I’ve spent the past couple of weeks dealing with some personal life stuff connected with this time of year. It still hasn’t completely died down (tomorrow, December 1, is the anniversary of two very difficult events in my life), but I’m hoping things will even out and I’ll get through the end of November/beginning of READ MORE
Author: karennacolcroft
First Draft Done!
In October, a week or so after I released Ebb and Flow, I started writing the sequel to it, which is tentatively titled Life and Time. Yesterday, I finished writing that sequel! I think that’s one of the fastest first drafts I’ve ever done. And I’m pretty happy with the story, though there are a READ MORE
It’s Been a Bit…
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
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
