Announcement ~ Indie Way

Hello Lovely People,

I hope you all are enjoying your day. I have a brief quick announcement. Starting now the Indie Way posts have moved permanently to my website.

Click The Indie Way to get all my advice that I have learned and pass to you on the Indie Way blog. It will be updated upon request when asked regarding a certain topic I didn't post yet.


TTYF,
XoXo

💜R

Legacy Origin

Hello beautiful people,

I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Friday. I thought I should give a teaser of Rise Of The Legacy. Below is the origin story.

Excerpt from Rise Of The Legacy: The Origin Story.

Azalea Larkspur fell in love with the purest human soul on planet Earth Oriyon Vanhorn. After giving birth to Odin she felt he would need a wife when he got older. So she took an essence from Odin's soul spirit and heart, two ribs, and soil from the heavenly realm of A share and created his wife Freya. When Freya and Odin got older they gave birth to a baby girl Heva Esimina Vanhorn. Before giving birth to Heva, Azalea told Odin and Freya they are not to step outside of Asgard during the duration of Freya's pregnancy or drink nectar of wisdom from Nectar Falls in Asgard. Odin and Freya left the Garden of Paradise in Asgard and went into the human world to the beautiful island known as Valhalla. When they returned to Asgard they were tired and thirsty they drank from the nectar. Azalea was angry and banished them to Valhalla for 343 years. Heva inherited all of Azalea powers that was passed down through Odin and Freya, but the next 5 children would only inherit one powerful element they will be known as the Valkyries. After Odin and Freya's earthly sentence they returned to Asgard. Heva was to rule over the Valkyrie descendants.

I hope you enjoyed this origin story.

TTYF
XoXo

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POAH - Simplicity Outline

Hello Beautiful People,

Good morning, I hope you have a blessed day today an abundance of happiness follows you through your day. I hope you are kicking your weekend off to a great start. I have updates...for you! 😄 ROTL is nearing closer to final editing stage. I am currently writing the first draft of VL2: Trials of the Lost. In the meantime I have finished the simplicity outline for POAH and I would like to share this Sneak Peek or should I say Teaser with you.

Phase 1 Of Outlining
Simplicity Outline
Pages Of An Hourglass

ACT I - Book OF Destiny

Prologue: The Prophecy
Chapters (1-10)

1 - Lit Society
2 - Whispering Dreams
3 - Magicks and Mayhem
4 - 16th Birthday
5 - Revealing Eyes
6 - Unraveling Truth
7 - The Watchlings
8 - Fortune Tellers Never Lie
9 - The Ancient Song
10 - Book of Destiny

ACT II - Girl Of The Prophecy

Chapters (11-20)

11 - Unwelcoming Woods
12 - Cabin Of Secrets
13 - A Historical Tale
14 - Fragrance Of Lies
15 - Darkbloom
16 - Prince & Deception
17 - Prophecy
18 - Lands Of Trials
19 - Destiny
20 - Lingering Questions

ACT III - Choices Of Fate

Chapters (21-30)

21 - My Mother's Palace
22 - The Royal Families
23 - Deception
24 - Betrayal
25 - Eyes Of My Sister
26 - Season's Maze
27 - A War To Unite
28 - Song Of Cries
29 - Death By Destiny
30 - Rewriting Choices
Epilogue: Fated Ever After

I hope you enjoyed the sneak peek of Pages of an Hourglass. It will be released before VL2: Trials of the Lost.

TTYF

XoXo,

💜R

The Writing Rituals Tag

Hello Lovely People,

Good morning, I hope you all are having a lovely morning day and kicking the weekend off to a great start. You guys know how I love writing tags and book tags, and I created one myself not too long ago Liscense To Spill Author Confession writing tag, so it's not surprising that I decided to do the tag that Kim Chance and Mandi Lynn came up with.

Writing Rituals Tag

1. When do you write?

• I usually write at night.

2. How do you seclude yourself from the outside world?

• I usually put on headphones and listen to film score playlist, but I am thinking of creating a film score playlist that suits the tone of each current WIP.

3. How do you review what you wrote the previous day?

• I edit as I go most of the time, but every couple of chapters Reread what I've written. I decided not too long ago that I would use track changes make notes and go back and edit later and color the flaw in that area, but continue writing that way it will be easier to edit later.

4. What is your go to song when you are feeling uninspired?

• 'Up'- Star Darlings, Rise Up - Andra Day, 'Reach For Your Drams' - Photoronique, 'Blessed and Unstoppable' - Billy Alsbrooks

5.What do you do when  you find yourself struggling with writer's block?

• Step back and do some reading, research, take a small break, meditate, and go back to it with fresh eyes, and pray that what I need to make the story will come to me as I write.

6. What tools do you use when when writing? 

• Word and sometimes my notebook journal where I took notes and/or print outs of my outline, character profiles, research/story info.

7. What's the one thing you can't live without during writing sessions?

• When I can do it I will have a small snack bowl full of snacks I like for when I take breaks, but now its whatever I choose to eat during breaks.

8. How do you know when you're done writing?

• Tough to answer, but I guess when I express and execute the significance well and I feel like I done all I wanted and planned for that story. I feel the significance you want come across to the reader is one of the most important aspects when writing a story.

I hope you enjoyed my answers on this tag.

I am tagging all writers. Enjoy!😉

TTYF

XoXo,

💜 R

The Wattpad & Freebies

Bonjour my lovely people,


I hope you lovely people are kicking off your weekend to a great start. I am still in the editing process of Rise Of The Legacy. Lyrical Heart is finished just needs a professional edit. I have news!!! Soon I will be running a poll on Twitter for VL 3 book title when I start outlining VL 3. In other news  for those who keep up with me recently I said I would make  a post about plans I have for what I plan to use wattpad for in the future. So here is the post. I have decided that I will use wattpad for book excerpts for upcoming book releases and free short stories that will be available as free ebooks on Amazon.

TTYF,

XoXo,

💜R

The Status Report!!!

Hello Lovely People,

I hope you are making a splash into the weekend. It has been a little while since my last post. I have been a busy little bee working on my book Rise Of The Legacy. Looking for editors for ROTL and LH. I also been looking for beta readers and doing some personal edits and making sure I don't have any plot holes. I am still in the editing phase of ROTL. I had an inspire idea not too long ago about 'world-crossing' setting so they work for several book series so I have been tweaking the ROTL, POAH, and Eden. Later down the line I will at some point do a series and the MCs will be Alyssa twin sisters  and another maybe MC being Yvonne's twin brother as of right now its just idea for two spin off series that's not in development. I have been working on my Two Books One Goal Campaign. I have also been deciding which book projects out of my open and new projects I want for self-publishing and which projects I want to go into traditional publishing with. Speaking of which I have created a new page on my website, Book Projects Status Report so you don't always have to refer to the FAQs plus I color coded the projects so you can know the status in real time. I thought it be a fun way to know the status of current and upcoming projects. Easy updates...simplifying the latest update with the BPSR (Book Projects Status Report), so I hope you enjoy. Authors  if you like it feel free to try it for your projects.

TTYF,

XoXo

❤ R

Voices Of YA Tag

Bonjour You Lovely Beauties!!!

I hope you all kicking your weekend to wonderful start! You know how I just ah-dore writings I create my own original writing tag, #LicenseToSpillAuthorConfession not too long ago inspired by writing tags I participated in and sorta of a belated valentine's day present to all the writer's that have been kind, sweet, and supportive. I found out about about this writing tag when an author I admire Kim Chance (author Keeper) participated in the same tag in vlog that I watched of hers. Thanks Kim for tagging all writers. She tag all writers and I looked the Voices of YA tag created by Caitlin Lambert.  I decided I would participate. Writing tags are really fun so I wish alot more author would participate in them. 😊

VOICES OF YA TAG

by: Caitlin A Lambert

#VoicesofYA

ABOUT THE WRITERS:

What draws you to YA?

I have always loved YA fiction mainly because it has just enough of adult and just enough of teen, but most of all I love the coming of age element that is in most if not all YA.

Describe your writing process. Do you like outlines and structure, or seeing where the story takes you?

I am a half and half I do basic outline and structure and then afterwards I see where the story takes me and refer back to the outline.

How long have you been writing? Where are you in your journey?

If you count book writing about 7 or 8 years if you saying forms of writing then quite awhile I did alot of poems and songs when I was in middle school about 5th or 6th grade.

I am currently crowdfunding to promote and publish the revamping of my debut YA fantasy fiction novel Rise Of The Legacy (formerly Entrapment) in the Valhalla Legacy series and my anthology Lyrical Heart (formerly Rhythm Of The Garden) on GoFundMe. I am also currently working on outlines for my next two book projects. I am trying to figure which book projects outside of the Valhalla Legacy series is the best to break into traditional publishing with and when would be the best time to break into traditional publishing. I know for sure I want the Society Girls series and The Dragon's Assassin series to be under traditional publishing.

 What do you need to write? Coffee? Music?

I need a great film music score that is atleast 4-6 hours because that's about as much time I spend on writing in a single day although sometimes longer. 

If you could offer one piece of advice to another writer (OTHER THAN “don’t give up”), what would it be?

Ignore naysayers and never limit yourself when it comes to the writing process or dealing with your writing career.

ABOUT THE BOOKS:

What book still has you reeling from its plot twist? (*no spoilers please*)

Well I just finished reading Sarah J Maas's Throne of Glass all I can say is she has been added to my auto-buy list and I will buy the whole series I am in love with this series. I've been bitten by the book love bug...lol 😍

What books are you most anticipating for this year?

The rest of the Throne of Glass series  & A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J Maas,  The White Rose by Amy Ewing,  Shadow & Bone of the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo.

In your opinion, which YA book/series has the most unique premise?

Maureen McGowan Twisted Tales: Cinderella Ninja Warrior and Sleeping Beauty Vampire Slayer I thought was fascinating I also loved that in these two books the reader chooses how the story ends never seen that done before in a book series it made the book fun and interesting. Cinderella being a ninja and Sleepy Beauty being a slayer that idea has my kind of fun written all over it I love good twists on classic fairy tales.😊

What is your all-time favorite quote from YA lit?

{"weak" I gave him a sideways glare.  "You're crazy. Any compulsion to help people-voluntary or not-is a strength. Its noble"  

"You don't under-"

"There's nothing to understand, Griffin. You help people. That's the bottom line. There are lot of people who don't help anyone but themselves. And a lot more who wish they could do something-anything-to help someone in need, but can't or won't. The fact that you have to help people doesn't diminish the fact that you do help them."} - Oh. My. Gods  by Tera Lynn Childs

I love this particular scene/quote/passage because I feel it is one of the most profound truths in fiction that I have come across and I have read a lot of fiction books.

What book do you most hope will have a movie adaption?

Sarah J Maas's Throne of Glass series, Gallagher Girls series By Ally Carter, Oh. My. Gods series by Tera Lynn Childs, but I actually wish TLC's book series Oh.My.Gods was a TV Show.

I am tagging Ann Dayleview & Janine. I am also tagging all writers.

TTYF,

XoXo

💜R