D.W. SMITH

Hey #QueryIsland citizens! I hope the Query Trenches are going well for you! I stepped off the island to fully go into self publishing and lemme tell you, while I know this is a monumental undertaking I now have a road map to get it done. Speaking of maps, I found a map artists whose work and process I am in love with! Keep me in your prayers and thoughts. I know in the larger scheme of things I am just another writer wanting to get their words out there. I am no one import

Hey #QueryIsland citizens! I have been knee deep in map artists and trying to select one to bring my world to life in a detailed map. I have a brilliant color one, but it just isnt right to put in my book. Tell me have any of you fantasy writers out there did up a map for your world? I did my first one myself, but I am no artists. Basically I used it to keep track of where things were in the world. Its about as rough as a rough sketch can be. Anyway, I have narrowed over 1

Hey #QueryIsland citizens! I just had my first meeting with someone to help me with self-publishing. My goodness the stuff she taught me just from the meeting! After thinking hard on it, I am going to move forward. I am so tempted to send just one more query...one more pitch events. If there is anything the industry has taught me, it's that the structure of this book is challenging for a pro to champion. Its ok. I will champion it myself. Who better, right? How many of y

One of my friends that wants to invest in my self publishing journey is a very eccentric older gentleman. He wants me to present him...

So #QueryIsland citizens, I have fired off my last query I ever intend to send out on this project. Yeah, I know, not expecting...

#QueryIsland citizens this is your mayor here talking about my self publishing trials and tribulations. Let's be real, self publishing...

Hey #QueryIsland citizens! Sorry it took me a couple days to get back to posting! Anyway, just so you know, I have started to reformat...

Yep its raining, pouring, and my literary life is snoring. Hey #QueryIsland citizens! As the mayor of this lost accursed resort, I look...

So #QueryIsland citizens, it looks like your mayor is in full steam now and I am learning a boatload about the nuances of self...

Hey #QueryIsland citizens! Gathering a lot of info on self publishing as we plow into the middle of the year. Sheesh, wasn't it just...

Hey citizens of #QueryIsland ! Let me ask you a question! How do you measure yourself or your success as applied to your writing...

Hey citizens of #QueryIsland . Tell me, do any of you ever work so hard on a manuscript that you fall in love with it to the point of...

As the mayor of #QueryIsland I get to sit on high in my own personal query trench, but I do get out to the main trenches and try to...

Another Wednesday, another 1000 words. So between a poem and a chapter on a new project, I am getting 1000 words written today. I am...

So Mother's Day came and went, and I didn't get to spend any with mine. My relationship with my mother isn't the best. Issues on both...

So as I sit here in my #QueryIsland mayor's office. I am driving many thoughts from my mind. The grind of restarting my process for my...

When it comes to your journey in the traditional process, do you sometimes feel demotivated or like you're a loser as a writer? The only...

So citizens of #QueryIsland, I have decided I am definitely going to seek to self publish my book, if the traditional route doesn't pan...

Oh the woes of being in the trenches on #QueryIsland! I will have you know that I fight against them everyday. Sitting here at work,...

As a member of the #WritingCommunity, I sometimes have to reconcile the possibility of never being traditionally published. It's a fact,...