Faith Kindred

@anne-of-lothlorien that’s wonderful news! I’ll keep praying for all of you. 😉

That’s good to hear, @anne-of-lothlorien. 🙂

@kate-flournoy Fyi, Fools In The Darkness comes straight from the theme as well.

“He walks up to the inner machine and opens the door where ten men are waiting for him. They have a foolish mission to do some good in a dark world and as fools they hope to succeed.”

@Daeus oh boy… 😛 Um. I have to say The Time Traveler’s Dilemma still takes the cake for me but if there really is another very popular book out there with a similar title, probably scratch it.
Fools in the Darkness… meh. Who wants to read about fools?
Key to the Future… I like it. It will probably grow on me. I especially like it because……[Read more]

@salome01w4g Haha! I’m still not sure I understand it all either.
I don’t know if it’s required for us bloggers or not. 🙁

@destiny do you have a link describing Google’s requirements or did you just hear about it through word of mouth?

@kate-flournoy @winter-rose @salome01w4g @corissa-maiden-of-praise Oh my! The debate continues. What I’ll probably do is poll my subscribers. So are there any of these you don’t like?

Corissa, it should be out in a little over a month.

@clairec
*peeks in with glittering eyes*
*grins evilly*
*laughs maniacally and brings the roof down in a shower of plaster*

I am the wrong person to ask about this. XD My WIP was roughly 535,870 words as a finished second draft. I’m still cutting, but it will never be the length of a ‘normal’ book. 😛

That said, 70,000 sounds about the kind of…[Read more]

No, he mine, I tell you. If any of you want him to be happy, then let him be.

@Hope unfortunately that’s not how it works. *scowls*

@Daeus ooh! I really like the Time Traveler’s Dilemma. Like, really like it.

@salome01w4g @seekjustice Hey!

So ‘http’ and ‘https’ are names of two protocols (computer rules) that govern how an internet document gets transmitted to your screen.

‘https’ means the web pages are secured against hackers.

So if Google is requiring sites to use ‘https’ I’m guessing they’re trying to protect sites from hackers. But I haven’t…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy @emma-flournoy @clairec @emily @josiahdeboer @northerner @graciegirl @catwing @winter-rose @dragon-snapper

I came up with three more ideas

1. Fools in the darkness
2. The Time Traveler’s Dilemma
3. Key to the future

For 1 and 3, I would probably have the subtitle “a time travel novel”.

Most YA novels are around 100k.

Playing the Numbers: Basic Word Counts

@clairec A lot of wordcount depends on genre. For a first time author, generally 60-90k is the way to go but some genres like fantasy/sci-fi are more like 90k-110k because of all the additional worldbuilding. My gut is that 80-100k would be fine for “historical fiction” since, like fantasy/sci-fi, there’s a fair bit of background information you…[Read more]

@Jane-Maree No, he mine, I tell you. If any of you want him to be happy, then let him be.

A few more collages:

This one is of a popup character in my novel, Fidelyon. His name is Cadoc and @kate-flournoy keeps trying to steal him from me.

This one is one of my side-kick characters, also from Fidelyon

And this is from another project completely.

@salome01w4g yay!! 😀 😀 😀

@salome01w4g I feel ya. 😛 Honestly I stopped deliberately looking… if I see one that looks good I’ll grab it, but it’s rare that they’re ever perfect. XD