Writing News
Feb. 27th, 2025 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerA wild writing post appears! First, Honeytrap and The Sleeping Soldier were both recced in The New York Times. God bless Olivia Waite.
Second, I have instituted Sunday Morning Writing. On Sunday morning, I sit down with the decorated composition book my penpal sent me at Christmas (literally it’s one of those school composition books, but with shiny teapots and stuff pasted to the cover), and write a short story.
So far I have managed a complete short story each Sunday. This streak almost certainly will not last, but it’s a good groove while it continues! The stories so far:
1. The Orpheus retelling
2. The magic teashop f/f story for the Kalikoi charity anthology
3. “So. You want to hear the story of how Temis came to be called Wolf Speaker?”
(This last one is in a fantasy setting I have noodled with since… high school… so it’s nice to have finally finished a piece!)
Third, through the kind agency ofsholio and jenett, I learned that although Amazon’s KDP select demands exclusive digital rights, you can nonetheless sell paperbacks of those books elsewhere. Moreover, uploading the paperback files to Draft2Digital will put them on a variety of online retailers’ websites (including Bookshop).
So I am plunking away at a paperback project. It turns out that since I already formatted the books to print as paperbacks, they’re pretty easy to upload to Draft2Digital. And next time someone asks if my books are available anywhere but Amazon, I will be able to point to the paperbacks!
Second, I have instituted Sunday Morning Writing. On Sunday morning, I sit down with the decorated composition book my penpal sent me at Christmas (literally it’s one of those school composition books, but with shiny teapots and stuff pasted to the cover), and write a short story.
So far I have managed a complete short story each Sunday. This streak almost certainly will not last, but it’s a good groove while it continues! The stories so far:
1. The Orpheus retelling
2. The magic teashop f/f story for the Kalikoi charity anthology
3. “So. You want to hear the story of how Temis came to be called Wolf Speaker?”
(This last one is in a fantasy setting I have noodled with since… high school… so it’s nice to have finally finished a piece!)
Third, through the kind agency of
sholio and jenett, I learned that although Amazon’s KDP select demands exclusive digital rights, you can nonetheless sell paperbacks of those books elsewhere. Moreover, uploading the paperback files to Draft2Digital will put them on a variety of online retailers’ websites (including Bookshop). So I am plunking away at a paperback project. It turns out that since I already formatted the books to print as paperbacks, they’re pretty easy to upload to Draft2Digital. And next time someone asks if my books are available anywhere but Amazon, I will be able to point to the paperbacks!
