your ambitions for the story you're about to start... then you're the perfect person for the job.
Dedicated to all the
National Novel Writing Month Crazy Pants Writers starting their next voyage soon.
p.s. I won't be NaNo-ing with you this year, but I'm with you in spirit.
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