My podcast

 

Last year I started a writing podcast. Since then, I have uploaded nine episodes and had 31 total plays. My podcast is called Phoebe M.C., and I have so many plans for it for 2023. 

How I did with my 2022 goals

 

This year my writing goals were to

• Write 100k words

• Finish editing endometriosis book
• Publish endometriosis book traditionally 

I managed to finish editing my endometriosis book while I didn’t publish it. Traditionally, I did self publish it this year I didn’t write 100,000 words that was a bit much with the baby, but I did manage to write close to 80,000 words.

How did you do with your writing goals this year?

The Steel Rose

 

Aspen is a five-foot-six rouge with a dodgy past; her best friend is a troll named Hannah, who she met the night she was an outcast from her pack.

What will happen to the pair of friends as they journey through life together?

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Chapter one Teaser

The sky darkened as Hannah ran alongside me; who would have thought that things would have turned out like this? I turn right around the corner and let out a wolfie grin as the wind changes direction and flows through my coat. 

I love this. I think to myself as I continue running, looking back at Hannah occasionally to ensure she is keeping up. 

Hannah is not your average person; she's not a person at all. Her long golden red hair flows down her back, framing her seven-foot stature. Her bright green eyes show she is from the forest we live in, and her horns fit perfectly on top of her head. 

"Hurry up, slow coach", Hannah giggles, somehow getting in front of me.  I bark in return and hurriedly catch up with her.

I observe as the small wood cabin we call home quickly approaches.  The dark, dusty wood cracked ever so slightly from the recurrent earthquakes; the once glass window shattered all over the ground from rowdy teens who thought it was funny to destroy one of the last intact cabins here in the middle of the forest. 

The sky darkened as Hannah held her hand on the rough door handle, trying to avoid a splinter from the nearby wood and pushed her way inside. I turn back to look out over the forest. The birds chee furiously in the distance as the wind picks up, sending beautiful music into the air; I push my way past Hannah and into our cabin, shifting back into my human form. Every bone in my body cracks into place. I slowly grow in height, reaching my five foot six height; my long blonde hair flows down past my shoulders, my yellow eyes switch back to my doe brown; I quickly stretch out my back and sigh in relief at the freeing feeling. I love being in my wolf form, but having lived as a rouge for five years, I don't get to spend much time in human form anymore. 

"Better?" Hannah questions, making me nod happily.

"Much better, now let's eat. I'm starving", I laugh before heading into our kitchen; our cabin might be small, but it's perfectly built for the two of us to live in.

I still remember the day I met Hannah; it was the day I became a rouge outcast from my pack, and with nowhere to go, I ran into a village where I found Hannah, who was imprisoned in a cage but the hunters; It was the first time I had ever come across anything like her, but I saved her anyway, and we have been inseparable Ever since. 

I stare at my plate full of meat and smile at Hannah.

"Thank you", I smile graciously; if it weren't for Hannah, I would have starved to death by now Because I can't cook. 

"You're welcome, your majesty", she mocking bows making me growl lowly.

"No", I state, trying to calm my wolf down

"Sorry, I forgot," she states, making me nod, knowing that she is telling the truth. She would never do anything to annoy me on purpose, and I know it. 

"What are your plans for the rest of the night?" I question, curious as to her answer. 

"Might go and find my prince in shiny armour", she laughs before gulping back her coffee 

"I'm kidding; I will probably just go to sleep with you tonight because I'm beat after our run", she states.

"Strange, you normally go out and don't come back until the early hours of the morning", I state back, making her nod.

"Not tonight", she smiles before eating her bacon and eggs. 

I finish off my plate of meat before taking my finished dish up to the sink and rinsing it off to make it easier to clean after my coffee in the morning.

"I might go to bed early", I smile before kissing Hannahs's cheek good night and heading into my dimly lit room.

My dresser is pressed up against my left wall, my book collection placed on top of the draws, as well as a few photographs I have picked up over the years. The only family photo I have is framed and hung above my bed, which is opposite my dresser on the right wall, and my sheep skin rug is placed nicely next to my bed so that I don't get cold feet in the morning. One of my biggest pet peeves is having cold feet.

I jump into my bed and close my eyes, praying for a peaceful sleep.

5 things i would do if i suddenly had millions of dollars

 Five things i would do if i suddenly had millions of dollars.

1.) hire a professional editor: while I’m okay with doing my own editing with the help of Grammarly, I know a professional editor would do me good; I just don’t have the money for that at the moment 

2.) get book covers made up: while I think I’m a good cover artist I could definitely use someone else to create my book covers

3.) buy a Maine coon: I have always wanted a Maine coon 

4.) buy a car: I desperately need a car now that I have my license not only to continue learning to drive but to get from point A to point B

5.) buy a house: I want to own my own house so that I can give my daughter and myself the stable lifestyle that we need. 

how to use social media to help promote your books

 

Promoting books can be challenging, but we live in a world where social media can be really a valuable tool to promote your books. 

Using social media for your writing can be difficult but not impossible. I have all my writing social media separate from my main social media. I run a blog, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook page and podcast all to do about writing. 

It can be hard to juggle it all but find what social media will work best for you and go with it, I don’t use tiktok for my writing but I could if I really wanted too. 

The key is be consistent and don’t always promote your work do it sparking and upload content about writing in general and then share your work every now and then. This is the process I have found to work for me the most. 

I post every second day on my Instagram and Facebook page, once a week on my podcast, twice a day on my Twitter as I can. This might be too much for you but what ever schedule you decide make sure you stick to it. 

Do your research on keywords and use them effortlessly so that you can get the most views possible on your work. Don’t use hashtags with a lot of posts but don’t use ones with only a couple because you won’t get seen that way look for the middle ground. 

My last tip is to have fun with it. 

What are your tips for social media promoting and writing? Let me know in the comments. 

My favourite author quotes

 

Author quotes are something that amaze me, this is my updated favourite author quote list

• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. - Ernest Hemingway
• A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Quiet people have the loudest minds. -Stephen King
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
  
•  writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. -Thomas Mann
• The most effective way to do it, is to do it. -Amelia Earhart 
  

Writing update July 2022

 

Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve done a writing update, so I thought I would jump on and write away update on how my writing is going because a lot has happened since my last one.

Where to start is going to be the tricky bit. I think I’m going to start with project hybrid. I have almost finished editing the book. There are only five more days of editing, and then the read-through I have sent it away to 2 different agents, which marks 4 agents in total the book has been sent to The first two declined the book because it wasn’t what they were looking for at the moment but I’m waiting to hear back from the two newest agents.

project endometriosis is being rewritten because a lot has changed with research and also my personal life so I’ve decided to completely re-write the book with the original draft being the basis of the structure  

other than that I’m only working on one other book and that is project gang and I’m really excited ants definitely a different one from my normal writing style but I’m really enjoying writing it I’m doing it for nanowrimo July 2022 and I’m already 3000 words into the first manuscript.

How have you guys booked been going let me know in the comments I am excited for you guys to check in and let me know.