Stark Reflections On Writing And Publishing

Mark interviews author E.L. Williams about her writing life, about her books, about rebranding one of the books in her series, and more. Prior to the main content, Mark shares comments from recent episodes a brief personal update, welcomes new patron T. Thorn Coyle, and shares a word about this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by the Patrons of the Stark Reflections Podcast.   In their conversation, Mark and Emma talk about: How it took Emma about ten years to write her first book Getting slightly "bullied" into going to a writer conference from a fellow author Publishing her first book during Halloween season in 2020 How the global pandemic changed enough things with her day job that allowed her the opportunity to get the book finished and published The "Murphy's Law" events that piled up with the launch of book two, which led to a signifcant health issue that had to be dealt with The decision to change the title and cover for book two after realizing it wasn't hitting the market properly Being