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10 out of 10!

While I was doing the YouTube research on my Making Money blog post yesterday, I came across something very fun. Out of curiosity, I typed “Alethea Kontis” into the YouTube search function to see if any of my videos or deleted scenes (or interviews at Dragon*Con, or fan videos of various panels) came up first. Surprisingly, what came up…

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MoA&A Interview #6: Robin Covington

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features fellow Waterworld Mermaid and Facebook Man-War Photo Bomber Robin Covington! I am so proud that her debut novel, A NIGHT OF SOUTHERN COMFORT, was just released by the Indulgence Imprint at Entangled Publishing. You should all click over and…

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Authors: Make Money on the Intarwebs!

Like any author worth her salt on the intarwebs nowadays, I try to make a little bit of money everywhere. Stress on the word LITTLE…but I keep telling myself that eventually, this will all pick up and will be a nice steady little Starbucks budget to support this crazy writing habit I have. Things I have monetized: 1.) Short…

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MoA&A Interview #5: K. Bird Lincoln

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features yet another fabulous Codexian, K. Bird (Kirsten) Lincoln, who has spent like a bazillion years in Japan and takes awesome pictures like the one here. BECAUSE SHE IS A GIRL AFTER MY OWN HEART. Welcome, Kirsten! **************** Author or…

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MoA&A Interview #4: Kevin Wasden

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features fabulous artist Kevin Wasden! Kevin illustrated my story “Counterclockwise” for the November issue of IGMS last year. He also collaborates on the incredibly awesome Hazzardous Universe books with equally incredibly awesome author Julie Wright. (Hey, I need to get…

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MoA&A Interview #3: Scott Roberts

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features fellow SF writer, Northern Virginian, Codexian, and Orson Scott Card Boot Camper (Class of 2003) Scott Roberts! (I swear, it’s like we’re twins or something. Or something. And seriously…he NEVER AGES. Look! I present 9-year-old photographic evidence below. Then…

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Mission: Accomplished (for now)

If you patronize a small business, know someone who owns one, or own one yourself, you were also in a tizzy a few days ago scrambling for votes on the missionsmallbusiness.com website. in a nutshell, Chase and Living Social are giving away $3 million in the form of 12 $250,000 grants for small businesses. I found the link through…

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MoA&A Interview #2: Beth Cato

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features SF writer and fellow Codexian Beth Cato! Beth was the first one to get back to me with her answer to the Questions of the Month, and so she garnered the coveted First (well, technically second) Interview of the…

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You Look Like You Need a Smile

You know what makes everyone smile? BLOOPER REELS. Please enjoy this quick, minute-long blooper reel, constructed from all the deleted scenes I read for the Enchanted blog tour this summer. Because if we can’t laugh at ourselves…what’s the point? To check out all the other Enchanted deleted scenes and goodies you might have missed on YouTube, click on over…

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MoA&A Interview #1: Tara

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! To kick things off in a contrary fashion (because all ways here belong to me), today’s interview is neither an author nor an artist (but she could be both one day, if she wanted to). As promised, here is the interview with…

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