When I thought of becoming a writer, I imagined spending hours writing a book and many more editing and polishing it until it matched my standards. What I didn’t foresee was how many collateral things I would have to learn. If you become a self-published power machine, you must do it all yourself until youContinue reading “To be indie – not as I imagined”
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Sunday Snippet – Spring Blight
Slowly rising, the witch created a shield in her mind. The mirror spell Skarbnik taught her in the Grey mountains had already saved her life once before, and with her mind protected, Ina felt more confident about facing the malicious spirit in her own domain. ‘Leave her,’ The witch commanded, pulling out her sword. MamunaContinue reading “Sunday Snippet – Spring Blight”
Spring Blight – Cover reveal
“Chaos and the wicked soul know no rest.” (Old folk proverb) Ina has no time to enjoy domestic life with Mar. As soon as life settles down after the Winter War, King Rewan calls his Royal Witch to give her a new task. Southern rebellion, crops dying, and an endless stream of assassins attacking theContinue reading “Spring Blight – Cover reveal”
To me to you and a bit of paranoia
Last week wasn’t kind to us. First, I caught tonsillitis then Mark started coughing, and we passed the infections to each other, leaving us both feeling incredibly miserable. This, of course, affected our work and the release schedule so we are now so far behind I am worried we may not achieve the April releaseContinue reading “To me to you and a bit of paranoia”
Happy New Year Everyone!
What the year it had been. We left 2022 behind with two big books published and several short stories. We built our subscriber list from 0 to 800. We have people from all over the world signing up for ARC reading the books, and I learned a helluva lot about image manipulation, book typesetting, theContinue reading “Happy New Year Everyone!”
Things went not as I expected
When your expectation and reality spectacularly collide – I think I learned my lesson. We, or rather I, have high expectations from the Winter Dragon release. Sometimes you feel the book is fantastic, and you wait for everyone else to appreciate your ‘baby’. The problem is no matter how great the book is, without goodContinue reading “Things went not as I expected”
Season’s War artwork
My pre-release anxiety resulted in AI- artwork I made for the series. Tell m what you think, and remember Winter Dragon release is in 24h
Another day, another round with Amazon plus Giveaway ;)
Goodreads Book Giveaway Winter Dragon by Olena Nikitin Giveaway ends December 23, 2022. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway First let me congratulate our Christmas with Olena Giveaway winners: You will get the email with information how to get the reward in the next few hours. It is also my plasure to announceContinue reading “Another day, another round with Amazon plus Giveaway ;)”
Snippet time – this time from Spring Blight third book in the series.
Plus bonus illustration from Winter Dragon (pre-order HERE 😋) Everyone was already there when she entered Rewan’s office, but to her surprise, the king looked anxious. It was rather odd, as he kept a straight face in the direst of circumstances. Mar and Kaian had already dived into military strategy, evaluating it from every angle,Continue reading “Snippet time – this time from Spring Blight third book in the series.”
’tis Amazon malarky gave me an ulcer.
Yesterday was a day when I use all anti reflux medications we have at home. Had panic attack, meltdown, rage fit and cold overhelming fury … right before I sorted the issue. So what happen. Well, indie authors knows the pleasure to publish via the Amazon KDP. It is easy, it is handly it opensContinue reading “’tis Amazon malarky gave me an ulcer.”