Tag: novelist
The Ballad of Ashes and Spring: A Hades and Persephone Retelling
Preview “The Ballad of Ashe and Spring: A Hades and Persephone Retelling” here. Then go preorder.
Gold and Lantern
Prompt: Why hasn’t anyone written a “Christmas” rom-com about a lonely Jewish widow and the Chinese restaurant owner who serves her every year but is too shy to reveal his feelings?
Well. Now I have!
My First Convention as an Author
Ever wonder what it’s like to attend a comic convention on the OTHER side of the table? Here’s what I learned selling books at my first convention.
How to Prepare for The Unthinkable
If you are one of the few authors who has been published by anyone other than yourself, you understand what a rare gem you have in your publisher. They give you credibility. They get your work on the market to a broad audience. And let’s be honest, they validate your skills as a writer. This is why the thought that you could be so lucky and skilled as to obtain a contract and lose it is almost unthinkable. Tragic.
Becoming the Hero You Need: Part Two
The heroes we love, the ones we truly root for, they don’t do it for themselves. They fight for their friends, family, community. They reach for an ideal beyond themselves. They don’t reach up for the stars, they reach down for the hand of those knocked down, out to embrace their neighbors, and do what they can to better the world and community around them.
Becoming the Hero You Need: Part One
But sometimes the hero you need is you. Sometimes you need to know that you are the one who can overcome adversity. The one who can stand up when you’ve been knocked down. The one who reaches a hand out to help others. Or the one who places an ideal above their own needs.
This is the first post in a three-part series on becoming the hero you need and will cover the body, heart/soul, and mind of a superhero.