Author: KenMcConnell
I’ve been looking into moving my paperbacks over to Lightning Source. The reason has to do with getting them into local Indie bookstores. As amazingly easy as CreateSpace is to use, they are still an Amazon company and Indie book…
Writing Above is a screenshot of my WIP exported to RTF format. I like to read it on other devices and this is one way to do that. It’s about 204 pages and 49K words at this point in time…
I had a major revelation about my current WIP this week and it meant pulling out about ten chapters of the book. They had not all been written, but a major subplot is now gone. This means reordering my remaining…
Novel Writing came to a screeching halt this week as I had a major a-ha moment concerning a subplot involving the Votainion Empire. I would up pulling four thousand words and a dozen chapters out of the book. This left…
I was moving right along on my latest novel when suddenly the brakes came on and the next thing I knew I had lost about four thousand words. Reading books on plot and structure and some heart-to-heart chats with a…
We were cleaning out the kid’s closet today and had enough shoes to make a fun picture of him. Those are his baseball cleats from age 5-12. We then took him to the sporting goods store to buy new…
I’ve decided to change my extremely un-lucrative web based product store from Cafe Press to Zazzle. Not in an effort to make money off my merchandising but instead to offer some new t-shirt designs. Sometimes you have to mix things…
In addition to writing Book 2 of the Star Saga, I’ve been working with my brother to get Book 7 and Book 1 finalized in paperback. The issues we were having involved getting the covers just right. The solution appears…
<Movie poster image link revoked by owner> No, not the Peter Jackson film – Heavenly Creatures. Although that’s good too. I’m talking the middle story of a trilogy of shorts in a single film. The film is from South Korea…
