Fantasy Author and Very Serious Person
It's been over five weeks since my debut novel The Perfect Assassin came out into the world and I've been spending most of that time decompressing. Relaxing. Reading. Sleeping (!), even, when the Toddler allows. But me being me, I've also been thinking about the past year - and beyond. It's been a bit of… Continue reading 5 Tips for Surviving Your Debut Year
It's been a Quiet on the Outside, Busy on the Inside kind of month. I've been burning the candle at both ends to get copy edits for book 2 done and in and just shy of perfect. Funny thing: when the book you're fixin' was written five years ago, there tends to be a bit… Continue reading All Quiet
The Perfect Assassin is out in the world!! You should be able to find it anywhere books are sold. Also libraries!! In fact, people've been sending me photos of it in the wild, face-out, at Barnes and Nobles and their local indies, and honestly, that's been so, so cool. People have been asking me how… Continue reading It’s here!!
How did we go from two and a half years to less than a week?? Oh right, the passage of time. Well aside from flailing, I haven't much to say. But I've got a lot of links! First off, if you want to learn about dunes - or some of my research behind the Perfect… Continue reading Less Than a Week
It sure has been a month. I don't even know how to begin, so let's just run through it, shall we? I started a new job. Winter finally showed up. I moderated my first panel and gave my first reading at ConFusion in Detroit. I wrote a bit more of my WIP. The cover for… Continue reading January Recap (Madcap?)
The next few months are going to be a whirlwind - and not just because I have a book coming out (in 74 days [not that I'm counting {okay yes I'm counting}]). New job, ConFusion, new WIP, edits for book 3, (presumably) copy edits for book 2, cheering on my fellow 2019 debuts, trying (somehow)… Continue reading Promises
Today is the Solstice, the longest night of the year and the turning point. No longer will the days continue to shorten; we only have light to look forward to. It's the perfect time to breathe deep, feel the chill, and look back at the year. And this has been a year. It feels like a… Continue reading Looking Back, Leaning Forward
It's the end of the year, which means it's time to GET REALLY EXCITED about all the amazing books coming out in 2019. There are a million and more I could list and never stop listing, and quite a few of those are from debut authors. You can see a whole long list of those… Continue reading All the Debut Fantasy Novels Your Heart Could Ever Dream of Coming in 2019
It's that time of year again! That glorious time when I get to exclaim loudly (and with a fair amount of cursing) about all of my favorite books I read this year. Which this year is again ALL OF THEM. On the one hand, it has been tough to find the time to read with… Continue reading 2018 Books of Awesome, Part: Those Books that Are Out Already
It is November 28th. There are three days remaining in November, which means three days remaining in National Novel Writing Month, that time of year when thousands - hundreds of thousands - of writers try to plunk down 50,000 words in the span of a single month. In years past, I have diligently hit the… Continue reading On NaNoWriMo and Failure, Or: How I’m Learning to Embrace My New Writing Process
K. A. Doore 