Introducing Allyson Lindt

*Waves* Hi, everyone! Very first of all, a huge thank you to everyone who offered congratulations about my news yesterday, in whatever medium. I know I’m currently spamming so many social media outlets, I’m just so excited about my first book deal .^_^So...

Who Reads Your Unfinished Work?

I stumbled into a situation the other day that I’d never expected to come across. I’m not sure if it was foolish of me to think this wouldn’t happen, but I can’t see it being something I’d anticipate. Even now, I can’t imagine it...

4th Annual No Kiss Blogfest!

Happy New Year, all! I’m not one for resolution posts, or coming in the next year posts, or anything like that. But one thing I’ve looked forward to about a new year ever since I started blogging is Frankie Diane Mallis’ No Kiss Blogfest. If your not...

A Return to the Land of the Living

It’s been ages since I blogged. I’ve written a handful of drafts since then, but they all sit in draft mode, probably never to be finished, because the brilliant inspiration died once I got about halfway in and I figured if I wasn’t interested in...

Power Creep (in Writing)

I play this MMORPG that I’m really, fairly addicted to. It’s not WoW, or probably any game most people have heard of. It has this unique kind of leveling system that I’ve never seen in any other game.I’m not a gamer by nature. I can talk the...

You’ve Got The Look

The awesome and talented Heather Murphy @ Random Interruptions has tagged me. Not in a Roxette song, but close ^_^As I understand it, here’s how U Got The Look works. I take my current manuscript, search for the word ‘look’ and post the surrounding...

Indie vs(?) Traditional Publishing

In case you missed my last post, scroll down and check it out, because I made myself think. It’s an odd sensation. I didn’t mean to drag this out, but I’ve been pondering the entire concept of changing the way we think about publishing.And once...

Changing the Way We Think

We’ve recently discovered a webseries on the Penny Arcade site called Extra Credits. It’s not a new series, so we’re having a lot of fun going through the archives.The series appeals to me first as someone who plays the ocassional video game, and has...

Dreaming Big & Early Retirement

I was talking to a coworker a while back, and comparing and contrasting our ‘career’ goals. I put it in quotes, because these are the things we’d do if we could put our wildest, most vast and epic career fantasies into place.For him, that tends to...