I won’t lie–I’m a paper book lover. Not only do I like paper books, I like attractive paper books. Bad spacing and too-tiny-to-read fonts drive me crazy. I like hyphenation and pretty chapter headers. And because I’m a control freak, that means fine-tuning the book over the course of many… Read the rest...
Author: Beth
Writer, artist, blogger, doll collector, and owner of Ithilear.com.
Bet you didn’t see that one coming, huh? My fantasy novella, Of Blood and Rain, is now available in print! Not only that, but it’s rocking an updated cover, too, and is also now available in Kindle Unlimited.
The cover’s been recolored for a darker, bolder, less cartoony look. Check… Read the rest...
There’s a place for jokes about how I stereotypically have difficulty deciding where we should go to eat. But truthfully, I’m not good at big decisions–no matter what they are. Some things are easier than others, with a more clear-cut deal breaker. I mean, Cricut or Silhouette? Wasn’t a hard… Read the rest...
I’m always looking for fun ways to keep track of my stories and the characters within them. One of my favorite ways to keep track of characters is to give them a character sheet in my book planner. But page after page of text can be kind of boring, even… Read the rest...
I never saw another customer in Teavana.
The employees often stood out front, usually wringing their hands and looking uncomfortable while people walked by. They didn’t really want to serve samples. They didn’t want to stand outside and harass people into trying them. They couldn’t tell me what ingredients were… Read the rest...
I know I’ve mentioned before that I’m not really a fan of resolutions. In 2015 and 2016, I posted a list of goals for the year. I skipped 2017 because I was kind of tired of blogging, but that meant I didn’t have anywhere to talk about which things I… Read the rest...
Last week, I shared some of my complex feelings on discovering traditional publishing probably wasn’t the best path to publication for me to follow. This week, I’ll be sharing part of why.
When I started researching traditional vs. self-publishing from a new angle, I created a spreadsheet where I could… Read the rest...