Want More for your Easter celebration this year?

Try the MORE devotional blogs, daily, from Palm Sunday to Bright Saturday.

Here’s the link to the Palm Sunday post. Bookmark the page and return each day of Holy Week and the following Bright Week to discover More that you didn’t expect about Easter and living in today’s world.

M.A. Lee just released the video trailer promoting her newest Regency suspense in her Hearts in Hazard series. Watch The Hazard for Spies.

March achieves a rarity in the Writers Ink world. All three writers ~ M.A. Lee, Remi Black, and Edie Roones have anniversaries for novel publication.

In addition, Writers Ink Nonfiction also has a publication anniversary, which is our celebration today.

Discovering Your Novel

What kind of writer are you?  Planner or Plotter?  Pantster?  Puzzler?  Muse Muffin?

Whether you use the mosaic method or a chronological one, whether you outline every scene or let the words flow, the method does not matter.  What matters is the end goal.

So, what’s the end goal with your writing?  Just to write?  To publish?  Fame and fortune?

Plenty of frittery flutter-bys write and write and go nowhere.  As for fame and fortune, those can’t be guaranteed.

However, when your goal is publication, Discovering Your Novel is the guidebook to help you overcome the Sisyphean task of first word to publication.

With the goal of completing a novel in 52 weeks, this guidebook can be self-paced or tracked week by week for persistent success.

• If you have a half-completed manuscript that you’re lost in, use the Foundations and Visioning sections to work your way out of the labyrinth.
• If the story’s a mucky mire more like quicksand than a novel you can build on, use the Analysis section to clear away the mud and weeds.
• Like a long ball of string, the multiple charts will help you keep track of where you’ve been and where you will head next. Printable charts are available for free at the website address provided in the guidebook
• When you complete the manuscript, what do you do next? The sections on Harvesting and Finishing answer these questions as they guide you to creating a professional career as a writer.

Launch your writing journey at your current location on the publishing road—incipient idea or character sketches or story plan or struggling manuscript or completed novel looking into publication.

Track your progress with daily word counts recorded on the charts.

Learn the devices and definitions that pro writers have swirling in their heads.

Maintain the discipline and preparation that keeps pro writers at work, no matter the interruptions.

Writer M.A. Lee meandered along the road of unfinished manuscripts and completed novels with nowhere to publish for many years before she decided to drive to her own destiny.  If you’re tired of gatekeepers and pay-to-play schemes, if you’re weary of elitist traditional publishers and you’re eager to jump on the self-publishing juggernaut, then Discovering Your Novel will give the guidance you need.

On the 19th, Writers Ink celebrates the birthday of two fantasy novels: Remi Black’s Sing a Graveyard Song and Edie Roones’ Winter Sorcery.

Today, we look at Remi’s Fae Mark’d Wizard series with the third book Sing a Graveyard Song.

The icy mountains hold danger and death but not in the way that the wizard Alstera expects in the fantasy Sing a Graveyard Song.  Suspicious villagers, a resentful woman wielding sorcery, and a wizard intent on returning her to face justice are nothing compared to a blood-drinking monster.

Find it here.