People always say, celebrate the small victories so today I am sharing one. My draft has finally reached 15,000 words! I know that sounds pathetic considering it will likely be 60,000 words in the end, but it has been such a struggle just to get to this point. May 1 2022, some friends and I took over managing a horse farm, or so we thought. It was in fact, taking over us! Much of the last month has been spent getting the farm organized and functional so BUA had to take a bac

Added to the 'Indie Books We Love' section https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/22542/Dragonsown-Surface-by-Erika-Leigh-Agnew.html A promising start to a new series that will no doubt capture the attention of fantasy adventure fans. ‘Dragonsown-Surface’ by Erika Leigh Agnew introduces us to an medieval kingdom, once ravaged by a war against dragons and twin brothers Kael and Keaton who realise their whole lives weren’t quite what they thought they were. The first in the Dragons

This is far from finished but I am excited to show the initial draft of The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk's cover. I am working with Kerstina from 99Designs https://99designs.ca/profiles/kerstina She created the original Dragonsown cover and I couldn't wait to reach out and continue this design journey. At first it was hard to convey that these are not your stereotypical, beautiful, fairy tale unicorns that befriend virgins and grant wishes. They are kickass warriors who aren'

In a few days, I will be finishing up a 9-month mindset course amid many mixed feelings. This course wasn’t only about positive thinking and goal setting but about being responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Becoming more self-aware, listening for all of the negative self-talk we give ourselves and questioning if any of it were even true. As the course closes the coach posted some last-minute videos and one concept blew my mind to the point I had to write about

Here's my entry for the latest Wattpad short story contest. The topic was helping other author's find ideas and their inspiration. It was interesting to write because it showed me how much my own process for brainstorming and idea searching has changed since I first had the idea to write a book. I used to wait for inspiration to strike instead of go looking for it and it wasted so much time!! https://www.wattpad.com/story/284407357-idea-generation-startwriting-contest It too

I published Dragonsown on Amazon a year ago today. I remember thinking- Whew! It's finally done! I couldn't have been more wrong. This year has been full of learning about all the things I didn't know or do while I was writing a book. I never wrote a synopsis, didn't know what world building was and WTH was a character ARC?? Unknown to me at the time, it is the character's journey, from where they are at the beginning of the book to where they end up, their learning, their de

Below is my first attempt at creating a short story for a competition. While I have self-published a book, writing a story to be reviewed by a panel of judges while being available online to anyone was way outside my comfort zone. My submission definitely wasn't perfect but if I had sat on it, I probably would have missed the deadline! Not only was it the start of a new year but the start of a new decade! I had to do it justice so 2020 was set to be my most action-packed tra

This is a small piece of the first chapter of The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk. I am hoping to have the book completed by year end :) If you like it, please let me know if you would like to be an ARC reader. Note- this is not edited! Dragon scat. Ember’s delicate nostrils flattened with disgust. While it wasn’t in view, the smell of it carried for long distances. Ember snorted and angrily tossed his mighty head; this meant the boundary was not being respected. The dragons had

Today I submitted my second query to a publisher. It seems like this is going to be a different experience every time. For this one I needed to include a synopsis which was new for me because even though I've technically written a book, I've never written a synopsis. Many YouTube videos later, I think I came up with a decent effort and I thought of even posting it here but since it includes a ton of spoiler alerts, I am just going with the query blurb itself. This gives a bit

After writing 7000 words of the Dragonsown sequel, I became obsessed with the idea of a unicorn army. So much so, that every time I tried to brainstorm for the sequel, all that would pop into my head would be 'unicorn army.' So fine, I've shelved part 2 for now and I am 1000 words into what will be the Dragonsown prequel, The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk. And go figure, now I am stuck. What I've found has really helped me is doing a mind map, basically write down one idea in