An Art A Day – My Inktober 2018 Experience An Art A Day – My Inktober 2018 Experience By Megan Cutler | December 3, 2018 | Comments 2 comments It’s been a long time since I sat down to seriously draw a picture. I used to doodle all the time, and not just in the margins of my classroom notebooks. I used to love drawing pictures of my characters, even if I never considered myself any good. For the first three years of my … Read More Read More
Reading the Universe’s Signs Reading the Universe’s Signs By Megan Cutler | November 19, 2018 | Comments 2 comments Life gets away from you sometimes. You think you’ve got everything well in hand. You’re just trucking along, jumping the hurdles, making things work. And then you hit a speed bump. All the various packages holding all the disorganized building blocks of your life – the ones you keep precariously perched wherever there was room … Read More Read More
Behind the Veil – the Making of The Soul of the Earth Paperback Behind the Veil – the Making of The Soul of the Earth Paperback By Megan Cutler | November 16, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment Welcome back to one last behind the scenes look at Eternity’s Empire to celebrate the release of The Soul of the Earth in paperback! If you missed it, on Monday, I identified when the series abandoned the outline I originally wrote for it, and why that ended up being a good thing. I also spoke … Read More Read More
The Soul of the Earth is Now Available in Paperback! The Soul of the Earth is Now Available in Paperback! By Megan Cutler | November 12, 2018 | Comments 1 comment It’s only been two months since I released the paperback for The Light of Eternity, but I’ve decided to put out this series’ paperbacks as quickly as possible. I wanted to catch up so that when the third book goes live in December, people can get the digital and paperback copies at the same time. … Read More Read More
The Magic of Fantastic Portal Fantasies The Magic of Fantastic Portal Fantasies By Megan Cutler | November 5, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment Last week I talked about some of my favorite portal fantasies. And until I sat down to write that post, I had no idea how many I had read! As a result, I’d like to take a deeper look at portal fantasies and what makes them so magical. I’ve never been a huge fan of … Read More Read More
Awesome Portal Fantasy Novels that Spark the Imagination Awesome Portal Fantasy Novels that Spark the Imagination By Megan Cutler | October 29, 2018 | Comments 1 comment The first Portal Fantasy I ever read was Yon Ill Wind by Piers Anthony. It’s part of his Xanth series. (Not all of which are portal fantasies, though several include whisking unsuspecting mundane folk into the magical land of puns). In the book, a family vacation goes horribly wrong when a strong wind sweeps their … Read More Read More
My Work is Absolutely as Valuable as Yours My Work is Absolutely as Valuable as Yours By Megan Cutler | October 22, 2018 | Comments 5 comments The biggest struggle I face as an indie author has nothing to do with inspiration or even with sales. It’s time. There’s never enough time to complete all the tasks on my to-do list. Worse, I have to defend every second of that time from people who act as if my work should be finished … Read More Read More
It was a Summer of Wine, Musicals and Road Trips It was a Summer of Wine, Musicals and Road Trips By Megan Cutler | October 8, 2018 | Comments 2 comments This summer passed so quickly for my husband and I that our heads are still spinning. We tried to front-load all our travels so that we’d have a nice, quiet August. But often even the best plans are laid to waste. Then again, when your friends have a choice between crashing at your house for … Read More Read More
I Want My Choices to Matter I Want My Choices to Matter By Megan Cutler | October 1, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment Way back when this blog was young, I wrote about my love for video game choices that actually impact the outcome of the story. That was before the Mass Effect 3 debacle where the entire outcome of three games worth of story came down to the single press of a button. It was also before … Read More Read More
A Behind the Scenes Look at The Light of Eternity – Available Now! A Behind the Scenes Look at The Light of Eternity – Available Now! By Megan Cutler | September 21, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment To celebrate the release of The Light of Eternity to paperback, I spent some time Monday looking back at the initial creation process. I covered such topics as the original idea, the covers and the music I listen to while I’m working. Today I want to take a look at the planning stages and the … Read More Read More