Beth Alvarez - Author of Epic Fantasy

Author: Beth

  • Preptober Freebie: Word count tracker printable pages

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    I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve won the past couple times I participated in NaNo events, but it didn’t work out for my calendar this year. That said, one thing I found that I loved last year was a free printable word count tracker arranged into bars representing 1,000… Read the rest…

  • Back to work

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    By the end of October, Paragon of Water should be done. Hopefully well on its way to being edited, too, but we’ll see how it goes. On the whole, I feel like going is easier than it was when summer hit and writing slowed down. I don’t actually remember when… Read the rest…

  • Spooky season is for vampires

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    October’s right around the corner, and this time of year always makes me think of the books I wrote first. It also makes me laugh, because for all that I’ve been updating this blog for years with bits about writing, artwork, my doll projects, and lots of fantasy stuff.. the… Read the rest…

  • Spectrum Artifact stickers

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    Most of the bookish stuff and projects I’ve been talking about lately have related to The Assassin’s Bride, since that was my newest release… but now I’m looking ahead again, because Paragon of Water, the third Spectrum Legacy book, will be out in November. I have a lot of fun… Read the rest…

  • The Assassin’s Bride is now available!

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    Or, it’s been available for a few days… oops! The time around book releases is always a little frenzied, and this one was a busier event than some of the others. I’ll share some information about that soon, but for now, it’s here. You can click here to get your… Read the rest…

  • Welcome to Kentoria

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    You all know by now that I love maps for fantasy books. Each time I draw one, it’s a little different, but I always try to do something. Unsurprisingly, I drew a map for my newest book, The Assassin’s Bride, which comes out this Friday. Exciting!! This was a new… Read the rest…

  • Writing is a physically demanding job, whether I like it or not

    When the preorder for The Assassin’s Bride went up, I wasn’t ready. The book wasn’t done. After a writing drought all summer, leaving me with next to no words written across several months, I wasn’t sure I’d get it done at all. But now work on the book is wrapping… Read the rest…