Recent content by NRuhwald

I think maybe I used the wrong term. I don't mean beta readers in that sense. I mean if you have a "review team" of fans who get ARCs in exchange for reviews, where do they post the review if the book isn't out yet? Do they post the review later, or can they really only post a review if you have...

So if you send out ARCs to your beta reader team, or whoever, where do they leave a review if the book isn't out yet? Obviously a book blogger you send an ARC to will post it on their blog or where ever. But what about the regular folks? Thanks.

Update, this short story will be published in the next edition of Scare Street's Night Terrors Anthology!

Shoot, not in the US. An unordered series would have been great to do.

So, all my books are (or will be) set in the same universe, and many of them have overlapping characters. Some more so than others. The first five or so novels I'm planning to write are all centered around a particular magic cult/secret society called the Inner Circle, with one chapter existing...

Today we have something a bit different. My pet tarantula, Bubblegum, has asked to share an original poem on my blog. Tarantula Poetry #1

Nice! I really enjoyed this

Fiddlesticks' Diary: Entry Two The Strange Book: Entry Two

I've been there! What you decide to do with the beautiful mess you've created depends on you. Without knowing you and your project better it's hard to give good advice. I do have some thoughts on making an interesting character. I won't repeat what Chasejxyz said above about goals and...

I use Evernote. There's a premium version, but the free one has what you'll probably need. You can sync it across your phone and computer, so you can write stuff down on the go and still have it in one place. It even has some handy character profile and plot outline templates. And if you're...

Thanks! Well, library techs do a variety of things. We all help patrons find books, use the printer etc. Then we also have our separate jobs helping librarians with their different functions, which may be doing interlibrary loans, cataloguing, updating the library website and so on.

Well, I've finally done it. My author site is now live. I found the idea of just posting cover reveals and other news a bit boring, so I've turned my updates into a kind of epistolary serialized story, from the perspective of an character that inhabits the universe I plan to write all my...

A writing how-to book by a well-known YA novelist (who's name I have now forgotten, but whose novels I read voraciously) mentioned that he sent his first draft off to his editor without touching it. So he could be another example, which would be much more relevant to your question if I...

It depends on the story you end up telling within this world. Is your MC a part of this Secret Society? Or someone in the government who's actively trying to suppress technology? Or someone who really wants to invent a plane? Then it will be an integral part of your story. If not, it might...

Woohoo! Congratulations!