Celebrate the Holidays and Avoid the Paper Shortage!

  Avoid the paper shortage by shopping early. At Writers Ink, we have several offerings.

Especially of the five books we are celebrating during November and December.

With 2 more releasing these months ... and no links as of this writing. (We'll put them in ASAP!)

Check it out here: https://writersinkbooks.com/celebrate-book-anniversaries-with-writers-ink/

Celebrate a Book Birthday!

Winter Sorcery, book 3 in the Seasons in Sansward, is now three years old.

When a Gitane WitchMaster pursues two Frenc spies who stole a sphere of power, can a half-trained mage and a simple temple cleric help them escape?

Ebook only https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BK88CDV

I4W ~ Pick Paperback or Ebook

Just Released! The boxed set for any writer needing to Just Start Writing, Write a Book in a Month, and Enter the Writing Business!.

What is *Enter the Writing Business*?

How do I succeed at writing? 

Most answers to that question focus on creativity ~ story development, character explorations, poetic contemplations, blogging topics, and more.

Business needs to be added to that list.

Refine the question ~ How do I succeed at the writing business?

Even our refined question can be divided into several.

A] What are the best systems for writers?

B] What are the best daily procedures?

C] The best ways to balance creativity and practicality?

These are the first decisions to build a writing business.

Think of writing as running a small business. Writers create content ~ stories, poems, blogs, any of our writing. That content is our product to sell.

As creators of quality products, we have a Writing Biz.

Imagine a writing career. What is the reality? No, not the fantasy. What will the actual day-to-day writing life be?

Daily writing requires that we find ways to cope with the soul-suckers who interfere with your creative energies.

Enter the Writing Business offers the reality of the writing career.

This guidebook is a series of posts on the daily creative process and the daily devotion to writing before it transitions to business decisions. We look at the necessary writing space then the essential hard and soft skills. To succeed, though, we need a business plan designed for writers. That biz plan will direct our daily actions, weekly plans, and monthly reviews and previews :: the Do’s that few consider until swamped by the constant Do-ing of them.

This guidebook is more than a tossed life preserver. With the practicalities discussed here, you can avoid the swim across the channel and build a bridge to cross from newbie to pro writer.

As part of the five-year publication anniversary of her first book, Edie Roones filled last August  with a blog series about these basic business decisions. The last two posts in the series chatter about the Hell and Heaven of Writing to answer every writer’s constant unspoken question: Is it worth it?

Most new writers drop out before the five-year mark. Edie Roones (a pseudonym of a professional writer who has published over 25 books) began her commitment to writing in 2012. “I’ve made mistakes,” she says, “but I’m seeing better results every day.” Avoid those mistakes in actions and expectations, and achieve success applying the lessons in Enter the Writing Business.

Roones’ fantasy series of Seasons in Sansward includes Summer Sieges, Autumn Spells, and Winter Sorcery. Write to Edie at winkbooks@aol.com

The other books in Inspiration 4 Writers are Just Start Writing and Write a Book in a Month.

Writing Update!

 What on earth is happening with my pseudonym Edie Roones?

I hope to finish the Seasons in Sansward quarternary this year.

I'll start with updating the first books ~ 

Summer Sieges in August

Autumn Spells in November

Winter Sorcery in February of 2022.

By then, Spring Magicks should be finished. Look for this novel in early Spring of 2022 ...

... followed very closely by the bundled set, cover image here! (It helps to have the cover. That inspires me and prods me to write the novel.)

Ever Thinking

Then I'm heading off in a new direction, a contemporary mystery series of which I have the scantiest idea.

Mysteries have been kept tied to my M.A. Lee pen name, but those are historical mysteries ~ and I want to keep that focus. Edie Roones doesn't have a lot of titles. Since I want a different feel for the contemporary mysteries, I'll use ERoones for publishing.

I know this: since I can't sustain humor without feeling like a rollicking wheel barrow (I toppled over rather quickly ~ my weakness!), I won't attempt the cozy, or at least not what the cozy has turned into. I'm looking for something a little more "Dame Agatha" in tone. 

However ~

Who knows what will happen as this year advances? 2020 was the corona-coaster.

Looking ahead while we're still here in January, how will 2021 work out?