Any day now, I’ll have a pre-sale to announce! Bone of Contention, the third and final novel in the XK9 “Bones” Trilogy, will be available for pre-sale orders in advance of its September 24, 2024 publication date. My plan (check back in a few weeks to see how well it went 😳) is to offer ebooks through Amazon, paperbacks through the Weird Sisters Publishing website, and both (if possible) through IngramSpark’s new e-commerce portal. Amazon doesn’t allow tiny publishers like…
By Jan S. Gephardt After I finished What’s Bred in the Bone and published it in 2019, I thought writing A Bone to Pick would be lots easier than writing the first book in the Trilogy. After all, I had an outline. I had scenes, cut from the first novel, all ready to go into the second one. It was partly written already! I should easily have it ready to go by 2020. A year, maybe 18 months, tops, because…
By Jan S. Gephardt Lately, I’ve been increasingly bothered by a cluster of tendencies I call “Indie issues.” They crop up in the writing of otherwise-competent self-published authors, and they happen often enough that I’ve started to recognize them. Perhaps you’ve noticed, too. No, I’m not talking about plain old bad writing. Of course, beginning writers often write less well than seasoned pros. And yes, a number of Indie writers don’t yet know their craft. To get to “good,” a…