http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog Erin M. Kinch's musings upon the writing profession Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back when I was on bed rest with darling daughter number two, I read Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. I've enjoyed all of JLB's books thus far, but I thought this one was particularly good. It had her verve and style, but it was more action packed, both ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/10/04/raised-by-wolves-series/ When I posted yesterday, I thought I'd found my favorite self-pubbed author (Barbara Pandos), but I was wrong. Thanks to some ill-timed caffiene, I had horrible insomnia last night, and my companion until 3:30 a.m. was Destiny Binds, by Tammy Blackwell (book 1 of the Timber Wolves trilogy). This is a ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/09/19/i-spoke-too-soon/ Since getting my Kindle (best first Mother's Day gift ever!), I've taken to stalking the free fiction available on Amazon.com. It's interesting what pops up there. Some good, some bad, and some just meh. And then I started noticing the self-published books that are available. For $0.99 to $2.99, you ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/09/18/finding-good-reads-in-self-published-books/ Every Day Fiction just published its August table of contents, and I'm not on it. How is that different from the last 12 EDF TOCs, you might ask? Well, it's not different. However, August is EDF's last TOC of the year. The fact that I have not been on any ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/07/31/the-end-of-my-streak/ When you are "with story," what is the first thing that comes to you? That germ of an idea. The one that seems much too small to spawn anything like a story or a novel. That little whisper in your ear, begging you to sit down at the keyboard. That ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/07/30/the-first-germ/ It's the end of an era. There will be no more new Harry Potter. The books are long done, and now the movies are, too. I got to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 tonight, and it was quite good. There's always a sense of loss when something ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/07/16/the-last-of-harry-potter/ How did I spend the holiday this year? Well, I spent time with my family and went shopping. Then, though, while the girls were down for their naps and my husband went out with his mother, I polished up a flash piece that I wrote during the writing group's Story ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/ For the first time since... I guess last spring... I have a couple of things out on submission. And there is one more that I queried about that I'm hoping to send out soon. I had forgotten that feeling of anticipation mixed with panic. I'd forgotten the urge to check your ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/03/21/submissions-the-waiting-game/ A lovely, thick envelope came for me in the mail the other day. I received it on my birthday, and what a great birthday treat it was. Inside the envelope was my contributor's copy of ResAliens #5, complete with eye-catching cover art and printed pages full of good stories. The second ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2011/02/10/publishing-updates/ Hello out there in blog-land. Sorry to have been so absent of late. The summer was even crazier than my usual life. I was in the hospital for several weeks with complications for baby #2. After our new daughter arrived, that brought a whole new level of hectic. How does anyone ... http://www.erinmkinch.com/blog/2010/10/06/catching-up/