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@gracie-j *bows* I would be honored to operate as the resident diplomat. And, um… black eyes aren’t the best way to resolve conflicts… *gently lowers your hand*

Ooooh. You shouldn’t have told me that. *chuckles* Now I may feel compelled to ask if you’d like to hear about how the enneagram works and why tests aren’t always accurate and why…[Read more]

@e-k-seaver LOL. I imagine Andrew Peterson and N.D. Wilson would be worth it, though. Especially if you can take a book along to keep you occupied during the boring sessions.

@gracie-j I’m a type 9! (Also a complete enneagram nerd, so… if you ever want to ramble about how the system works, I’m your girl. XD)

@leon-fleming Ooh! Tu apprends le…[Read more]

@leon-fleming Sounds like fun!

@e-k-seaver That’s super cool. I might have to see about tagging along with my grandma or my dad to more of those. XD (They both work in big homeschooling circles, so my grandma, especially, goes to a bunch of conferences.)

@leon-fleming That sounds cool! What real-world mythology did you use?

@e-k-seaver You’ve met both of them? Duuuude. That’s awesome. I would love to meet them someday (Peterson especially). Maybe they’ll be at RealmMakers whenever I finally get to go. XD

@seekjustice Calligraphy Guild was honestly sort of wish-fulfillment. XD There’s this group of indie authors I follow who work together and are friends and whatnot that I would love to be a part of one day, plus the idea of having an in-person community of authors who work together (which they are not; that’s just an additional impossible wish,…[Read more]

I actually wrote a whole blog post listing alternatives, lol, so if anyone wants additional options…

I’ll have to check out WriteTrack, too. That one’s new to me. 🙂

I haven’t yet decided whether or not to leave, personally. There are definitely compelling reasons to leave (as mentioned, heavy LGBTQ+ promotion and approaches to the race issue…[Read more]

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]