Kate Spofford, author

Tag: Dreamwalkers

  • new year’s resolution and 2013 stats

    This year’s resolution is to write 500 words a day – that’s 1/3 of what I normally churn out a day during Nanowrimo, which makes it much more attainable.  I have several other writing-related goals for 2014: to finish and publish Dreamwalkers to finalize the print edition of Hitchhikers and offer a giveaway or two…

  • freebie weekend, and hello from camp!

    My two companions novels, Bethany Caleb and The Art Kids, will both be available for free this weekend, July 13-14!  (Of course, these are both always free for Amazon Prime members).  Also available are the print editions of both books. So the long holiday weekend totally decimated my word count, but I am still writing…

  • Camp Nanowrimo, here I come! (again…)

    So I’m off to camp again.  Last year was not a very successful venture, although I did get several thousand words written in Dreamwalkers. Since I’ve been having some difficulty getting myself writing as of late, I figured this is something I might need.  Plus, I am going to offer this as part of the…

  • in other news…

    In self-publishing news… My very first novel, Bethany Caleb, is now available!  So is The Art Kids!  It’s ridiculously easy to publish a book on Kindle.  Too easy.  Have I made a mistake?  Are there typos?  Probably…  It’s a scary thing to send your creations out there.  While in the privacy of my own home…

  • the mid-point reversal

    As I was working on Dreamwalkers Friday night, I realized that I am nearly at the point of the mid-point reversal. I didn’t know what a mid-point reversal was until I read Story Engineering by Larry Brooks.  At that point I looked at Hitchhikers and was pleased to find that I had instinctively included this…

  • writing is hard.

    There are so many distractions… so many things to see on the interwebs… I am watching Janina type away and maybe she’s thinks I’m writing too, but I’m not working on my novel like I should be… Today I read this article about authors who self-publish ebooks and are actually able to make a living…

  • I’m not sure, but…

    …is one hour of writing in the middle of a 3-hour “American Horror Story” marathon good? Still working on Dreamwalkers, and I wrote about 1,000 words.  Janina was on a roll so I had to keep writing (instead of immediately turning on the next episode, my remote control finger was getting itchy) a little past…

  • I was so proud of myself, and then…

    the rest of the week happened.  I did some writing on Sunday night (Dreamwalkers), feeling like, Yeah, I can finish this sequel (never finished a sequel before…), I’ll finish it and if I haven’t gotten Hitchhikers published by the time I finish it, I’m going to self-publish as an ebook.  I’m 26,000 words in, I’m…

  • i actually wrote a little today!!

    Wow, really?  That’s right, folks.  I wrote, like, two pages more on Dreamwalkers! But what I’d really like to talk about today is how freaking excited I am for the new season of American Horror Story. While I am disappointed that many of the major characters from Season One are not returning, nor will the…

  • Dreamwalkers cover fun

    The Camp Nanowrimo novel pages are now allowing covers, so of course I had to make one for Dreamwalkers.  Here’s my first attempt: This looks a little…. 50 Shades of Grey?  I suppose I could tint it a different color.  I liked the idea of the rumpled blanket looking like a landscape and you don’t…