For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to work on editing Bring On the Broccoli (Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat 7). Working on it has been a bit complicated by the fact that I’ve been sick for the past two or three weeks. At the end of August, I started a new job READ MORE
Author: karennacolcroft
Blurbs
Sometimes writing a blurb is harder than writing the actual book. The blurb is the little “description” that appears on retail sites and on the back cover of a paperback. It’s meant to attract readers to the story. Which… isn’t easy. Back in the day, when I was working with publishers, sometimes I had to READ MORE
Long week…
I didn’t do a post last week because I was in the middle of doing multiple other things. Good things, but things that really required a lot of brain power. First, I got a new car. New to me, that is. (It’s actually nearly 10 years old.) This was vital, since my previous car needed READ MORE
Progress and Process
For far longer than I anticipated, I’ve been working on Bring On the Broccoli (Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat 7). I wrote a draft that took me over 3 months to complete, which is nearly twice as long as my drafts usually take, and then realized that that draft was mostly unusable. There wasn’t enough READ MORE
Red Sun In the Morning
There’s an old rhyme that my mother (who grew up in a fishing town by the Atlantic Ocean) and my father (who simply found it amusing) taught me: Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors delight. My dad tended to add “Red sky at noon, sailors play the bassoon,” but READ MORE
Ebb and Flow for Preorder!
I’m experimenting with different lengths of preorder periods for my books. When I started self-publishing in spring 2022, I was doing a one-month preorder, but I wasn’t getting orders. So I shortened it to two weeks. Which sometimes meant I got preorders, and sometimes not. (To be fair, some of the lack of preorders is READ MORE
New Month, New Projects
Well, technically one of the projects I’m currently working on isn’t new. After spending a week going through my universe bible (the document in which I try–and sometimes fail–to keep track of all the details of the world in which my books are set, plot points of the books, characters, and so on) and previous READ MORE
New Newsletter Thank You
When people subscribe to my newsletter, they receive a free gift as my thank you. For the past several months, it was a free PDF of the young adult novel Fresh Meat, which details the origin story of Tobias Rogan from the Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat series. I like to swap things out occasionally, READ MORE
My Executive is Dysfunctioning
Being neurodivergent, I have a brain that sometimes cooperates with me and sometimes doesn’t. The more I have on my figurative plate, the less my brain cooperates. Over the past week or so… it hasn’t exactly been cooperating. I’ve been deep in the thick of revisiting how I approach writing and publishing. Since I started READ MORE
Excitement!!
This past week has been an AMAZING week for me as an author! First, on Thursday (July 11), I released Take Some Tahini. Releasing a book is a major accomplishment, and I’m proud of myself for getting this one out there. Also on Thursday, I was notified that Fill the READ MORE