Lissa

New Year, New Ambition

I didn’t make a single blog post in 2015. That’s because due to personal reasons I decided to take the entire year off from writing. It was awesome. Instead of feeling guilty for not writing, I simply said, “I’m not writing this year.” It was liberating. I spent lots of time on my otherContinue reading “New Year, New Ambition”

NaNoWriMo Prep in October – The Writing Playlist

Every year I prepare a writing playlist specifically for NaNoWriMo. Sometimes I need absolute silence to write, other times I can do with some tunes to get me in the right frame of mind. I find that film soundtracks work best of all. This year I discovered Spotify. It’s a free web player with aContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Prep in October – The Writing Playlist”

NaNoWriMo Prep in October – Planning

I’ve been super busy this year producing work under a couple of different pen names, but I always find November’s NaNoWriMo to be a good writing exercise and time to produce something under my real name. I’ve done NaNoWriMo every year since 2010. Two of the books I completed and self-published under NaNoWriMo were highlyContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Prep in October – Planning”

Diversity in Books: Why It’s Important and Why I Write It

#weneeddiversebooks I’ve published two full-length novels and both of them contain people of colour as either the main character or the love interest(s). In The Edge of Darkness, my protagonist Max(ine) is Filipino. I consciously made the decision to write her as non-white building on my father’s experience of being the son of immigrants to Australia,Continue reading “Diversity in Books: Why It’s Important and Why I Write It”

Paranormal Short Story Collections Free For 3 Days

A few weeks ago I began an experiment that is still ongoing. I made my two Kindle Select books, paranormal short story collections The Archive of Lost Dreams and Storm Front, free on Amazon for two days. But I didn’t tell anyone about it, because I wanted to see how the algorithm works without publicityContinue reading “Paranormal Short Story Collections Free For 3 Days”