Karen McCullough

One of my favorite bits of writing advice for others will post here on November 23:

http://michelestegman.com/thoughts

My advice for writers: Make it Fun

I’ve got several things going on right now:

1. I’m scanning my older Avalon Books in to get them ready to put up for sale in electronic format.

2. I’m working on a series of ebooks to show people how to do their own ebook covers.  The first, using free PC software Paint.NET is now available at Amazon.

3. And I’m working on the sequel to A GIFT FOR MURDER, tentatively titled, WIRED FOR MURDER.  You can track my progress with the widget to the right.  (Motivation for me!)

I’ve had a pretty big weekend – I got a novel that’s been hanging around my hard drive for quite a while formatted and uploaded to the main epublisher sites.  Magic, Murder and Microcircuits is now available at:

Amazon Kindle Edition
Nook Edition
Order from Smashwords

Blurb: A powerful wizard with a physics degree and a checkered past invents a  shield to ensure he’ll never again be tortured almost to death.

The wizarding powers-that-be fear the repercussions of such a device and send  his former girlfriend, an accomplished wizard herself, to retrieve the device  or destroy it.

When the shield is stolen by the magical mafia, Ilene McConnell and Michael  Morgan have to set aside their differences and work together to recover it.  Michael claims he needs the device as insurance against the kind of injury and  injustice he suffered once before. Ilene maintains its potential to upset the  delicate balance of power makes it too dangerous and that it needs to be  destroyed. But none of that will matter if they can’t retrieve it before a ruthless,  powerful wizard learns how to use it for his own ends.

More on Baby:

On the personal front, my grandson continues to gain weight, although that has fluctuated some since they’re trying to transition him from the feeding tube to breast and bottle.  But they’ve moved him to an open crib from the incubator and he’s breathing completely on his own.

My newest grandchild, William Michael Gerdon was born a few days ago.  He’s ten weeks premature since my daughter had a complicated pregnancy, and he’s tiny at 2 lbs. 10 oz., but so far he’s holding his own.  He’s breathing on his own with just a little oxygen support.

Lots of interesting things coming up in the next month:

I’ll be teaching an online class on Creating Your Own Author Website using WordPress in the month of October. Click here for more information and registration .

My October paranormal release has a new title: Magic, Murder and Microcircuits!  For blurb and excerpt, click here.

I’ve done a number of ebook covers for other authors, and I’m working on creating a set of instructional booklets on how to create your own ebook cover using free software, or other programs you might already have.  The first one is for Paint.NET, a free image-manipulation program for PC computers.  You can order it from Amazon.com.  More will be following soon and in additional formats.

Finally, I’m working on scanning in my backlist Avalon books to make them available in electronic editions.  The first one, The Night Prowlers, should be available soon!