June is my birthday month, and this year I’m doing something a little different. One of the things I do when I’m not writing is volunteering at a cat cafe near where I live in Massachusetts. This experience found its way into my novel Fill the Empty Spaces; in fact, in that book, the cats READ MORE
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Life Stuff
Cutting this week’s post VERY short because I am working on way too many things, and sometimes I need to set something aside for the sake of my mental health and well-being. I’m still working on the first draft (which is partially edited) of Fill the Empty Spaces, because the story keeps getting longer and READ MORE
Time Management
Time management…where what often happens is my time manages me. That’s something I’m working on, but I’m neurodivergent (I haven’t been formally diagnosed with anything, but multiple medical/mental health professionals have said that I am almost definitely autistic, along with living with Complex PTSD which also affects how my brain functions). There are numerous factors READ MORE
I Took a Trip
When I decided to start blogging (again… I used to have a blog on the old Karenna Colcroft site years ago), my intention was to do it weekly. Obviously I forget sometimes. Or things happen that lead to me not writing a post. Last week, I didn’t have a blog post because I was traveling. READ MORE
Musing About Marketing
As a self-published author, the responsibility for marketing my books is entirely mine. Even years ago when I worked with publishers, much of the marketing responsibility fell on me; small publishers don’t have the budget to put a ton of marketing muscle behind their authors, especially the authors whose sales aren’t in the higher levels. READ MORE
Release Week! And Some Upcoming Changes
This is it! On Thursday (March 23), Chance Met will officially be released! The book will be available in Kindle and print formats on Amazon! I have a couple of reviews scheduled, and I can’t wait to see what the readers and reviewers think of single dad Trey Damone, his son Mikey, and Trey’s new READ MORE
Chance Met Preorder Is Available!
Working on Chance Met was an adventure. The original version, published in 2013, was a novella that came in at well under 20,000 words. It was written as part of a Valentine’s Day thing my publisher at the time was running, and I wasn’t entirely happy with it because I felt like the characters, one READ MORE
Trying to Connect with Characters
Sometimes when I work on a story, the words just flow. I barely even need to think about what I’m going to write; I sit down, put my fingers on the keyboard, and off we go. It’s as if the character has become a real being and is dictating the words to me. All I READ MORE
Someone Likes My Books!
I belong to a bunch of Facebook groups that are related to writing in general, reading/writing romance, or specifically male/male romance. Some of the groups are discussion only; one doesn’t even permit authors to identify themselves as authors, partly so readers will freely discuss their opinions and partly to avoid becoming yet another group that’s READ MORE
Happy Valentine’s Day!
And happy first blog post to me! Well… not my first *ever* blog post. On the original Karenna Colcroft website, I had a blog where I posted regularly. That blog, along with the site itself, was taken down during my hiatus from writing. When I set the site back up in early 2022, I debated READ MORE
