by Site Administrator | Aug 17, 2017 | Author's Comments, Informational, Writing Process
A Season of Inspiration (Part 1): Growing up, the last gasp of a dying summer happened when I returned to school and was asked to describe “what you did over the break.” As an adult, I still find myself doing the same thing. Some years, especially when the kids...
by JTL | May 26, 2017 | Writing Process, Writing Updates
PUBLISHING DIARY: NEW BOOK RELEASE DATE IS HERE!!! Resurrection: The Beyond Thuria Trilogy Book Two is now available! The journey that started December 20th, 2016 has finally finished, and the next chapter of this now nine-book series is now available on Kindle...
by JTL | May 6, 2017 | Writing Process, Writing Updates
PUBLISHING DIARY: An end, a middle, and a beginning! The surprising non-linear way of writing a linear story can be a bit surprising. For example, take this weekend. Last week, the editors finished their work on Beyond: Conversion, and I made their updates to the...
by JTL | Feb 12, 2017 | Writing Process, Writing Updates
PUBLISHING DIARY: What to do when you are waiting? WRITE! Yes! New stories! Actually one short story already posted to www.jamestoddlewis.com, updates to another, and yet another story on the way! Okay, so before I get to other details, let me explain the image....
by JTL | Feb 11, 2017 | Writing Process, Writing Updates
PUBLISHING DIARY: Conversations with an editor! As I was spending time today going through the various issues found by my editor in the first seven chapters of Beyond 2: Conversion, when I thought that others might wonder what this process is like or what a good...
by JTL | Jan 31, 2017 | Writing Process, Writing Updates
PUBLISHING DIARY: What to do after the oh-no second… Euyep! I messed up! See, I completely finished my edits on the Beyond: Conversion this weekend and then started applying them to what I THOUGHT was the master edit copy. However, not so much in reality....
