Cris Game

Wow! It has been one week since we demoed at E3 in Los Angeles, and we have finally gathered all the links and media attention on XING that you guys might want to check out from the Expo; as well as put together our own story about the whole experience. Fortunately, Koriel lives about 40 minutes from the LA Convention Center, so we made our base camp there for the week.  The week before we had spent refining the demo for E3, and later making sure it would run perfectly on the HD Prototype Rift. We dove into optimization when John and James arrived in LA over the weekend, and by Sunday night we had a demo that ran at 60 FPS, but still didn't lose took much of the visual goodness. (We also went out and upgraded the video card in the tower, just to be safe) The response we got was overwhelmingly positive! But don't take our word for it, listen to what just two of the attendees had to say about their   XING: The Land Beyond E3 experience   (video) Exc...

So the other day I crossed the 25,000 mark in ebook sales. It's not anything that crept up on me unannounced or unexpected; it was a milestone that I'd been looking forward to for a while.  (I had actually hoped that I might cross it within the first year of publishing my fiction, but I'll take it at 13-and-a-half months.) In fact, I've had my eye on that figure since at least October of last year, when I crossed the 10K ebook mark (which you can read about here if you're so inclined). Looking back over the past year, there's no doubt that GOD has blessed me tremendously in terms of my writing. First of all, readers have just been absolutely amazing; there's no way I could put into words how much support and encouragement they've given me. I was also fortunate enough to connect very early on with other professionals who helped improve what I had to offer, like my editor ( Faith Williams ) and my cover artist ( Isikol ). Of course, it's often hard to...

Today I'm very excited to be interviewing Faith Williams of The Atwater Group.  Faith is an accomplished proofreader and copyeditor who has worked on several bestsellers. Needless to say, she stays fairly busy, so scoring this interview was something of a coup. Please tell us a little about yourself.   I grew up in a small town (population less than 5,000 when I was a kid).  My town was so small we didn’t have our own high school, so I went to a private Catholic high school (even though I’m not Catholic) about thirty minutes away from my house. I have two older brothers, but we also took in foster kids.  Some stayed a few days; others stayed for years. I met my future husband when I was working in a bookstore and he came in to order a copy of Mr. Boston’s Bartending Guide .  (My co-worker insisted on being the one who called him when it came in. I was all like, “Whatever.”) How would you characterize the type of work you do - editing, proofreading, copyediting...

Finishing the third book in my Warden series felt great for a number of reasons - not the least of which is that I can now release the first  Warden Series Boxed Set . As with the boxed set of my  Kid Sensation Series , it still feels weird to me that I've written enough books to be able to bundle them together like this. I mean seriously, just a little over a year ago - before I started publishing my two series - who would have thunk it? Moreover, last year at this time, it felt odd to me to look at my Amazon Author Page and see two books listed. Seeing nine of them now (including the two boxed sets) is something that I still have a tough time wrapping my mind around. Of course, it goes without saying that I'm loving every minute of being an author.  Even more, I feel blessed that readers seem to be finding and enjoying my work. Hopefully that's something that will continue for a long time to come. For now, however, I've got to get back to grinding on the next book...