Jodi Maile

@daisy-torres

Ooh, a free book! I’ll totally take you up on that. I’ve been meaning to start reading a bit again XD

@godlyfantasy12 Hey, those sound great! I’m really intrigued by the first idea, and the second sounds like an interesting and fresh way to dive into a fairytale retelling.

I’m currently writing a series of short stories that are either fairytale retellings (that I come up with ideas for at random times lol) or are just random ideas that I come up…[Read more]

@writerlexi1216

Ooh, I really like A.M. Williams. It does feel similar to L.M. Montgomery, which is also an elegant-sounding name. Alexa Williams sounds pretty too, though. In the end, I think it’s up to you and what you like best. I don’t know if the pen name would really matter unless you had already published a bunch of stories in a genre that…[Read more]

@molly

Hi Molly! Welcome to Kingdom Pen! My name is Jodi and I write fantasy and historical fiction, as well as some dystopian fiction when I feel like it. Some of my favorite authors are Tolkien, James Scott Bell, and Andrew Peterson. In my spare time, I try to write one short story a month, and some of my hobbies are bicycling, paddle boarding,…[Read more]

@faith-q Of course! I’m glad I was able to help 🙂

@gracie-j Haha no worries! And yes! I learn a lot from movies, so a lot of my tips have to do with watching them (also it’s fun to dive back into old favorite films…)

@faith-q Thanks for tagging me and so sorry I missed your sprint! I’m glad you finished your chapter!

@godlyfantasy12

Ugh, I totally feel this struggle. It does get more difficult to handle characters transitioning to a new world when there is more than one of them, as well. It isn’t impossible, it just gets more challenging.

It sounds like the characters are waking up to a day where there may not be much else to do aside from introduce them t…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12 Wow! I loved this poem, you did such a great job with it. I was also surprised to hear that you don’t write poetry–this is really good!

Now, this is coming from an amateur in poetry, so disregard my comments if they don’t apply:

I noticed that there is no exclamation point in the second “Evil queen! Evil queen!” section here (I…[Read more]

@faith-q That sounds like an interesting character! JC and Issabelle have already said most of what I was going to say, so here are a couple little tips I have for you (and @gracie-j too!):

I suggest you take a look at the stories you mentioned and watch/read them with a notebook on hand, writing down what stands out to you the most about the…[Read more]

@nanisnook

Of course, and thank you so much for letting me read your story! I had a lot of fun and I think your chapters are off to a great start! 🙂

@joy-caroline

Hi JC! I have also always thought I would go the traditional route, but I’ve recently decided that self publishing is for me. This has been a long road to this decision (over ten years now!) and I’ll explain why I think self publishing is the way to go:

I thought that traditional publishing would help market my books for me. Sur…[Read more]

A few other notes because I apparently can’t keep them all in one post

It has occurred to me that no war was mentioned, and that I assumed there was a war because Ember’s brother was in the army and Ember’s family kept a bunch of weapons around. So, disregard my comments if there is no war…

Also, your sword fighting scene was great! I was act…[Read more]

Hi @nanisnook! I finished reading your chapters and wrote up some of my thoughts:

I really liked your chapters. Ember is a likable main character and her brother is also likable! I did feel a bit like the chapters went by pretty quickly with a lot of action (which was nicely done, by the way!) but not quite as many internal moments to pause and…[Read more]

@typewriter77 Yay! Another Redwall fan! I’d also love to get my hands on their recipes…