Perilous Artifacts: Dressed for Success Pieter gabbled an inarticulate sound of protest, but Olive shook her head at him. She swiveled in her seat and demanded, “Can’t this rust bucket go any faster?” Harry gunned the engine and honked the horn at the produce truck trundling along ahead of them. With a loud steamy hiss,
Perilous Artifacts: Honey Comes First The slag glass roof of the lane arched overhead, high enough up that even the largest waste removal lorries and the tall streetcars could pass with ease. Every noise echoed redoubled off the rough glass walls, from the fishmonger’s cries of “Fresh fish ten pence apiece!” to the bootblack’s curt
Perilous Artifacts: Olive Goes Out Ten stories deep on the south side of Glasburyton in the poorest sept of the city, Olive tugged at the set of her jacket one last time, brushed a hand over the oddments attached to her belt, making them jingle, and readjusted her hatpin. In the flickering light of the
Perilous Artifacts: A Steampunk Adventure Perilous Artifacts is one of my works in progress that has been languishing on the story pile for a while. But now–I want to finish it. Because I believe that blogging should be fun, I thought that I would serialize at least some of this steampunk adventure story for you
Sometimes, the biggest cover design challenges are presented by the stock art, especially on the front cover, but not this time. The biggest challenge with the back cover layout for any book involves ensuring that text will be legible and clear over the background image. This turned out to be especially true for R. Marshall Wright’s newest book, Laura, Don’t Run!
R. Marshall Wright–Dick to his friends and family–has written another exceptional story. Here’s the blurb from the book:
I want to share two new book covers I’ve created for Author R. Marshall Wright. These are just two of the new book covers that I’ve created recently. Maybe I’ll get to share about the others as well soon. Since the same author commissioned these two covers, I thought I’d start with these two. I’ll
Write what you love now because later you may forget all about it. If you don’t write about it now, will you even remember what made it important to you ten years from now? And yet this passion has helped to shape who you are as a person. If you don’t love what you write, why should
What are some of your end of summer reads this year that have kept you turning the pages? I’ll tell you a few books I’ve read lately, and I hope you’ll leave a comment and share some of yours! They don’t have to be new books; they can be old favorites you’re re-reading. Great
Do you enjoy reading books? If so, which kind of reader are you? On my journey as an author, I have encountered five distinct kinds of readers: devoted friends, book fans, frenemies, critical readers, and encouraging editors. A Devoted Friend: You might be a devoted friend if you love everything an author friend has written because they’re your friend! That friendship is