Really? June is nearly over? What?

Has my clock sped up? (Just kidding)

Yes, I’m about to light the fire – again! Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Okay, updates.

Clans in conflict

Deadly Convergence is still available here.

Still editing the other Kindle Unlimited book.

The Dark Road is still with the beta reader, although I may have another option there.

Dark Beginnings – I am still working on this but it is a little on the backburner at the moment.

Bushland Castle Productions

The novella series of Otherworldly Emergence closes in July.

All of the information necessary is at the website:

https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/emergence

Join me in being part of this amazing opportunity.

Consequences

Again, still waiting on beta readers. So far, have had good reports but one has some updates she wants to pass on. That’s what I’m waiting for.

Paranormal

I have gotten back into my ghost hunter/daemon hunter story. I have yet a few things to work out, but I am writing in it.

For those curious about the spelling of daemons, yes, they are demons, but not of this world. They come from Nina’s world, therefore they are “different”.

Shifters

These are currently on the backburner while Aleksander and Blair work out where their story is going.

Malevictus

Let’s not talk about editing. I am struggling to edit this one. I need to edit it, I know that, but it’s just not there for me. It’s a matter of digging in and getting it done.

On other news about that, the second book is coming along.

Planner or Pantser?

Can you be both? Of course you can. Let me explain what I think they each are, first.

To me, a plotter plots everything out. Characters, settings, plotlines, subplot lines, everything.

On the other hand, also to me, a pantser is someone who may do very sketchy plans for the next few coming scenes, has no idea of the end of the story and basically creates characters as they go.

Believe me I do this.

I have a few stories on the backburner that I started planning just to help people understand how to plan out a story. They’re still on the backburner. They’ve got a great start but I just don’t have the interest to continue them.

I am very much a pantser – for my first draft. Then I may plan how to bring it back in line – no, wait, who am I kidding? That’s why Nina’s first story stalled. Because I tried to make a note of the key things that happened in each chapter while editing the second draft. Bogged me right down!

Both methods are valid. I mean, I know people who have greatly improved their work by doing all the plotting, all the planning. I just don’t know that I can do it.

My advice is to try both ways. If one method isn’t working for you, try another method. I wrote a whole book on just a photograph. My first paranormal story.

The other suggestion I make – and this is only what I, personally, have done, is have an experimental character. Create a character that you can do anything you like to. Do the worst to this character. It’s amazing what you learn from it.

And always remember to keep an open mind. We learn our craft every time we touch a keyboard, put pen to paper, watch a movie, read a book or even watch events happening right before our eyes.

The world really is our oyster – go out there and make a pearl of a book from it!