Can you believe October is halfway through? That means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is right around the corner! If you’re looking for awesome story ideas with a sci-fi twist, check out these sci-fi writing prompts below. (And if you’re looking for writing prompts in a different genre, be sure to check out my posts …
Time for book cover magic! If you missed the last video, I gave a tour of my desk and talked about how I write novels (even while I’m working a full time job. Whew!). Today’s video–making the book cover as awesome as the shapeshifter story inside! If you like watching me draw this book cover, …
Hello, bookish friends! You know, I’m not sure when I first heard about unicorns as a kid, but I do know that I thought they were MAGNIFICENT. (Dragons were also amazing. So were tigers and wolves and Chinese river dolphins, but those were a little more accessible through nature documentaries on TV.) At any rate, …
Hello, bookish friends! As you know, I adore writing stories about shapeshifter girls and beautiful crow boys. But sometimes it’s fun to return to the classics, you know? I’ve had a lot of mythical beasts crawling through my reading list lately, too, so I think my eye was already primed to jump on these fantastic …
Wow, would love to see a ‘behind the scenes’! An Instagram follower suggested a behind the scenes look at some of these photo manips I’ve been posting, and I’m happy to share! 🙂 Here’s a quick video of the floating teapot coming together in Photoshop. Hope you like it! P.S. Be sure to follow me …
With so many magical stories in North America alone, I knew my books had to have some Mexican myths thrown into the mix! While I was weaving the latest danger into Devil’s Den, I stumbled into some really cool Youtube videos where people are speaking Nahuatl (historically known as the Aztec language). In fact, over …
Where did you get the inspiration for the Murmur books? A reader sent in the question above, and I think it’s an especially awesome question for fantasy fiction books. Where do all of these pieces come from? For me, I think the ideas for the Wildheart books draw from a couple of wells of inspiration: …
We got the first snow of the year here in Maryland. It wasn’t very much, and I’ll definitely have to go to work tomorrow, but it was just enough to make the treetops sparkle when I took Rally for his walk this morning. With the snow coming down outside, I figured it was a perfect …
Hello, bookish friends! I’ve gotten a lot of wonderful comments on the Wildheart book covers, and I’m so glad you guys like them! Today’s post is a behind-the-scenes look at my glamorous desk (ha!) and how I put together the cover for the third book, Devil’s Den 🙂 Gathering Inspiration Devil’s Den pulls in a lot …
George Redhawk makes these amazing moving images — incroyable! Native American George RedHawk's Motion Effects Art is Really Amazing