CathrynV

Take three… (KP doesn’t like my links.)

Website: rmarcher.com

Instagram: @rysaarcher

Goodreads: R.M. Archer

Do you have any links you’d like to share? 🙂

@e-k-seaver Congratulations! I’ll be praying! ^-^

@gracie-j Yep! Almost everything is virtual this year or I’d see if there was anything local to me. 😛

LOL. My oldest sister has mostly gotten used to me being weird with writing stuff, but if I ever made comments like that around my parents I think I’d get very weird looks. XD XD

Sounds good. XD

@gracie-j Ooh! I looked it up and apparently Indie Author Day is an actual thing on November 7th! 😀 (Or October 14th? Or 17th? Or… apparently it’s not actually consistent. :P) There’s a whole website and everything, and apparently libraries and bookstores are a big part of it. (I still want to organize some big online thing for next year and…[Read more]

Same here. XD I have soooo many characters to choose from. And my preference fluctuates, too, based on what I’ve been working on lately and what character types are my favorite at the moment…

But I suppose my current favorite would be the MC of my novel The Half-Elves, Leafman. (Yes, I know the name is weird. I made it up when I was seven and…[Read more]

@gracie-j I like to think that my more recent names are much more… name-like. XD

Yeah, consistency definitely helps. It makes things a lot easier to write. Nissa isn’t so consistent in that way–in fact, I didn’t even expect her to go nearly this dark–but once I understood why she was going off in a random direction and how she actually worked,…[Read more]

@gracie-j Yeah, romance can have a lot of those. XD

LOLLLL. Scarlette sounds amazing and terrible all at the same time. She seems like she’d be similar (as far as likability and whatnot) to my character Nissa. She drives me nuts and she’s kind of awful, but somehow still manages to be a… consistent enough character, I suppose? that I want her…[Read more]

@gracie-j

Ah, gotcha.

Yeah, it seems like it would work well.

That’s a bummer. Links are nice. 😛

Ooh… Most lovable idiot to read about… probably either Tink from The Wingfeather Saga or Pippin from LOTR. But those are just off the top of my head, because otherwise we could be here a while. XD

Most lovable to write about… Definitely…[Read more]

@gracie-j

Ah. Well, learning is fun! I’m currently studying French, so I was curious. 🙂

Oh dear. 😛

LOL. Cool! I’ll check it out. ^-^

That’s cool! The covers for The Codebreakers series and the Ladies of the Manor series are my personal favorite, but I guess those weren’t her designs.

Ooh, interesting! I hadn’t thought to do it the other way…[Read more]

@gracie-j

Exactly. A cover has to do so much: convey the genre and tone, hint at the plot, be high enough quality for people to assume the book inside is also high quality… (Of course… then there are those books that have beautiful covers and then the book inside is lousy. Those are always a bummer.)

I knowwww. So many characters are idiots.…[Read more]

I might have to adopt “overly observant” for myself, too. XD Whoever said “Don’t judge a book by its cover” either had never seen a truly awful book cover or was just extremely optimistic. XD XD Updating covers is fun! 🙂

Yeahhh, same here. ;P

*nods* It’s hard to turn off, isn’t it? XD I do the same thing. Not so much with plot and…[Read more]

(It’s bugging me that these quotes aren’t displaying right. ;P)

@gracie-j

Ooh, Tor does unsolicited queries? That’s cool.

That sounds like a good plan. ;D

I’d suggest waiting until you’ve finished editing, because your page count (and thus spine width) might change as you edit. You won’t have a finalized page count until you do all the formatting. But I understand the antsiness. XP

Yeah. XD That’s…[Read more]

Agreed. I’ve published two short story collections and a standalone short that way, and I plan for the majority of my books to be done that way. 🙂

Ooh, a list would be cool. (Even if I don’t use it for this book, it could be handy for the future.)

Yeah. XD I often stink at marketing, and I haven’t gotten very excited about it with my…[Read more]

@seekjustice Thanks! 🙂

@gracie-j Probably indie, through KDP. I’ve considered doing this one traditional, since that’s something I want to do someday, this is a standalone so I feel like it would work well as an “experiment,” and I would love for it to get the reach that traditional novels get. But I also don’t want to wait to hook an agent…[Read more]

This sounds amazing. XD

Yes! I’m actually super, super, super excited to publish it; I absolutely adore it and I can’t wait to share it. XD But I have to get through editing first… Which hasn’t actually been miserable–I enjoy editing, particularly when I love the project–it just takes too long. XD But I’m already daydreaming about…[Read more]

@seekjustice All of those sound super cool! I especially like the idea of the first one, but that might be influenced by some of my recent reads that fall along similar lines, lol. Very cool!

I have two primary projects at the moment:

1) My editing project, which I’ll be setting aside shortly, is about a group of calligraphers whose…[Read more]

Oh boy… Well… The premise is that the main character of book one assassinates a neighboring kingdom’s ruler based on false information, which begins a chain of events that end up with three nations at war with each other. Each book follows a notable character in a different one of those three nations and the books occur simultaneously.

As…[Read more]

My outlining process has evolved in the reverse of yours. XD I used to be a hardcore pantser. I could not outline, it always took too long and stinted my writing, and I never liked the end result. But after way too many unfinished stories I decided to try outlining again and now I’ve realized I work a lot better with a fairly detailed outline. I…[Read more]

@leon-fleming ONE DAY??? That’s seriously impressive. I don’t even remember how long it took me, lol.