Book Birthday

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Poetry is designed for politics. Have you read mine?

Drawtober day 10

Thursday Thoughts

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My youngest child is in the process of moving into their own house. I am so torn. They are 20 and ready to do this but I worry about it. Add in the fact that I have had a child to worry about since I was 14 and I find myself with no children to make decisions about…I am going through a lot of emotions that I don’t know what to do with.

Drawtober day 9

Wednesday whisper

Poetry

Decompose

By

Serena Mossgraves

Don’t know what is
Eating at me,
Clawing into my soul…
Opening up my
Memories at the end of the knife.
Pretending that I will be
Okay after all is
Said and done…
Eventually.

Tuesday Tunes

A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics –

Spooky, scary skeletons
Send shivers down your spine
Shrieking skulls will shock your soul
Seal your doom tonight
Spooky, scary skeletons
Speak with such a screech
You’ll shake and shudder in surprise
When you hear these zombies shriek
We’re sorry skeletons, you’re so misunderstood
You only want to socialize, but I don’t think we should
‘Cause spooky, scary skeletons
Shout startling, shrilly screams
They’ll sneak from their sarcophagus
And just won’t leave you be
Spirits supernatural are shy what’s all the fuss?
But bags of bones seem so unsafe, it’s semi-serious
Spooky, scary skeletons
Are silly all the same
They’ll smile and scrabble slowly by
And drive you so insane
Sticks and stones will break your bones
They seldom let you snooze
Spooky, scary skeletons
Will wake you with a boo!

My 2 cents –

So I love all things spooky. This month allows me to share the fun songs.

Drawtober day 8

Publishing Demystified

The purpose of this one is simple. Most likely everyone here knows I run Fae Corps Publishing and I have been doing this in the background for a while now. I plan on talking clearly about the tools I use for publishing, and the way that each one works. Demystifying what I do. Is that to say that I will be making my own self unnecessary? No, because my experience is valuable. I just feel like so much of the process is made out to be harder than it needs to be.

Let’s chat about the files.

All books have multiple files that go into the making and marketing of them.

I have talked about the covers.

I don’t know if I have discussed the main document, yet…but today I want to discuss the marketing images.

I use 3 types for each book.

I start with a cover reveal. This is actually 2 separate images. One of the cover with a release date and other information, and one where the cover is hidden. (I have not been doing this with my own personal books because of how I have been doing the presentation of them.)

The second one is usually an about the author. This is featuring a picture of the author and a short biography written in 3rd person.

The third one and the most flexible one is a teaser. This one will have a short text from the book. This is often a paragraph or two at the most (or a poem in a poetry volume).

There’s occasionally other stuff that can be done for the marketing images … but I am listing the three that I do for every one.  Then you can just share the images and the link to get the book seen.

I will leave on the bottom of the post the upcoming calendar. I feel like that will help. As You can see this changes slightly each week. Things get adjusted because Authors are not ready or I get a book that I had promised space.

October –

11th – Fighting Ignorance by Patricia Harris

18th – My Gothic Angel by Laj & Khoury Hawkins

25th – Anthology – Nightmare Whiskers

November-

8th – Thoughtfish by Ruan Bradford Wright (2nd Edition)

15th- Would You Like Fries with That By Mariah Lynde

26th – The Crypt Keeper’s Notebook by ZyhrenSong

December –

1st – unknown by Raz T Slasher (middle grade) (*though I don’t normally have an unknown in my list of release dates… from a couple of authors I will take the chance for “kids week” and save the spot. If I don’t get the book from them I will just have an empty spot for the day. But I think that they are worth it.)

2nd – Where’s my Sugar by Patricia Harris

3rd – Pip 4: Pip that is not Yours! By Patricia Harris

4th – Anthology Fae Recipes

5th – Unknown by CM Snow

6th – Spoiled Naughty Ponies by Capri Summers

7th – MG: The Grim Face of Reality by Sean Armstrong

8th – Hood of Sedna by Mina Skye

13th – Anthology Honesty in Verse

2025

Everything from here down is still in the process of being acquired for Publication with 2 exceptions (Fae Speaks & Rebirth )

January

1st- Best of Fae Speaks Anthology

17th – Darkness Within by Serena Mossgraves

24th- Publishing Demystified by Patricia Harris

February

7th – From the Ashes by Mariah Lynde

21st – Rebirth by Mariah Lynde

March

14th- Gowan by Ruan Bradford Wright

21st – Galrena’s Chosen by CM Snow (tentative )

Drawtober day 7

Monday Poetry

Poetry

My Wings

By

Patricia Harris

my wings were clipped
before I had grown
strong enough to fly…

so I crashed as they said I would
crawling upon the ground
trying to reach home once more …

I had to recreate my wings
from the bones of the soul
they burned within.