Susan L Markloff

I doodled a lot in school. If there were margins on a worksheet that was handed out, I was bound to have scribbled something into that space. I was in middle school when I sketched out a werewolf-esque creature with wings and a reptilian tail, and thus Kaldok was born. Though why he was part werewolf and part dragon was beyond me and my eighth-grade brain. The bratak'ra weren't very different. I distinctly remember being in chemistry class. Why I remember this so vividly, God

WELL LET'S JUST TACKLE SOMETIHNG I WAS LESS THEN STELLAR AT SIX MONTHS AGO, SHALL WE? A couple days ago, my dad asked, "Is the cover art what you envisioned when you started the whole process?" And I responded with, "I had zero idea of what I wanted for a cover when I started." That's 100%, honest to God, hand on the Bible, the truth. I had no clue what I wanted the cover of my book to look like. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. It's just the reality of things. I,

Things are quickly becoming reality. After months of planning and collaborating and designing, book 1 is coming together. Today I got the first physical proof in the mail and I'm so anxious about it, I feel like I could be sick. This is really happening. This is real life. HOLY CRAP. Holding a physical copy of book 1 is surreal to the millionth degree. I was transfixed by it, just soaking in the crazy mixed emotions of it all. The book in my hands, the weight of it in my gras

I sat down a week or so ago and drafted out a calendar of sorts for social media and blogging and all that fun stuff and now my head hurts. Coming up with content is HARD friends. On top of everything else that needs to be accomplished to publish a book, doing all this other stuff really is just like...oh goodness. Anyway, I've learned a LOT in the short time since I started this whole journey. And it made me realize that I basically will learn even more in the coming weeks a