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
How to Punctuate with Precision – A Helpful Guide for Indies How to Punctuate with Precision – A Helpful Guide for Indies By Megan Cutler | November 26, 2018 | Comments 1 comment Back in September, I put together a quick reference editing guide to help my fellow indies with their editing woes. I wanted to provide tools that would make the editing process easier. But I also wanted to help indies spot a skillful editor – a daunting task considering the wide variety of options. That guide … 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
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
An Imperial Daughter’s Woe – Eternity’s Empire Chapter 15 An Imperial Daughter’s Woe – Eternity’s Empire Chapter 15 By Megan Cutler | October 15, 2018 | Comments 4 comments It’s been absolutely delightful opening my writer’s notebook this year to share the developmental details of Eternity’s Empire. In case you missed it, I talked about Ganga over here, Amaterasu over here, Thora here and, finally Aphrodite here. So what’s left? Aeternitas of course! And I’m excited to finally talk about her because she’s probably … Read More Read More
Make Line Editing Easy – A Helpful Guide for Indies Make Line Editing Easy – A Helpful Guide for Indies By Megan Cutler | September 24, 2018 | Comments 3 comments The top piece of feedback I note in reviews of self-published fiction is lack of proper editing. We’re talking about line edits here; basic spelling, grammar and structure. This tends to be the first thing most readers notice, because it breaks up the flow and makes the story difficult to read. A high number of … 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
The Light of Eternity is Now Available in Paperback! The Light of Eternity is Now Available in Paperback! By Megan Cutler | September 17, 2018 | Comments 3 comments When I released the Mystical Island Trilogy paperbacks, I spent some time looking back over the experience of creating the books. It was a fantastic trip down memory lane and it allowed me to share a lot with my readers about how the books came to be. Now that Eternity’s Empire is ready to make … Read More Read More