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April Stats

admin — Mon, 01 May 2023 00:16:26 +0000

I’m excited to say that in April, I finished my first-ever book – Escaping the Omega Bond! Currently available on Kindle Vella in serial format, I’m currently editing it, and it will be released in ebook and paperback later this year!

I posted a total of 9 chapters to Kindle Vella this month

1 for Escaping the Omega Bond
2 for ETOB 1.5 “Layla’s Story”
6 for Her Scout from the Stars – including my first-ever steamy scene!

I wrote a grand total of 12354 words for the month, not counting outlines, revisions, or secret projects!

Newsletters & More!

admin — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Indie publishing is a new game, and honestly, I didn’t ever imagine myself in this spot. While I’ve always enjoyed creating and telling stories, I didn’t think I had the ability to write finished pieces that anyone would actually want to read. I’m learning as I go – on the writing, but also on the surrounding skills that I need to keep the wheels from falling off when it comes to publishing. This week, I’ve been teaching myself about newsletters!

I can’t promise I’ll send one too frequently (I’m aiming for quarterly right now), but if you’d like to be notified of new releases and other news in the Lunaverse, you can sign up below!

Is it spring yet?

admin — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:53:58 +0000

Life at just shy of 9000′ isn’t quite like living on another planet – but sometimes it feels like it. This week, my grandparents’ farm (just shy of a thousand miles south and east of us) is seeing highs into the 80s, and my mother is talking about the blackberry harvest she expects to have next month. Up here? It snowed again this morning (with more predicted tonight!). I love where we live, but I’m definitely ready to get some plants into the ground – which I can’t do until it warms up a little more consistantly.

So instead of planting tomatoes and pruning seedlings, I’m planting future stories and pruning existing ones into shape. Escaping the Omega Bond is complete in it’s initial format (available now on Kindle Vella – a serial platform by Amazon). While I did edit as I went, I’ve found the usual rocks in the garden (mostly in the form of continuity errors. Poor Mal had two hair styles and colors at different points in the story that took place about 48 hours apart. Oops.) and fixed the glaring ones, but mostly left it intact. Now that I’m preparing to publish it in book form, the main changes will be expansion on some of the different emotional notes that I didn’t hit as hard as I wanted the first time through. It’s an interesting experience and I hope I learn as much from each subsequent story I finish! The perspective from above- reading a story end to end- is just plain different from what you can see writing individual chapters or segments.

At the same time I’m editing ETOB, I’m also outlining The Alpha’s Dilemma, which is the second book in the story of Mountain Call Pack. The initial crisis that brought Aura into the boys’ lives is resolved, but that resolution has brought new problems – and Aura’s secure in her new position, but with new responsibilities and challenges that she never anticipated. The relationships continue to develop, and well… there’s more exciting stuff yet to come.

-Sapphira