Six years ago, January 1, 2012, I self-published my first book Wrecked. Now I have over 40 novels under my belt, some published independently and some by Montlake Romance. My books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Turkish, Hebrew, and Portuguese. I have readers on every continent and in many, many countries. […]
Category Archives: Odds and Ends
Sometimes Rules Should Be Broken
HOT TIP FOR WRITERS, EDITORS, AND GRAMMATICALLY PICKY READERS I put up a post on my FB wall yesterday asking for people to choose between 2 options for a sentence being used in my manuscript (a fantasy novel narrated by a 17 year old girl), trying to find the one that was more grammatically correct. […]
Thank You
Five years ago today, I published my first book. Today I have 40 books written, I’ve sold over a million copies of them, and I have the most amazing reader-fans an author could ask for. To say I am blessed feels like an understatement! I just wanted to pause here on the 1st day of […]
War of the Fae Series ending…coming soon! And a special thank you to those who’ve been waiting…
My die-hard War of the Fae fans are anxiously awaiting books 9 and 10, aka, the end of the series, and I have October 31st as the day for #9 to come out and November 30th for book 10. I’ve gotten umpteen messages from readers wanting to know when, when, when they can buy the […]
And updated publishing schedule and thoughts on those kinds of things…
For the first three years of my publishing life, I was absolutely militant about my deadlines and writing schedule. I published on the last day of the month, every month, for years. This kind of pace and output was unheard of at the time, although I see some authors have taken on the challenge of […]
Married to a Writer, Part 2
Read on for more of Noelle’s interview with my husband, Craig. And of course he’d wear that shirt! 🙂 In 2012, her first year of self-publishing, Elle wrote Wrecked (YA action adventure), the War of the Fae (contemporary urban fantasy) series and the Apocalypsis (dystopian) series. When and why did she decide to write romance? […]
Simon and Garfunkel
For those of you who read my last post about the tragedy that struck my ranch on May 18th, I’m writing this update. That last post was so dark and sad, and I didn’t want you to think I was still in that place three days later. My days are still filled with tears, but […]
Scrivener : A helpful tool for authors
I’m a huge fan of working smarter, not harder. Maybe it’s because I’m lazy, I don’t know, but regardless, I’m here today to share my favorite writing tool: Scrivener. And awesome news … I’ve made you a template you can use to write your novel and format it as an ebook, paperback, manuscript for editing, […]
Giving Thanks
Today is Thanksgiving, and even though I’m not living in the United States anymore, I still celebrate with a turkey and all the trimmings. Yay, leftovers! It’s so easy in a busy life to forget to stop or at least slow down and think about all the things you’re grateful for. Time goes by so […]
50% off ALL ebooks at KOBO!
Hello, Readers! Just to let you know … there’s a special promotion going on over at Kobo, where you can get 50% off ALL ebooks, and you can use the promo code an UNLIMITED number of times !! All of MY ebooks are there for purchase, so if you’ve been waiting to get a deal […]
Ask My Anything! Submit your questions before Friday afternoon!
I’m going to be featured on Inkitt.com’s “Ask Me Anything” event this Friday, the 23rd of October at 1:00pm PST. Submit your questions anytime before that, and I’ll do my best to answer them. I can’t wait to share! (And knowing me, there will be some oversharing to look forward to.)
Onward and Upward!
If you caught my last post, you read about my husband’s terrible horseback riding accident that put him in the hospital for going on two weeks now. I wanted to post an update on his condition for all of you who reached out to me with your wonderful words and acts of kindness. I heard […]
