Posts by Julia Schmeelk

Jommy’s Flights were coming together slowly. Over this past week, I missed a lot of sleep, worked through some computer issues, rewrote a scene, and focused on formatting. I took some time and went to a fair, something I always enjoy; petting animals and looking over interesting things. By the time I came back and…

I have been working somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 hours each day on one manuscript or another, except when something comes up. I took some time to play on lake Michigan, I take a break and cook a meal for my husband. I take a break and cook for my dad. Today I went…

One of the things I love about Brom and Mox’s story is seeing growth. Did you notice how much Starseth and Redseth have grown? Matti and Jenny and Kev and Fin? But most starting is Zack, moving from youth to mature. New characters are introduced, like Phriss the older dragon, and Fost, Glinarca’s mate. Did…

I was writing, editing, working on Jommy’s Flights and I use the auto save feature because the last time my computer went wonky I lost 800 pages of work. Needless to say I like avoiding that. Instead, I just realized the auto save has 3 distinct versions done on different days with different corrections. I…

There are a lot of choices we make every day, but the do or write is probably my favorite. Do I clean or write? Should I garden or write? Invited out to shop or write? Well my brother invited me to go out on his boat today and for the first time in four weeks,…

You can find The Hunter on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CCSKZ7FH?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_6&storeType=ebooks And you can check out the other books if you haven’t gone exploring among the humans and dragons of this exciting utopian world. As for me, aside from promotion, I have been working on Jommy’s Flights, the 8th book of the series that tells the tale of…

Book 7 -The Hunter: NewEarth 7 has been submitted and is under review! It should go live in the next three or five days. I’ll let people know when it does. ❤️ Book 8 Jommy’s Flights is with readers. It only needs a last round of editing and then formatting. Then it too will be…

So far everything are on schedule. The Hunter is looking pretty good. Editing is done and most of the formatting is done. Submission begins tomorrow, but it can be a week-long process. One of the details is what goes on the back of the book. Check below to see my favorite draft so far. It…

Every job has something that makes your head hurt, but for writers formatting is the worst. This is making sure every space is counted, and every line is in the right place. Each chapter has to be set up exactly the same. Page numbers, headings, footers, it all gets jumbled up in my head making…

From time to time I help my dad on the farm. He’s almost 85 and while still active and doing for himself, there are some things he needs a little help with. Yesterday we were relocating the ducks. They start out in an incubator, move to the 4 ft by 2 ft enclosure in the…