Shayna Grissom Writes

publishing

  • 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

  • I am the narwal; Goo goo g’joob (HIGMA)

    The stat nerds are gonna hate this… At some point, The Beatles got really weird. They went from “Can’t Buy Me Love” to “I am the Walrus”. There’s plenty of reasons for that. Fame, wealth, LSD… But there’s another reason, one that will meander into a point halfway though this post. I started writing fifteen… Read more

  • Feedback: When to take it, and when to leave it

    I’m supposed to be on a writing hiatus, and I am, just not from writing on the blog. Feedback is what separates a writer from an author. You Need Feedback. Period. That being said, not all feedback is helpful or useful to you. Half the time it’s not useful at all. Sometimes critiques are not… Read more

  • The Ivy Noose and that time I signed with a homophobe

    Yeah… It’s exactly how it sounds. Let’s make things clear. I’m a Bi, Pan, Queer, whatever. Maybe it’s because I’m an elder queer or maybe it’s because I’m innately stubborn and dislike labels of any kind, but I grew up in a slightly less accepting time. I didn’t know what being a “dyke” meant in… 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

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