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What Am I Doing, You Ask?

March 8, 2022 by Cameron Leave a Comment

You didn’t, but that never stopped me from answering…

I’m writing! I’m wrapping up a ghostwriting project that I might even get to tell you about someday!

I’m writing! I started working on a new full-length, stand-alone novel. It’s got:

  • 👱🏻‍♀️fat heroine
  • 🎤musician hero
  • 💞high school sweethearts
  • 🥈second chances
  • 🐾a rescue pug named Guillermo

I’m writing! I put up a little story noodle on Patreon. I’m going to keep doing that there for the time being. It’s available to Tiers 2 and up. Come check it out if you’re into supporting creatives financially between releases.

I’m not narrating! Amy Jo Steele is, and Buck’s Landing will finally be available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes in short order!

I’m Tweeting! I dipped a toe into TikTok (yikes!), I’ve more or less walked away from Facebook, except for big announcements, and Insta is just…not holding my interest lately. But Twitter has been a huge distraction of late.

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Filed Under: Authorlife Tagged With: new release, romance author, writing

Into the Woods

June 18, 2021 by Cameron Leave a Comment

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t have to keep it all spinning all the time.

Wait.

I needed to hear that.

I don’t (usually) publish fast. This we know, but I also work two part time jobs and a freelance gig to pay the bills. I have a family and a few hobbies. Since last March, my family has been very cautious about our stay-at-home efforts. We cancelled our 2020 summer travel plans. We stayed put until it was deemed safe to do more than go out for groceries, and even then, we kept it to small groups we could manage outdoors. Our close families, one other like-minded family we teamed up with to survive the summer, the little pod we meet on the outdoor range to draw bowstrings with at the archery club…

Even with stay-at-home orders and school closures, I spin a lot of plates. Guessing you do, too.

I work from home. My husband can’t always, but he does when he can. Our son is home with me. The chickens do their best to keep me entertained, but I know I’m not alone when I say:

It was a lot. I was lonely. I missed my friends. I was tired of my own thoughts and the increasing anxiety over school and the looming cold season and the election and social media and ohmygodIamscreaminginsidemyheart…

Last August, our survival team friends invited us to go camping with them.

::backstory break:: I grew up far more outdoorsy than I’ve become. Girl Scouts, camp, fishing, canoeing, tents, rifles, rambles and splashes in the woods, campfires, dirt and bugs, all of it. I fell out of the habit somewhere along the last few decades, tired of the smell of musty, poorly cared-for tents from the supply shed and eating dinner made with ingredients flooded by splashy Brownies with canoe paddles. I declared myself done and moved on. I did not figure I would find myself ever craving the gentle filter of morning sunlight through evergreen trees, or the smell of a starry night in the dog days of summer, again::

Twenty-one year old me never imagined the possibility of the fifteen months we’ve just been through. Sweet summer child. 

Next week, I’ll release the third novelette…novella? Short novel? book in the Green Mountain Hearts series. I’ll start working on a few new things, new stories, new pen name for a new genre, maybe? New mediums, definitely. Lots of plates, but I am grateful to my friends who knew me better than I knew myself, and forced me to set them down.

Next week, I’m releasing a book, then going back into the woods for a few days, and I can’t wait to tell you more when I get back.

Filed Under: Authorlife, Personal Tagged With: Camping, covid-19, Green Mountain Hearts, I don't know who needs to hear this, writing

How to Publish a Novel in 18 Steps

June 25, 2020 by Cameron Leave a Comment

  1. Draft 50,000 words in two mad months. Convince self you are literary giant.
  2. Lose focus, shelve draft for three years.
  3. Discover the entire secondary plot is crap. Scrap it.
  4. Rewrite over 18 months. 65,000 words of plausible nonsense.
  5. Discover the entire new secondary plot is crap. Scrap it.
  6. Rewrite over another year. Convince self you are not bonkers to have done so. 75,000 words.
  7. Decide to publish in six months. Actually tell people that.
  8. Get solid notes from beta readers. Rewrite. 82,000 words.
  9. Panic. How is the book getting LONGER?
  10. Gain beta reader approval. Send out for copyediting.
  11. Get edits back. Fix eleventy-million things. Send out for proof copy printing.
  12. Send uncorrected digital proofs to selected readers.
  13. Get proof in mail. Squeal like your tween self at an NKOTB show.
  14. Read through proof in horror: So. Many. Wrongs.
  15. Apply 427 sticky-note edits to proof.
  16. Implement changes to book files.
  17. Remember when Chef Louise said you eventually have to stop f*cking with it.
  18. Click ‘Publish.’

An earlier version of this post originally appeared April 3, 2015.

Filed Under: Authorlife Tagged With: how to write a novel, humor, writing

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