My quarantine novella is done and dusted 🙂 It’s around 23,000 words and now available on Smashwords and Amazon. I’m also halfway through my goal of publishing two stories this year.
The Dragon’s Mate is out!
Tag: magic
Last day to read The Witch’s Room for free!
Last day to read my short story for free on Amazon. After that, The Witch’s Room will remain in on Amazon until mid-year where you can then buy it on Smashwords as well.
If you’ve downloaded the story can you please leave a review. It doesn’t have to be long, just a few words.
My new short story is available on KDP Select.
The Witch’s Room is available on KDP Select. If you don’t have it, then it’ll cost you about 99 cents depending on where you live. This is my first time doing this and I want to see if it has any effect on my sales. I’ve read a bit about how some authors have increased sales once they use KDP Select so I’m going to try it as well.
I’m also doing a free promotion from March 22nd to the 26th. The KPD Select ends for this book on June 5 and on the 6th it’s going to be released on Smashwords.
The Witch’s Room: From start to finish
I completed the seventh draft of my short story The Witch’s Room and I decided that it was ready to be released into the world wide web with my name attached to it. It is currently under review on Amazon and should be up within 72 hours. At the moment I am only putting it on KDP select as a means of trying to get as many people to read it. If all goes well in a few months I’ll put it up on Smashwords 🙂
This story started with the visuals of a character entering the Witch’s Room. I thought that the scene was awesome and IÂ shouldn’t/couldn’t let it go. So I had to work out what needed to happen for this scene to occur in a story. So I wrote it down on my work notepad and when I got home I began working on it.
Looking back on the dates of my word documents, I had the first draft completed just before 5pm on the 15th of February. That’s less than a month ago! Since then I have drafted every 2-5 days. It only took me a few hours every time to draft because of how short it is (I was also working on other stories).
I think the most challenging thing about this process was picking the book cover image. I wanted to have a stone sculpture of a woman to portray the scene in the Witch’s Room. But I was very nitpicky about it. It had to be aged and not too ornate. But I couldn’t seem to find one that fit everything because a lot of stone sculptures of women from the past were of the Virgin Mary or Angels and had religious themes to it. You can see that I found an image as close as possible to what I wanted. It’s not how the statute looks in the story, but it’s the closest.
Draft 6 of The Witch’s Room is done
I did another draft of my short story. It’s only 6241 words long and I was able to go over it 90 minutes. It was mostly skimming through as it is pretty much done now. I just have to give it to some people to read and create a cover image.
Draft 5 of The Witch’s Room
Just completed another draft. There was less to do than the last one, but I still took out some sentences when I was just expecting to do individual words. I think with another edit it might be mostly ready 🙂 I also need to create a cover image. But I’ve almost picked one.
Draft four of The Witch’s Room
Draft 3 of my next short story
I did another draft of my next short story. I’m still trying to pick a name, but that can come later. I’m beyond the structural edits and now just onto line edits. Maybe two more drafts and it might be ready for publication.
It is now 6,277 words and five chapters long. It involves two sisters going to a witch’s commune seeking help and while there they discover the magical room created by the founder that has been closed off for generations. The genre is YA and a bit of semi-medieval fiction. It’s set in a medieval type world, but no exact time and location are given (think some time ago).
Stephanie Haggarty 