Upon the Wings of Greater Things
The creative endeavours of Starla Huchton
So, it’s release day for Maven. (Kindle, Smashwords, B&N, and print)
I should be excited, muppet flailing around my house like a crazy person.
Instead, I am stuck in an endless loop of questioning what I’ve done in putting out a *gasp* Science Fiction Romance novel, alternating with being extremely angry at what I’ve been reading about the SF community lately.
What’s all this now? This does not look like stuff about me!
Because, well, it isn’t. This here is a blog tour, folks, and I am in it! I am very pleased to do this little post, my first ever participation in a blog tour, as it is for a person I <3 very much. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Misty Provencher:
Wow. So, the cover reveal for Maven was a HUGE success. Like OMG huge. I never expected the level of participation I got with that and the number of eyeballs that ogled my precious astounds me.
I figured since that went so well, why not have even more fun with this book? The squeaky wheels in my brain started turning and here’s what I came up with.
Today is the day!
I’ve been bouncing out of my chair for about a week now, overwhelmed, excited, terrified, humbled, grateful… so many things. But IT’S FINALLY HERE!
On May 4th, I put out a call to anyone that had a blog that might be interested in helping me reveal the cover for my upcoming release, MAVEN. I did this thinking I would get a handful of folks that would say yes, maybe, oh, ten, possibly a dozen. I sat back and waited. I saw my friends RT the request. I sent out a few emails to blogs I wanted to specifically target because of their audience (genre specific). But mostly I just crossed my fingers and hoped I wasn’t throwing a party no one would show up for.
And then… it got crazy.
I promised news on the availability of the first book in the Endure series, Maven, earlier this week, so here I am, back to tell you all about what’s going on.
After a few nibbles from the traditional publishing world (which was pretty exciting and frustrating and well, you know), I’ve decided to take the plunge and go full-bore into self-publishing the series.
So when can you expect this out in the world? Well, after embarking on another round of edits to make sure everything is as tight as it can be, I’ve set a date.
If you’ve ever written anything remotely Science Fiction-related, you’ve probably done research. Personally, it wasn’t something I had ever really considered up until a few years ago. That was the beauty of primarily writing Fantasy: you can make it up and no one will question it (usually, there are outliers).
I’ve found Science Fiction to be an entirely different animal. I have to be honest here. I was never much into “hard” sci-fi, full of detailed explanations of tech and high level theories. I always preferred Fantasy’s “wave a wand and call it magic” approach, thus negating the need to explain why things happened (I’m not arguing rules of various magic systems here, just go with this for argument’s sake, okay?). This was one-hundred and fifty percent true for me… until I discovered Steampunk.
Wow.
So, okay, I didn’t really see this coming but…
I finished another book. Again, it wasn’t the project I’d intended. In fact, it wasn’t even on my radar.
Book 2 in the Endure series is now complete.
That’s right. Book 2. I’ve finally finished a sequel to something. [Read more…]
Lately I’ve been having a lot of conversations about what I’ll be doing in the next year. In doing so, it’s caused me to wonder if I’m not a little overambitious for everything I’ve got on my list of what’s getting done. I have multiple projects on three different creative fronts, another move, and all the other life things that go hand in hand with being a military spouse.
So many exciting things are coming this year, so I’ve decided to write up a little post telling you all a bit about them.
So it’s been awhile since I gave much thought to The Dreamer’s Thread, but with the launching of the spiffy new podiobooks.com site, along with a slew of email updates on the topic, I got to thinking about my old TDT cover. In particular, how much my design work has changed since I first put it together. This thinking was prompted by an email about covers from Podiobooks Godfather Evo Terra. I sent out a reply email explaining about my design stuff, when I realized that the one cover folks probably identify most with me is my absolute oldest work and not my best. I can see those other podiobook authors reading my email, checking me out on Podiobooks, and then promptly scoffing at my hubris.
That absolutely does not fly with me.
So, I set to myself to the task, worked my Photoshop mojo, and gave my first novel a make over. Because everyone knows a badly dressed book is far worse than a naked one.
The end result? Well, I’ll let you decide for yourself.
An interview I gave Michell Plested for the Get Published podcast went live last night. I always love giving interviews, but I still feel very strange when I’m asked for one. It’s a funny combination of feeling confused, flattered, excited and nervous.
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