Silverville Saga #3 Cover Reveal, and our article on writing a stand-alone or multi-book series

At last! Finally!

We're sharing with friends and fans the final cover for our forthcoming Silverville Saga #3, THE MAGICKE OUTHOUSE.

Kym designed the cover in her continuing role of book cover designer for our publisher, Raspberry Creek Books. (Be sure to check out their new Website.)

The book is set to release the third week of November, and during the month we'll be stopping by blogger friends' digs to share news about this latest addition to the Silverville series:

• Watch for news of our visit to Ellie Garrett's site next week, Nov. 6, as she features us on her Speculative Fiction Writers Spotlight.
• We'll visit ever-generous blogger, writer, and friend Julie Leuk mid-month to share tidbits and backstory.
• And we'll make an appearance at Ninja Captain Alex Cavanaugh's blog on Nov. 22, just as the book releases.

Several of our advance readers have told us this is the best book yet -- Whew! We'd hate to think we'd already peaked. But more on their comments as the month progresses.

And stay tuned for a schedule of our reading tour (including a surprise appearance!)

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Kym-n-Mark are also excited to be guest contributors this month to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' new blog. We're in the final installment of a three-part article with tips for writers on the subject of...

"The Blank Spaces in our Stories"
– The messages writers send readers between the words 

RMFW's blog will post the third and final installment on Tuesday, Oct. 29, called

Part 3 – The Blank Spaces between Books: Why authors conclude a stand-alone novel or close one story's arc as part of a multi-book series

at https://www.rmfw.org/blog/

Why authors break for new chapters, new scenes

Kym-n-Mark are excited to be guest contributors this month to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' new blog. We're in the middle of a  three-part article with tips for writers on the subject of...

"The Blank Spaces in our Stories"
– The messages writers send readers between the words 

Here's the intro to the series:

As writers, we all spend lots of time thinking about narrative craft – plot, character, setting, dialog – but what about the blank spaces between all those words?

Readers don’t give much thought to those spaces – unless they’re missing. So it’s up to writers to fill the blanks with implied meaning. And it’s part of the unwritten “contract” we create every time we ask a reader to invest storytime with us.

Over the next three posts, we’ll remind fellow writers of the messages they intuitively (and, we hope, intentionally) include in the blank spaces of any good story. It starts at the sentence and paragraph levels, but it builds as we accumulate the sections and chapters of a good tale, and it even plays a role if we decide to expand our universe into multi-book series.

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RMFW's blog will post the second installment on Thursday, Oct. 24, called

Part 2 – Why we break to new scenes or new chapters: The blank spaces between narrative sections
Visit their fab site and our second installment at

at https://www.rmfw.org/blog/

The Blank Spaces in [y]our Stories

Kym-n-Mark are excited to be guest contributors this month to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' new blog. We'll be sharing a three-part article with tips for writers on the subject of...

"The Blank Spaces in our Stories"
– The messages writers send readers between the words 

Here's the intro to the series:

As writers, we all spend lots of time thinking about narrative craft – plot, character, setting, dialog – but what about the blank spaces between all those words?

Readers don’t give much thought to those spaces – unless they’re missing. So it’s up to writers to fill the blanks with implied meaning. And it’s part of the unwritten “contract” we create every time we ask a reader to invest storytime with us.

Over the next three posts, we’ll remind fellow writers of the messages they intuitively (and, we hope, intentionally) include in the blank spaces of any good story. It starts at the sentence and paragraph levels, but it builds as we accumulate the sections and chapters of a good tale, and it even plays a role if we decide to expand our universe into multi-book series.

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RMFW's blog will post the first installment on Tuesday, Oct. 15, called

“Half-Halts and Full-Stops”: Why we add the breaks between sentences and paragraphs


Visit their fab site and our first installment at

at https://www.rmfw.org/blog/

And all month, we'll be previewing info on the forthcoming release of Silverville Saga #3, The Magicke Outhouse, with the cover reveal later this month!