hope – SE White Author

Adding AllAuthor to Your Author Toolbox

2023-02-08

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Blogging, Recommendations

Yes, there is BookBub.com. It’s right up there with the ginormous Goodreads as a top spot for recommendations and book lists. Pretty much every post or anecdote I’ve heard about BookBub emphasizes how amazing it is when it comes to promotion. I believe those posts, and I’m happy for those authors but . . . BookBub will promote you, and it will work, but it’s also common knowledge that it will cost you roughly an entire month’s worth of income. At least. If you’re…

Flaming Crashes, Foreshadowing, and Meaningless Points: #Author Life Post

2021-03-17

SE White

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Goals and Hopes, My Books, Plotters vs. Pantsers, Silliness, Writing Process

Or; Thoughts I have while working on the 2nd/3rd/multiple draft

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Gets Artistic (While I Crash Into a Reef)

2020-02-05

SE White

Blogging, Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Query Letters, Silliness, Writing Process

Welcome to another Insecure Writer’s Support Group day! To sign up for the Group yourself, join in on the fun and receive all the wonderful support, go here. The awesome co-hosts for the February 5 posting of the IWSG are Lee Lowery, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Jennifer Hawes, Cathrina Constantine, and Tyrean Martinson! Stop by their blogs and offer a thank-you for today. The optional question for today was: has a single photo or work of art ever inspired a story? What was it and did…

Be Proud of Your Writing: Author Toolbox

2019-09-18

SE White

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Critique, Goals and Hopes, Writing Process

You do you, and give yourself the credit for doing it.

One Good Way to Make Your Brain Leak Out Your Ears

2018-03-03

SE White

Blogging, Reviews

Switching from the free (.wordpress.com) website to a self-hosted (.com) site has a lot of support. For starters, there are plenty of how-to articles with step by step instructions. There are YouTube videos. The self-hosting service I chose (Site Ground) works with WordPress so that computer illiterate people, like me, only have to push a few buttons to make the transfer. Even with all of that, the whole thing took about six hours (I’m still not done tweaking the tiny…

The Magic of Manuscript Rejections: Part 5

2018-02-24

S.E. White

Blogging, Goals and Hopes, My Books, Query Letters, Silliness

The Query ship sets sail again this week! In batches of three, my latest begging letter will be heading out to seas unknown, trying to lure me in an agent. My first three letters for 2018 have already garnered me three rejections. Here be monsters (if you define monsters as a vicious cycle of hope and rejection, which I totally do.) In honor of the maiden voyage of my completed manuscript (New Adult, alternate universe, with a strong love story)…

Plotting, for Pantsers

2018-02-21

S.E. White

Plotters vs. Pantsers, Recommendations, Writing Process

Welcome to the 2018 #AuthorToolboxBlogHop and my first post for the hop! Come join in and post useful, helpful or interesting things for other authors. This blog hop is the brainchild of Raimey Gallant and you can sign up on her website. By inclination I’m a Pantser (Pantsers, Pantsers, Oi, Oi, Oi!) (That’s our motto) (I just made it up) I’ve read online about plotters who get their entire book, down to each and every scene, outlined to within an inch of…