Tag: Renna’s Crossing

  • My First Published Book, One Year Later

    If you\’ve arrived here from one of the many links I attached to my social media posts, you already know that my YA contemporary fantasy novel Renna\’s Crossing is one year old today! It seems like an occasion worth observing, if not celebrating. The timeline feels a bit skewed for me– The story is one year old…

  • Renna’s Crossing is Officially Published!

    At the time you\’re reading this, my first full-length novel, Renna\’s Crossing, has finally reached its official publishing date of October 29th, 2020. I had mixed feelings about the date when it was first decided way back in March of this year. I\’m happy that the book came out in October, a wonderfully autumnal month…

  • Publish or Perish: Finding an Artist

    It\’s been a little bit since my last update. I think I\’ve already come to terms with how I\’m not the kind of person who does journaling in a natural kinda way. I know that it\’s probably one of those habits that needs to be built up over time, but that process is also something…

  • Publish or Perish: Cover Story

    I\’ve made some headway in my search for a graphic designer/cover artist for Renna\’s Crossing. I finally got myself to sit and scroll down through tumblr tags that matched the general aesthetic I\’m going for with Renna. That resulted in a list of 11 potential artists and illustrators; now the selection process begins. And that…

  • Publish or Perish – Journal Entry 10/28/19

    It\’s finally time to the thing I told myself I was gonna do many times before, far too long ago. Attempts at publishing Renna\’s Crossing through traditional means seem to have run their course. I don\’t recall the exact number, and I don\’t have the spiritual fortitude to pop open a new tab and check,…

  • Dev Diary 4/5/19

    My second post for Chaotic Youthful went up tonight on Arnamantle\’s Twitter and Instagram, as well as my personal Tumblr and Pillowfort. I should probably get around to linking those first two to the site here. Both of those accounts are still brand new, so they don\’t have any followers. Publishing a project like C_Y…