How to Handle Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
How many types of rejection do you experience as an author? There are bad reviews, rejection letters, harsh critiques, or even the dreaded silence of nope. Dealing with these things is hard enough, but when you also have rejection sensitive dysphoria, something...
The real reason you need an author technologist
Princeton defines technologist as a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. In this way, an author technologist, which is how I describe myself, is someone who uses technology to solve practical problems faced by authors today. But I’m...
Dealing with Severe Burnout Part 1
In the first of this two part series, I talk about burnout as it is commonly discussed and why for neurodivergent authors our burnout can be something more. We often don’t realize we’re in burnout or understand what burnout is or how it works. I push back...
Epona Muse Publishing News for February 2024
Welcome to the EMP News Show for 02/2024. This month we’re talking about what anthologies are still open as well as the state of our submissions inbox. I’m also explaining a bit about our new fiction anthology. Want to see our submission guidelines or sign...
Finding synergy between being a technologist and a word weaver
In technology, there’s a dichotomy between those who are “computer people” and those who don’t consider themselves technologically inclined. Among the authors I speak with, this usually leads to their brushing away opportunities or systems for...
World Building Beyond The Book
When writing fiction one of the things you have to think about is your setting. For fantasy and science fiction, especially, the setting can be a major component of the story. But do you world build just enough for the story you’re writing or do you build a...
Three Things to Know Before Submitting a Story
Now that I’m looking at short fiction markets again, I’m starting to look at a lot of publishing house websites. There’s a lot of good information out there about things to check for before submitting your work such as the rights requested, the...
Why I am submitting stories again
I’ve been completely self-published, all indie all the time, since probably about 2006-2007. I mean sure, I published through my own publication company (And we published as many as 75 authors over the company’s lifespan.), but I still consider that...