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Cover Reveal! The Ghost Rebellion by Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine

02.26.2016 by Starla Huchton // 3 Comments

You guys, this is something pretty awesome. It’s not often that I do cover reveals for other people on this blog, but today I get to share something I’m really excited about!

Last year, I was approached by Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine asking if I’d be up to the challenge of creating a cover for the next book in The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series. The first four books were all traditionally published, but book 5 was going to be funded by a Kickstarter. It took me all of two seconds to answer with a resounding YES, but I knew going in the bar was set very high. Could I create a cover on par with Big 5 resources? Just little ole me sitting here in my house by myself? Was it a thing I could actually do, and do successfully?

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Categories // General News, Stuff Tags // Cover Reveal, Learn, Philippa Ballantine, Science Fiction, steampunk, Tee Morris, the ghost rebellion, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

Wherein I Mess With History

02.19.2016 by Starla Huchton // 1 Comment

So, here we are in 2016 already. Last year was a bit of a blur for me, with days flying by as fast as pages being rifled in a book. It went by so quickly, I didn’t get much of a chance to take a breath and plan my release schedule for this year until very recently.

Rather than prattle on about that, however, today I’m writing to let you know that I’ve sneaky-ninja-dropped a brand new book on Amazon! No big fuss this time. I simply finished, edited, and shoved it out the door. Marketing? What’s that? Pfft. :P

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Categories // General News, The Antigone's Wrath series, Updates, Writing Tags // Antigone's Wrath Series, master of machines, Read, Science Fiction, steampunk

Guest post – Swimming Upstream: Telling the Story that Doesn’t Sell

11.09.2015 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

I have a guest post for you! I’ve known Tee Morris (and his amazing wife, Philippa Ballantine) for many years, and have been blessed to have their support and wisdom at my fingertips whenever I needed it. So today, I’d like to share the thoughts of the Yodas I’ve had access to since the earliest days of my writing career. I recently posed a question that I think a lot of authors have asked themselves (or been asked by others): What makes you keep writing certain books when you’re made to question whether or not they’ll succeed?

Tee brings up some excellent points to consider here, so if you’re debating whether or not to write the thing you want to write, do keep reading.  -SH

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Categories // Stuff Tags // Learn, marketing, self-publishing, steampunk, Tee Morris, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, tips, writing tips

Master of Myth: The Big Reveal

08.20.2014 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

We are now just shy of a month out from the release of Master of Myth (Antigone’s Wrath #1), and you know what that means….

Cover reveal!

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Categories // General News, The Antigone's Wrath series, Updates, Writing Tags // Antigone's Wrath Series, Cover Reveal, fantasy, Learn, MASTER OF MYTH, release schedule, Science Fiction, steampunk

Jumping Genres: Reflections

05.29.2014 by Starla Huchton // 1 Comment

At Balticon this past weekend I was part of one of the very last panels of the con. The audience was tiny, which was to be expected for a panel taking place the last day of the con, but I thought you might like to hear my thoughts on the subject.

The title of the panel was “How Hard Can It Be? Jumping Out of Genre,” and was actually one of my suggested ideas this year. Over the last few years, my writing has been all over the place, and I wondered if other authors had experienced some of the strangeness I feel when I talk about writing in multiple genres, or how scary that can be, especially if you don’t know if your audience will follow you.

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Categories // Flipped Fairy Tales, General News, Stuff, The Antigone's Wrath series, The Dreamer's Thread, The Endure series, The Evolution Series, Writing Tags // Antigone's Wrath Series, Endure Series, evolution series, fantasy, Learn, MASTER OF MYTH, romance, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Romance, SciFi Romance, SFR, steampunk, superheroes, The Endure Series, the evolution series

The State of Starla: Release Schedule and a Hypothesis

05.14.2014 by Starla Huchton // 3 Comments

So, back in January, I decided that 2014 would be my Year of No Queries. Admittedly, it’s been a hard habit to break, but, so far I’ve only slipped twice, that being responding to a reply to a query I’d sent out last year (which I reluctantly backed away from), and a what-the-hell Twitter pitch I threw out that I immediately regretted doing. Anyway, I embarked on this year with a little hypothesis I wanted to test.

The idea was that rapidly releasing books would make a large impact on my career as an author.

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Categories // Flipped Fairy Tales, General News, Stuff, The Antigone's Wrath series, The Evolution Series, Updates, Writing Tags // Antigone's Wrath Series, Cover Reveal, evolution series, fairy tale, fantasy, Learn, MASTER OF MYTH, New Adult, release schedule, romance, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Romance, SciFi Romance, SFR, shadows on snow, steampunk, superheroes, the evolution series

Release Update: MASTER OF MYTH

09.23.2013 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

So, last week Thursday was Talk Like a Pirate Day. Around about eleven p.m., I was sitting around wondering why more people didn’t release pirate-themed books on that day.

And that’s when it hit me. Uh, I have a pirate book. I could potentially do that.

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Categories // General News, The Antigone's Wrath series, Updates, Writing Tags // Antigone's Wrath Series, Learn, MASTER OF MYTH, release schedule, Science Fiction, steampunk

Blog Tour Stop – STEEL LILY

08.15.2013 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

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Welcome one to my stop on the Steel Lily blog tour! I’m delighted to present you all with an interview with the author, Megan Curd, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at UtopYA this year. There’s a Rafflecoptersaurus  at the end of this post, so be sure to read all the way to the bottom! [Read more…]

Categories // Stuff Tags // blog tour, Dystopian, Megan Curd, Read, steampunk, Steel Lily

Cover Reveal – The Ministry Protocol!

08.08.2013 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

You may or may not remember my little story From Paris, With Regret, written for the Tales From the Archives podcast anthology, but it marked one of the most cherished accomplishments of my writing life to date. I am fortunate to count Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris amongst my friends, and to have them ask me to write a piece to accompany one of my favorite books of the last few years was unbelievable for me. The idea they greenlighted for me spoke volumes about their faith in my abilities as a writer, and, for that, I am ever grateful. I can’t think of many authors that would allow a complete unknown to create a backstory for one of two main characters for their signature series. Honestly, I still get a little teary with gratitude and amazement over this.

And so today, I am delighted and humbled to present to you the cover for their newest endeavor. Awhile back, Tee and Pip successfully funded a Kickstarter for a board game and companion anthology for their Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series.

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Categories // Stuff Tags // Alex White, Cover Reveal, Dan Rabarts, Delilah S. Dawson, Glenn Freund, Jack Mangan, Jared Axelrod, JR Blackwell, Karina Cooper, Lauren Harris, Leanna Renee Hieber, Learn, Peter Woodworth, Philippa Ballantine, Pip Ballantine, Science Fiction, steampunk, Tee Morris, The League of S.T.E.A.M., The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, The Ministry Protocol, Tiffany Trent

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