CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

And here are the last of the blog entries that made me stop on my catch up day earlier this month: Lindsay Buroker on leaving an agent and choosing to self-publish with Kendra Highley: http://www.lindsayburoker.com/interviews-success-stories/leaving-an-agent-and-choosing-to-self-publis-kendra-highley/ Lindsay Buroker on her self-publishing thoughts after selling 50,000 works: http://www.lindsayburoker.com/amazon-kindle-sales/my-self-publishing-thoughts-after-50000-ebook-sales/ Lindsay Buroker on marketing opportunities on Wattpad: http://www.lindsayburoker.com/book-marketing/can-posting-stories-on-wattpad-help-you-sell-books/ JA Marlow on Smashwords distribution and formats: http://jamarlow.com/2012/09/clarifying-smashwords-file-formats-and-distribution-channels/ JA Marlow on finding inspiration in blob spam: http://jamarlow.com/2012/10/plot-bunny-spam-comments/ How to Successfully Self-Publish on reaching readers without self-promotion by Orna Ross: http://selfpublishinga...

Palmyra Ridge looks at  how someone from two cultures can make her own place in a changing world. It begins like this: Chani woke screaming. The Ridge was gone. The shaman stood over her, the rippled blade of his wooden knife gleaming softly in the starlight.     can be found in    An Anthology of Worlds was released mid-September 2012 and can be found at Amazon (in e-book and print) and Smashwords .

I nearly missed Chuck Wendig’s terribleminds flash fiction challenge this week, but just scraped the entry in… going by Australian time. The rules for this one were: Write a scary story in three sentences. It must have a beginning, middle and end. It cannot be a vignette. It must be no longer than 100 words in length. Do not post it in your on-line space. Post it in the comments space for the FlashFiction Challenge: Scary Story in Three Sentences terribleminds blog entry. I don’t think I quite pulled it off, but you can find it near the bottom of the page, at the terribleminds site .

Fisherpriest , my fourth novel is complete and available. Novels 1-3 are a different series and will go up over the next couple of months. Fisherpriest is a 96,000-word tale of dark fantasy, and the first in a new series set on the world of Tzamesch. It is a story from Vicarey-Esselwood, the founding kingdom of the Five Kingdoms alliance. Please bid welcome to the first of many Tales from the Five Kingdoms. Overview: When the two halves of her soul rejoin, Linna finds herself in a city she does not recognize on a world she thought existed only in her imagination. To make matters worse, she is captured and sold to four princes from a distant land, who require a priest of the sea, and the god she serves has rejected her. What starts out as a journey to regain her deity’s approval, soon becomes a flight for her life. With one prince at her side, and unspeakable evil at her back, Linna embarks on a journey where she must survive pursuit by the purist Silver Mountains tribeselves, an...

These blogs have plenty of advice for those looking to self-publish, undertake NaNoWriMo, market their work (indie or traditional). The third twenty blog entries that made me stop on my catch-up day: The Book Designer on useful blog articles about self publishing by Joel Friedlander: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/09/self-publishing-carnival-of-the-indies-issue-24/ The Book Designer on blog spam by Joel Friedlander: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/10/author-bloggingg-101-the-evolution-of-spam/ The Book Designer on converting an old book to an e-book by Joel Friedlander: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/10/is-it-worth-converting-an-old-book-into-an-ebook/ The Book Designer on a professional editor’s view and advice on self editing by Joel Friedlander with guest Linda Jay Geldens: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/10/self-editing/ Storyfix on NaNoWriMo by Larry Brooks: http://storyfix.com/another-nanowrimo-will-this-year-be-different Shannon Donnelly’s FreshInk...

Two Worlds Collide is a non-rhyming poem exploring the idea that perhaps the things we catch out of the corner of our eyes are real. It starts like this: Have you ever seen two worlds at once, one that's there, and one that's not? It’s a window to another realm, a gateway where potentials mix, and where some may cross while others merely watch. can be found in   An Anthology of Worlds was released mid-September 2012 and can be found on Amazon (in e-book and paperback) and Smashwords .