Fantasy Author and Very Serious Person
Recently, I shared five tips to help you survive your debut year (I mean, they helped me, so). It was pretty touchy-feely, because, well, have you met me? But I know how much people need something concrete when they're lost at sea and flailing about for anything solid, anything at all. So I thought a… Continue reading 8 Practical Tips for the Debut Author
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 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?)
Congratulations on your new debut author! Given the proper care, these creatures will make a wonderful addition to your family. They are generally quiet, complacent, and 120 proof, but while they may appear hardy on the outside, with frequent gruff vocalizations such as "no really, I'm fine," "these aren't tears; I have allergies," and "I… Continue reading How to Care for Your Debut Author
Galleys/ARCs: WHAT THEY ARE ARC stands for Advanced Reading Copy, and galleys are a variation on that theme. They're an early print of the book with the post copy-edits but not-yet-finalized text and marketing verbiage all over because they're, well, marketing tools. This is why sometimes they have a title and sometimes they don't. Mine… Continue reading From the Debut Trenches: Galleys/ARCs
Well what do we have here. No really. What do we have here? Gorgeously formatted pages with words on them that look vaguely familiar, like maybe... *squints* OH GOD THEY'RE MY WORDS Excuse me for a moment while I flail. *flails* Ahem. Those beautifully-formatted words are from page one of the Perfect Assassin's page proofs.… Continue reading From the Debut Trenches: Page Proofs
A common theme among blog posts by debuts, post debut, is the What I Wish I'd Known post. These are inevitably helpful in pointing out all the gaps in one's knowledge, the I-didn't-know-what-I-didn't-knows. But I call rubbish. I am impatient as a toddler and I don't wanna wait until after my debut to know what… Continue reading What I Wish I Knew, Now
Things that I have been unduly excited about since I discovered they were a Thing: - Flannel sheets - Bat boxes that have the Batman logo - Copy edits One of the things I've realized I'm good at over the years has been picky details. Since learning the exact nature of copy editing, I've been… Continue reading From the Debut Trenches: The Copy Edits Are Among Us
If you ask any writer (or artist [or human being]), they'll say that 2017 was a rough year. Full of distractions and worry and dread. Yet despite all of that, we kept on keeping on. I'm not exception - while I wasted countless hours on what-ifs and not sleeping, the work still had to be… Continue reading Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018
It's cliché, but I've always wanted to be an author. I tried to find another, better paying career path - I did, really - but nothing held my attention like writing. My eclectic employment situations over the past ten years holds the truth of that. I bounced from retail to foreclosure to secretary to data entry to property… Continue reading My Not-So-Meandering Path Towards Publication
K. A. Doore 