Chaotic Array

1) Your First Book Won't Be Your Big Break Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Your first self-published work probably won't launch you to the top of bestseller lists or turn you into an overnight rockstar. This is okay. It's normal. You are not a failure. The market is overflowing with indie books at the moment, and that will not be changing anytime soon. Readers want to see that an author is dedicated to their calling and capable of producing multiple works sometimes before taking a chance on them. Chances are you might not see a huge jump in sales until after you publish your third or fourth work. That's okay. It's normal. Focus on creating good art and nurturing other artists, and in time, you will succeed. You have to prove you have the chops to keep at it even if it seems like stormy waters at first. Tips:  Books 200 pages and longer tend to sell better. Your cover is pretty important, but a good cover is worthless without a blurb that can keep...

Revisions make me cry. I say this because I'm knee-deep in edits for the new edition of Souls of Salt & Seawater: It's not heavy edits or anything - mostly just finer copy editing than the book got before. There are a few new lines here and there, but the main burnt of new material is a bonus short story I'm including that's never been published. So why am I crying? This computer screen hurts my eyes, and I probably spend too much of my time off online to be still staring at it. I got new glasses that cut blue light from screens in half, but God, the struggle is real. Whatever, though. Mermaids take priority. I don't have much to say about the new edition right now: I'll share a lot more details the night before release. (I have no date picked yet, but within the next month!) Aside from that I've been hiding from weird noises in the night, eating too much rice to be considered healthy, and drinking insane amounts of coffee. Also f...

I have an instagram. It's  https://www.instagram.com/royal_hijinx/ You should follow me. I've plugged my insta here before, but I'm doing it again because I recently changed my username/url, so I wanted to make sure it was accessible to everyone. Also, I really enjoy taking and cataloging pretty pictures. It's why I love Pinterest and Tumblr; the only difference is with insta they all come from me. I tend to check out everyone who follows me, so there's always a chance I'll follow back, too~

Storm of Masks  is out, and you should probably buy it and read it and let it get you super excited for the fall. I mean, if you want. That's actually not what I wanna talk about, right now, though. I put the book out the other day and it's been nice not being near the end of a project for a while, so I can just float. I'm so glad it's done and out there and it's just out of my hands - I wrote the best book I can, and it has to sink or swim on its own. I've spent the last couple days just hanging out with friends, listening to music, catching up on BoJack Horseman and rewatching Jessica Jones. Fun, easy stuff. I'm still working, but since SoM is published, I'm taking a couple days to play around with various projects and outlines and see what direction I wanna go in next. I think I may dive into the second books in the Evernight Falling Saga and the Seraph Chronicles. If I could finish ToS and Atrocity and put them both out around the same time, I...