I didn’t blog the past couple of weeks because I’ve been going my second round of fighting pneumonia, and that’s made it a bit hard to think and function. I’m still not well, and it’s going to take a while before I am. But I wanted to blog in response to what happened in the READ MORE
Author: karennacolcroft
The Best-Laid Plans…
I try to plan in advance what books I’ll be working on and when. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that those plans often get changed. This is partly on me. Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew, so to speak, and plan too many projects in READ MORE
5 Stars!!
I don’t automatically expect my books to get great reviews. Some of that is me being realistic; all books have issues of one kind or another, and not every story is every reader or reviewer’s cup of tea. But some of my lack of expectation of good reviews is due to imposter syndrome: “I suck, READ MORE
With Bated Breath…
(And yes, I did spell “bated” correctly.) On Thursday, Oct. 10, I’ll be releasing Ebb and Flow. I am so excited about this book. When I did the edits, I was sad about finishing; I wanted to keep reading about Quinn and Malachi. Of course, to keep reading about them, I have to keep *writing* READ MORE
Editing and such
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
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