Holiday Book Sales
Surprise discounts, and sign up for my marketing workshop
News
Books
I have a few sales going on!
I’m participating in the Smashwords Winter Sale, so you can find a variety of my ebooks at a 50% discount. Sale lasts until Jan 1st, 2025!
My SciFi collection, Tomorrow and Beyond, is part of the Kobo VIP sale through Dec 27th. 40% off with the code VIPSAVE
Events
I was on a podcast! I had a delightful chat with Jim from The Hydrant Podcast, where we talked about short story writing and Capricon, a SciFi convention I’ll be at in February. I should have my schedule for the con by mid Jan, and will 100% share it.
I’m gearing up for my author marketing workshop at Glen Ellyn on Jan 11th (please sign up for the zoom if you can’t make it in person) and then the library’s Emerging Author Expo on Jan 25th!
Gwen’s Writing Gossip
Slowly building my query list and attacking it for The Adventure List - one rejection so far, but I’m not discouraged! I’m hoping to spend some of the holiday period reviewing agents and submitting more queries.
I have a few edits to make for the internal file for the Journey to Adventure anthology, but it’s looking good! Atticus is so easy to work with, I swear.
I shared in my last newsletter some of the changes I’m doing for 2025 - namely sharing more fiction here versus just on my KoFi and trying to write around a theme. That poll is still up for another two days!
Book Recommendations
Still trying to hit my book goal of 35 (I’m on 31). I’ve got a few in-progress reads I’m hoping to complete when home for the holidays, but also recently enjoyed This Was Our Pact, a middle-grade graphic novel about friends who have adventure following the lanterns released during a local ceremony. They have a slew of adventures, meeting a fishing bear, a local potioneer, and discovering a star farm in a cave.
What was your favorite read of 2024? Mine was When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill.