It’s official: Stitch has launched!  Readers can now buy it at the following locations: Amazon – Print & Kindle editions Smashwords –...

Update: This post was written back in 2012, and thankfully things have gotten A LOT easier since then!! (You NO LONGER need a software...

The advanced print proofs of my book are here.  !!! (Still working on those formatting posts, but I had to get this up there in the...

Update: This post was written back in 2012, and thankfully things have gotten A LOT easier since then!! (You NO LONGER need a software...

I’m SO excited to share the final cover art for Stitch!  Drumroll please… Ta-da! A big shout out to Damon over at http://damonza.com/ for...

The past few days while planning my marketing campaign, I keep running up against the same question (or rather, ramming into it headlong...

Yesterday, I almost drowned. Okay, not literally, but I felt like I was drowning.  You see, I had a couple free hours, so I decided...

(This blog post was meant to be in honor of the Fourth of July last Wednesday, but as I spent Independence Day and the subsequent rest of...

Note: This post was originally written in 2012 but I updated it in 2021 with some additional tips! I can tell you with confidence that...

If you work outside the book industry, you may not know that there is a revolution underfoot.  Amazon is shaking up the publishing world,...

Last week in Part 1 of this post I wrote about how I managed the undertaking of writing a novel.  This week I’m going tackle the harder...

Since I’ve started telling people that I wrote a novel, the questions I get asked most often (besides, “What’s it about?”) are “Why?” and...

Dear Reader, Thanks so much for visiting my website! As you may have surmised, my name is Samantha and I am the author of the upcoming YA...