Upon the Wings of Greater Things
The creative endeavours of Starla Huchton
Is it Tuesday already? The days until Nemesis releases are just rushing by! There’s about a million things to do between now and then!
But, as for your teaser…
There are tons of different problems to solve when it comes to the Maven Initiative, and this week, I’ll give you a peek at one of them. [Read more…]
So now that you’ve read the blurb and seen the cover for Nemesis, I thought it was probably time to give you all a little peek at the story. [Read more…]
We interrupt your regularly scheduled information about me to bring you the following:
It’s cover reveal day for a new friend of mine, Flail Herder extraordinaire, Dani Morales! [Read more…]
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:
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.
By now you’ve met both Lydia and Daniel (if not, follow the links to see those excerpts), so this week I’m giving you a taste of what brings them together as protagonists. I wasn’t kidding when I said I did a lot of research and that this book has a lot of science in it. It’s not all smutty prose, folks! I mean, it’s there, yeah, but there’s also PLOT. And the smut has a purpose. No, really. It does! Stop laughing!
Welcome back! Are you ready for another peek at Maven?
This week I’m giving you a selection that partially introduces you to our dashing hero, Daniel Brewer. There’s more to his story than what you’ll see here, obviously, but I think it’s a good place to show you what Lydia’s up against when she arrives on the DWRC Endure.
The book is written from dual perspectives. The story unfolds through both Lydia and Daniel, which presented some interesting challenges. I think it’s difficult for an author to really know if they’re writing the opposite gender properly, but this tale decided that’s how it needed to be written. Last week’s teaser was through her eyes. This week, you’ll see the world through his.
Welcome to my first ever Teaser Tuesday post!
I’ve decided to take the next three weeks and give you a little taste of the Sci-Fi Romance Endure series I’ve been obsessively slaving away at for months now. I’m a good chunk of the way through book 3, Progeny, as of this posting, but I can’t give you any of that until books 1 and 2, Maven and Nemesis, are out in the world. Hopefully, I’ll have some sort of timeline on their release very soon, but for now you can get a little taste of what’s coming.
So, remember about two weeks ago when I said my goal was to finish three first drafts of novels this year?
Well, I’ve finished one.
It wasn’t the story I was planning on finishing first, but it’s one that’s been with me since I was in high school. I began writing this novel last year about this time, cranked out 68,000+ words, and set it aside as Master of Machines took hold of me and threw me back into the world of Antigone’s Wrath. When reviewing all the projects I started last year, this one called to me once again and I dove in and finished it up in about a week after my last blog post.
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.