Smile: It’s your author headshot!

One of the tasks that Immortal Works Press asks of its authors is to get a professional headshot. You don’t want an amateur looking picture gracing your novel even though it was taken by your uncle who’s “pretty good with a camera.” Lighting, composition, styling, are all important considerations as well as the resolution of […]

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A name changer

There was an interesting paragraph in the email that introduced me to my editor for Ghost Girl. “Throughout this process I’d like you both to be thinking about a different title for this book. We already have books with similar titles (Dead Girl and Grace’s Ghosts) and I’d like this one to stand out from […]

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Don’t be afraid to ask

With Ghost Girl set for publication in 2020, I want to make sure it does well. One of the things in the Immortal Works Author Marketing Guide (a primer given to their new authors to help your new novel hit the ground running) was this: Famous Person Cover Blurb: Do you know anybody famous? Now […]

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Ghost Girl to be published!

Great news! Ghost Girl is going to be published by Immortal Works Press. 14-year-old Abbey’s love/hate relationship with ghosts is tested when she’s stranded at a spooky summer camp. Her ability to see ghosts has lost her many friends—it scares people and really, who wants to hang out with the ghost girl?—but there’s something addictive […]

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