Five Years of Ambergrove … Now What?
While I’ve focused on healing—with extremely positive results!—nearly three months have passed, and 2025 is almost at an end. It’s been quite the hiatus, but it was necessary, and I have brief but exciting updates for 2026! First: What has happened? Well, after a cascade of crises, we had to back out of our last…
The Final Event of the Year and the State of the Future
It has been six months since my last update, and I figured it was time, even if it’s a bumpy one. Let’s get right into it. Big Brain Time I received my traumatic brain injury in January. At the last update in March, although the neurologist and memory care had told me that it would…
Authorly Advice 8: Handling the Possibility of an Incomplete Series—Just in Case
It has been a couple months since the last Authorly Advice blog, and that is due in part to this month’s topic: preparing series or worlds in the event that you may not be able to complete them in a timely manner (or ever). I should preface this by saying that this year began with…
Authorly Advice 7: Securing Your Work … or Setting It Free
Once our work is out there—or sometimes when we’re working on something to put “out there,” we begin to worry about securing it. There are so many outside threats to a creative work, and there so many situations that cause creators to clutch their proverbial pearls when they really should be embracing said situations. A…
Authorly Advice 6: Writer’s Block to Writer’s Wheel
May’s authorly advice comes from my experiences but also, by extension, comes from one of my neurology specialists I’ve been seeing for my brain injury this year. Anyone who has written has dealt with writer’s block in on form or another. We’ve spent hours or days just looking at a blank page or getting caught…
Authorly Advice 5: Events
For many authors, the only real way to get our books out is by attending events. Events look different for writers of every genre. In this blog, I’ll go over a few different types of events and what to expect from them, tools for smooth events, some no-nos of events, and some tips for getting…
Authorly Advice 4: Blurbs, Keynotes, and Keywords
This March advice comes in part from a workshop I held back in 2023. Today, I’ll be talking about writing the author blurb and the back cover blurb, creating a keynote, and selecting keywords. Author Blurb Provide targeted information about yourself. The About the Author gives you the chance to introduce yourself to your readers…
Publications, Events, and Other Updates
Hail, Adventurers! As we near the end of Q1 2025, I wanted to share some overall progress in important areas. Publications There are three projects that have been in the works since the past year, and all of those projects have updates. These have been posted elsewhere on the website or on socials, but here’s…
Authorly Advice 3: Editing for Non-Editors
The February advice blog comes from a workshop I ran in 2023. Aside from the actual writing, editing is the most important part of completing a book. You can market an edited book, but you can’t edit a marketed book. If you have to choose between paying for editing and marketing, choose editing. This doesn’t…
Benchmarks and Benching
2025 is a monumental year in many ways. This year is when I turn 30. It’s the benchmark by which society has determined to measure success. As an author, how do I measure up to that guide? Benchmarks I have been blessed in my capacity as an author and in Ambergrove’s bounty of adventurers. As…
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