When I was uploading my vampire manuscript, “Switching Stations, Switching Stories” to Create Space, I had no idea that a series of unforeseen events would occur. I was on my laptop, hands on the keyboard, waiting for Create Space to review my vampire manuscript. After several minutes up pops a notification of two problems. I…
Author: Christy Santo
Writing A New Vampire Manuscript and Doing Research
Last summer I wrote an outline for my second vampire manuscript and then ignored it until January when I started writing it again. I stopped six days later when I looked for then hired an editor for my first vampire manuscript. I did get back to the second manuscript until a majority of the editing…
Social Media and Me
On social media an endless list of companies, independent sellers, artists, writers and athletes all vie for an audience to plus, like, tweet, pin, Instagram, share a video, etc. hoping that a social media reader who follows them will spread the word that this social media site is cool. These social media companies also want…
Building My Blog Statictvblog.com: A Range of Emotions
These past 22 days I have been building a blog called statictvblog.com to promote my soon to be published vampire book, “Switching Stations, Switching Stories.” I began on February 24th and had the blog live by the end of February. This did not include setting up search engine optimization or web master tools, which I…
Legendary Author Battle Story Video No. 7
I am part of a group on Google+ called Legendary Author Battle. It is a fun group where two authors collaborate on a story together, read and record it, then put up a video on You tube. I collaborated with author and group owner/monitor Simon Cantan. I hope you enjoy the following story….
My Manuscript is Nearly An Adult: I am Holding Back The Tears
As I approach publication of “Switching Stations, Switching Stories”, I am aware the editing process is not quite over. Yes, I know I have gone through the manuscript dozens of times prior to paying a professional editor. In February we worked along side each other passing the manuscript back and forth via e-mail every two…
Don’t Knock the Rough Draft Process
I groaned whenever the English teacher told our class we had to do rough drafts before completing a writing assignment. I hated writing a rough draft which is the bare bones of a story. My English teachers told my class and I the rough draft would help us know if we had a complete story…
Going Through The Imagination Portal
Vampire Book Really?
While growing up in New Jersey and Indiana (where I now live), I read a huge list of books from the public libraries. If one could get access that book list, they would see that of all the genres, those about vampires would be a small number of what I have read. I always imagined…
