Shayna Grissom Writes

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  • To indie or not to indie

    Some of you might know me in writing servers, I’m apart of several. I’m an embarrassingly high level in a few and something that comes up often is whether or not to try querying or “just go indie”. Rather than blow up the chat and increase my participation level and get tagged by that awful… Read more

  • Inspiration

    It’s not where inspiration comes from, but rather when. I have four main folders on my desktop. “Working Drafts” and “Published” are fairly self-explanatory, the other two are easily understood if you’ve seen The Princess Bride. “The Dragon’s Hoard” is where my finished works go. Before my Self-Publishing era that file was beyond depressing to… Read more

  • A book a month

    I didn’t just crash into Indie-publishing with two books and a third coming out next week. This looks weird without context and I realize I haven’t given any context as to why I’ve pulled a book out of my ass every two weeks. I touched on it a little bit in previous posts, particularly The… Read more

  • Dance, Monkey

    Since the dawn of social media, writers were reassured by their agents that a platform wasn’t required.** Was it nice to have a built-in fanbase? Yeah! But it wasn’t a requirement because the publisher would tend to the marketing on behalf of the author. In the last few years it’s been a growing concern for… Read more

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