Writer’s Stress: How do you spell relief?

Writer’s Stress: How do you spell relief?

Since my last critique meeting with my crit partners I have been spending a lot of time looking just like this woman. Head in hands, ideas being tossed out the realm of possibility. I do not mean to say that my crit partners sent me into a tailspin, not at all. I mean to say that my book has done this to me. Writing a book, first draft anyway, is very freeing. It’s almost carthartic. You are getting things written, you are feeling creative, you have a spring in your step, and a whistle on your lips. But when it

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Goodreads Giveaway

Goodreads Book Giveaway An Unexpected Performance by Kim Smith Giveaway ends February 27, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win

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Buy links for Treehouse

A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court buy links As you guys know, I recently had a short story accepted by Seventh Star Press for inclusion in an anthology. It is now available for Kindle, as well as other ereaders and also in print. You would be doing me a great honor by buying a copy (buy links below). I would also love to hear what you think about my story, Treehouse. Perhaps I will do a post soon about the writing of Treehouse, and how submitting for inclusion in an anthology is a good thing. Most authors out

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BUY LINKS FOR UNSEELIE COURT!

UNSEELIE COURT CLICK TO BUY ON KINDLE CLICK TO BUY FOR NOOK The Fey have been with us since the beginning, sometimes to our great joy but often to our detriment. Usually divided (at least by us silly humans) into two courts, the second volume of A Chimerical World focuses on the Unseelie Court: the court we humans seem to view as the “evil” faeries. But “good” and “evil” are human concepts and as alien to the Fey as their mindsets are to us. Inside you will find 19 stories that delve into the world of the faeries of the

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An Unexpected Performance is on SALE!

An Unexpected Performance is on SALE!

My YA fantasy, An Unexpected Performance, will be on sale beginning tomorrow morning at 8 am. You will be getting a 41% savings by getting it during this special 24 hour sale. The cost is going from 5.00 to 2.99 for Kindle. (remember you only need the Kindle app on your e-device to be able to read Kindle books!) Click here for link to sale site. I hope you will get yours! the sale runs from 8 am Friday through 8 am Saturday. Merry Christmas!

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