Now that we’re turning the novellas into novels, we’ll have to change some of the titles. Here’s why. The original titles of the five books included an ampersand. The first two are Water & Blood and Shadows & Lies. For marketing purposes, we’d want to make all of the titles consistent, so we’re going to […]
I finished the first draft of Lost & Found this week and the writing process for this novel allowed me to finally find the correct voice and tone for all of the Gabby Wells novels. It was weird to me that it took two novels (that have since been trashed) and three novellas to find […]
Whether you are independently published or traditionally published, the majority of the ownership for your success falls on your shoulders. It is up to the author to write good stuff, build a fan base, establish beta readers and street teams and marketing plans. It’s why real writers treat writing as a business. It’s where the […]
The completion of the Gabby Wells storyline will take me some time. A couple of years. Not including the time it took to convert screenplays into novels that have since been tossed, just getting the novellas written, edited and published will probably take a year in total. We’ll release the novellas, one at at time, […]
Been very efficient this past week, typing out over 12,000 words. I’m nearing the end of the first draft of Lost & Found and I must say I’ve really enjoyed putting Gabby through hell. Writers have an odd relationship with the characters they love. They create them, cherish them, give them hopes, dreams, goals, loves […]
Writing is a lot like golf. It only takes one good swing to keep you hacking away for another 18 holes. While working on the first draft of Lost & Found I inadvertently setup a really awesome situation. The options were limitless. With that came pressure not to screw it up. So, I tentatively started […]
Plotting out Lost & Found has really come in handy. In a week I’ve written nearly 8,000 words. The story is humming along. I’m about half-way through, so it should end up in the 30,000 – 40,000 range, like the rest. I have been amazed how changes in the market, or new information I have […]
I’ve been chugging along slowly, but surely. Mostly slowly. I was able to draft almost 7500 words on the Lost & Found novella before I slowed things down. I realized that I knew the end of the story, but some of the middle parts were fuzzy. And, since I was diving head first into writing […]
Something important occurred to me this weekend. Something that placed a crap ton of pressure on me. As I fleshed out the plot for the second novella, Lost & Found, I realized it is the single most important book in the entire series. Why? Because, we intend to give the first novella The Homecoming Incident […]
I finally finished the first draft of Skyway, one of the novellas of our five novella series. It’s placement in the series has shifted, as I mentioned before, moving from novella #2, to novella #4. The current word count is just over 40,000 and will probably need another 2,000-3,000 when all is said and done. […]
I finished up the first draft of the novella Skyway this weekend. It ran long, as I expected, and will probably be even longer when I get it through the Beta Readers. But it’s a fun ride that starts out with a kick and throws in cool plot twists at the end of nearly every […]
Author Pete Bauer talks about a real world analysis of book covers and their importance to the success of your novel.
On this podcast author Pete Bauer and Sonlight Press marketing head Dorothea Bauer continue to talk about their latest findings as they hone their release strategy. Running Time: 42:36 Congratulations Lynette Noni Strategy History Recap More Novellas, If Necessary Has Fiction Lost Its Faith Cultural Christianity vs. Religious Belief Les Miserables Crosby, Bergman, Priests and […]
Sonlight Press is happy to announce a new upcoming young adult novel series, Gabby Wells Thrillers. Our first novel, Kneel & Prey, will be released soon. Gabby, a freshman in high school in the small town of Safety Harbor, was born with certain talents which, through experience and circumstance, have turned her into an effective investigator. Whenever […]
I once read that successful people surround themselves with people who are strong in areas they are not. I continue to do this in the creation of the Gabby Wells novels. As I’ve mentioned on this blog, my history is writing screenplays, but am migrating my way into novel writing. This process hasn’t been easy […]
We’d like to to welcome you to Sonlight Press. Our goal is to create compelling stories that focus on characters of faith facing extraordinary circumstances that not only put their lives in jeopardy, but also their beliefs. We call these the “Paul to St. Paul” conversion stories. Like the Apostle Paul, his journey didn’t end […]
Does where you write effect how you write? When I was starting out writing screenplays, I read an interview with Patrick Sheane Duncan, screenwriter of the film Courage Under Fire, who said that he taught himself to write anywhere with a pad of paper and a pencil so that he could write whenever he was […]
A Pius Man: A Holy Thriller, by Declan Finn, is equal parts intriguing and frustrating. As a self-published novel, it is one or two professional edits away from being a top-notch thriller. A Pius Man is the first in a trilogy of books and deals with the threats against a newly elected Jesuit Pope and […]