If you didn’t read it previously, you might want to read Part One of the series about my path to going indie HERE. So, we made the decision. I’m not going to discuss all the steps to self-publishing or my own process. That’s a totally different post and other people have already done it far better than I could. Although, maybe one day I’ll do a post on everything that can go wrong. Yeah. It went like that. I’m going {Read More}
Pub Paths: The Bria History
July 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
There’s this river running between Indie and Trad publishing. In some places it’s a peaceful trickle you can hop from one side to the other. In some places it has raging rapids and dead-drop waterfalls. Each author decides where they live and judge everyone else from what they see outside their own window. It’s the topic I get questioned on the most: Are you happy you went indie? Are you happy you have an agent? Are you happy you queried {Read More}
COVER REVEAL! Body of Evidence by Rachel Grant
July 29, 2013 by 2 Comments
I love Rachel’s writing (don’t tell her that though. We’re kind of in the middle of a Twitter Feud) and so when she said she was doing a cover reveal today I begged to play along. This book as an Auto-Buy for me as soon as I read the first line of the description. What’s more awesome than a heroic heroine risking her life to give closure to the families of those who protect our nation? Yeah. Exactly. Sooooooo…. Here it is: {Read More}
Writing Regionally
July 10, 2013 by 3 Comments
It often feels like our country is getting smaller. But, we aren’t at a point yet where we’re a homogeneous society. And, honestly, I don’t think we’ll ever get there. After taking a year off to drive around the country a while back, I can tell you that diversity in language is alive and well in the USA. But what does that mean for writers? WRECKLESS is a regional book although I’ve refrained from saying exactly where it’s set. I’ve seen {Read More}
This Whole Plagiarism Thing
June 28, 2013 by 2 Comments
First off, I want to add my voice to those of other readers who are frustrated and angered by this newest plagiarism issue (if you somehow missed it yesterday, Dear Author broke the story HERE.) In the past I would have just been upset and felt horrible for the authors who were the victims of theft (having something stolen from you always feels more than intrusive) as well as the readers who paid good money for a new story. Not {Read More}
When Pen Names Collide
June 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I think we’re all on the same page at this point that Bria and Caitie are both me. No more weird surprises for you guys. But, now I’ve noticed something odd… something I noticed before but has become more obvious. Me and the whole New Adult thing. Previously several people had tagged my Caitie books as New Adult. I guess in some ways my characters do fall into that potential age bracket, but I’d always just thought of them as {Read More}
A Love Letter To My Agency
June 21, 2013 by 6 Comments
Being basically anonymous while I was putting out my Rom Com Novellas as Caitie Quinn was hard… sometimes heartbreakingly so. No matter how much help I had along the way, not “being me” often made me feel alone on the journey — and lowered my expectations of how the release of Wreckless would go. I expected a little bit of pimping and a few sales and hoped that slowly it would build up enough steam that it would find readers. {Read More}
Secret Identity – Or, Other Names To Write Stuff Under
June 3, 2013 by 13 Comments
Once upon a time there was a YA Writer named Bria Quinlan who decided it would be fun to write some funny, light-hearted rom coms as a break from her YA… Not that she didn’t love her YAs, but sometimes a girl wants to write something a little different. And so she did. And so she published one under the name Caitie Quinn. And it did fairly well… people seemed to like it. The more people who liked it, the {Read More}
So, this happened….
May 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been asked several times how I got on there. I have no idea. I’ve never submitted for a review or bought an ad so the idea that RT would even know my little stories exist is AMAZING. Super amazing.