New Giveaway: Win one of FIVE free copies of The Lerewood!

Because my last giveaways on Goodreads were a success, I’ve decided to do another one! But this time, I’m going to do a little test. ~ I know I talk about it in my blogs a lot, but I like to use Goodreads because it’s one of the biggest and most influential platforms an author can use on social media. It can be difficult to connect to readers through other platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat because, shockingly, there are a lot of people on these platforms who aren’t

The Pros and Cons of Giving Your Book Away For Free

As I’ve mentioned in earlier blog posts, Goodreads, in my opinion, is hands-down the best place to list a giveaway, especially if you’re an author with not too many followers on social media (working on that myself, still). In a nutshell, Goodreads is the largest reading community an author can expose their book to. You can give away only one of your books for free, but you’ll still have hundreds of readers exposed to your book, many of which will be intrigued by your plot summary and

How to Overcome Being Buried in Details

My book, The Blue Horse, came about as a happy accident. I stumbled on an account online about a sky-blue hairless horse that was discovered in South Africa in 1860. A merchant named Lashmar found it while watching a herd of quagga (quagga were a subspecies of zebra – now extinct – that were striped only on the front half of their bodies.) Lashmar was astonished to see a weird creature calmly grazing with the quagga. It looked like an ordinary horse, but it was blue! He was even more surprised

Three Books and Three Years Later…

Well, it hasn’t been one year since my book came out; it’s been just over three. Good enough ;). *** All right, so it is rather neat that it’s been three years and about one month(ish) since The Curious Case of Prince Charming came out and that’s pretty cool. People who know me well know that it was one of my lifelong dreams to be published and now I’m not only once published, I’m thrice published and I’m sure that younger me didn’t quite see that coming (though she certainly hoped for it.)