tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54583802024-03-08T14:17:57.072-05:00Good To Begin Well, Better To End Well<center><b>Good to Begin Well, Better to End Well</b></center>Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.comBlogger662125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-41018260007920719362023-10-30T12:25:00.001-04:002023-10-30T12:25:28.299-04:00Braving Fate: A Fate of the Gods Novella and a COST OF LIVING/Patreon update!Yes, yes I did write another Fate of the Gods novella, and it's releasing as a serial on Patreon beginning THIS WEEK!Would you like a cover?Have a cover!
BRAVING FATE takes place during the contemporary timeline of FORGED BY FATE--in fact, it's the events of that portion of the book from Thor's perspective! Thor is Oathbound to protect the House of Lions as well as to keep Adam Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-19815719811093996512023-03-09T09:36:00.001-05:002023-03-09T09:36:00.198-05:00Building Your Author Platform (A Twitter Thread)I have been living this authorlife for nearly 15 years, friends, so when I say this, I hope very much you will take it to heart, because it is a lesson many of us had to learn the hard way--and there is no reason you should have to!When you are building an author platform, keep in mind you want your audience to be READERS.It is great to connect with other writers! You need writer friends! But youAmalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-86136322033151767952023-02-16T09:00:00.001-05:002023-02-16T09:00:00.207-05:00Tips for Writing Dialogue (A Twitter Thread from 2022)It is BETTER to have TOO MANY dialogue tags telling readers who is talking than TOO FEW.Too many--a reader's eye can skip over them as they're reading and they'll fade into the background. TOO FEW and a reader is pulled out of the story with "Wait, what? Who said this??"ALSO be cautious about breaking up your dialogue of a single speaker into multiple paragraphs without dialogue tags to indicate Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-1605677125684894442023-02-03T09:54:00.002-05:002023-02-03T09:54:53.467-05:00The Gods Make Their Own Rules: A Pagan Twitter Thread from 2020I've been going through and curating my twitter archive over the last few months, wanting to reduce my public digital footprint, but this is a thread that I feel like could use a better platform. On Twitter, I've talked A LOT about my paganlife and my relationship to Thor. "Come for Thor, Stay for More!" has been a defining element of my brand for a while. Some of those threads really should haveAmalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-48288162634189623232022-12-19T11:20:00.000-05:002022-12-19T11:20:11.588-05:002022 Release Wrap-Up!I released a few titles in 2022!COST OF LIVING Exclusive to Patreon, available to read in full on the web for as little as a dollar a month, or in a handful of downloadable ebook volumes for as little as 5 dollars a month! (Watch Patreon for news of an extremely limited edition paperback/full ebook release in 2023.) This is a wild adventure, one part billionaire romance, one part medical drama, Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-58444358135864052162022-12-16T10:42:00.001-05:002022-12-17T22:25:47.691-05:00Revisiting Forged by Fate, and Show vs. TellI'm revising FORGED BY FATE right now, for... well... reasons, and this book--there is so much of this book that I still love desperately, but in coming back to it twenty years after I started writing it, I've noticed some things that my baby authorself was doing, thinking it was THE RIGHT WAY TO WRITE that, well. Were kind of the opposite of helpful in getting my points across.Let's talk about Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-37447338274924871882022-10-19T17:32:00.003-04:002022-10-19T17:32:28.088-04:00Winter Games is here!!I should have posted this on the blog last month, but I'm slow about updating--honestly, I count myself lucky that I managed to get it out in my newsletter in a timely manner! BUT!!!! WINTER GAMES IS FINALLY HERE!!!! You can get it in paperback or ebook from pretty much anywhere--or request your local library to order it in for you, even! Order now and get your copy in PLENTY of time before Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-88046358817326850132022-08-17T11:12:00.004-04:002022-08-24T09:45:09.570-04:00Winter Games is Coming!I am SO EXCITED about WINTER GAMES! It CANNOT be overstated at this point, and I'm saying that while in the midst of my least favorite part of the book production journey, too, so you KNOW this is something special! So to celebrate and get you all ready for WINTER GAMES, book one in the series, PLAYING TO WIN is currently FREE across all your fave e-tailers!Because the only downside of Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-4717729707675748892022-06-27T10:56:00.003-04:002022-06-27T10:56:44.645-04:00Summer 2022 Continues!I announced all this in my newsletter last week (and if you aren't subscribed already, I highly recommend that you do so!) but I'm thrilled to announce that both Blood of the Queen in hardcover and Of Gods and Jotuns in paperback have launched into the world! If you were waiting on either one, go forth and grab your copy!!I'm also BEYOND excited to tell you all about what's coming next in my Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-13615210216463734032022-05-09T21:09:00.000-04:002022-05-09T21:09:24.870-04:00Summer 2022, Go!I'm a little early, I know, but I wanted to give you all a little progress update!First: the BLOOD OF THE QUEEN hardcover print proof has arrived and it looks extremely pretty! I'll be doing one final read through and then I'll be hitting publish either this month or early in June! Hooray!!!Second: I'm also going to be releasing OF GODS AND JOTUNS very shortly (again either this month or Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-85875321761189643082022-03-01T11:39:00.001-05:002022-03-01T11:39:28.553-05:00What have I been doing?Sometimes, I get lost in the weeds, sure I have accomplished nothing with my time--this latest round was brought to me by looking at the vanity shelf in my living room with all my books lined up and the absurd feeling that I had nothing to show for myself for last year and nothing to show for myself this year.When that happened, I decided I need a better visual representation of my work--because Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-63918369263366829822021-12-15T11:53:00.006-05:002022-01-12T10:37:35.854-05:00Forged by Fate is FREE!It's that time again!FORGED BY FATE is now FREE in digital wide release--Nook, Kobo, Apple, Scribd, Kindle, go! I'm working on getting it price matched on the zon's international sites but for whatever reason, and despite the email telling me they've done it, the free pricing hasn't gone through yet, so--Fingers Crossed, I suppose?And don't forget that: 1) FORGED BY FATE technically ends at Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-75307902057894113732021-05-20T08:57:00.001-04:002021-05-20T08:57:10.693-04:00SON OF ZEUS Release Day!Happy Release Day to SON OF ZEUS, available now in wide release--digital and paperback--and an exclusive to Amazon hardcover edition! Your HELEN OF SPARTA fave Pirithous is back! But this time, he's adventuring in the world you know!Pirithous, son of Zeus, stumbles out of the Underworld into Upstate New York, a land nothing like the one he left behind so long ago. The price of his freedom: reviveAmalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-54902390203060038742021-05-08T13:51:00.001-04:002021-05-08T13:51:52.803-04:00Orc Saga Update! So the most exciting news for all of you, I'm sure, is that I'm making some real progress in Orc3 at lasst!!!! I know you've all been eager for it, and while it still is likely only about half-done (assuming it is a normal book length book and not something monstrous), I'm really excited to have some momentum again. Patreon Patrons have gotten some sneak peeks of the multiple rounds of Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-42819128066277131172021-03-16T15:27:00.004-04:002021-03-16T15:27:45.229-04:00Fate of the Gods is Going Wide and FACETS Gets a Facelift!This month, most of my Fate of the Gods titles are dropping out of Kindle Unlimited-- Concealing Fate, Enduring Fate, Fate Forgotten, and Beyond Fate already have, with Forged by Fate following on the 25th and Facets of Fate on April 1.I'll be slowly updating the files and uploading them for distribution with kobo, nook, apple books, and more and you'll find the updated links on the Fate of the Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-44761062076155548132020-08-24T14:43:00.004-04:002020-09-01T12:25:12.721-04:00Fate of the Gods Facebook (Re)Read Along
This post will be the home of the permalinks to each installment of the Fate of
the Gods read along discussion posts I've been updating over on facebook, on myauthor page. Anyone can come through and join in the conversation at any point
when they're reading the books, or just kind of see what I had to say about any
particular installment in the comments!
(Mostly it's just me Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-25074678021825297612020-08-13T10:44:00.002-04:002020-08-13T11:16:38.682-04:00PLAYING HOUSE Release Day!The third book in my Playing to Win romcom series, PLAYING HOUSE is available now(!!!!!!) and I am SO TIRED, so it is good to let it fly and be able to breathe a sigh of relief to have my 2020 releases all done and behind me. When you bet on love, the house always
wins. All Violet has ever wanted is to run her family’s barbecue restaurant,
the locally famous Fowler’s. Now, with her parentsAmalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-31876741784924462122020-04-02T10:47:00.000-04:002020-04-02T10:47:16.290-04:00PLAYING IT SAFE Cover Art and PLAYING TO WIN updates!First of all, you may or may not have seen that PLAYING IT SAFE's cover art is LIVE, along with its kindle pre-order! It releases in MAY, and by that point, I'm hopeful that I'll have the pre-order for book 3 ready to go, too--but I won't promise it because lol lol lol lol who knew I'd be launching a third pen name in a Pandemic!!!!! (Book Three, PLAYING HOUSE, is written and in edits--so the Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-12133794138436852802020-02-14T12:30:00.000-05:002020-02-14T12:30:13.864-05:00Happy Valentine's Day from Kate and Sully! (Playing to Win Cover Reveal!)I'm thrilled to share with you the cover art for my VERY FIRST contemporary romance/romantic comedy--the first in an all new series by what will become my THIRD pen name, Amalia Theresa!!
ARE YOU READY?!?!?! (I have been DYING to share this with you for AGES.)
And the back cover copy, too, of course!!
When dating is a lottery, you have to play to win.Best
friends since Freshman year at Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-5069019556844646722019-12-31T13:06:00.000-05:002019-12-31T13:06:34.572-05:002019 ReleasesIn case you missed anything, here's a complete list (with links!) of all my 2019 releases--a couple are Patreon exclusive, and while I've included a direct link, you'll still have to become a patron (for as little as a dollar a month) to get access!
Novels/Novellas
From Asgard, With Love (Wide Release Links; Amazon)
Enduring Fate
Concealing Fate
Faults of Fate (Paperback Collection)
Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-542838917083350542019-12-18T10:22:00.000-05:002019-12-18T10:23:33.874-05:00Son of Zeus: Pirithous on Patreon!If you're all caught up on your Fate of the Gods reading (or Fate of the Gods isn't your thing) I've got something new for you, too! Your favorite secondary character from HELEN OF SPARTA, and leading man in TAMER OF HORSES, Pirithous is BACK in a new modern day adventure--ONLY on Patreon!
Chapter One and Chapter Two are FREE to read if you want to see what it's all about, but Chapter Three Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-17607595816728064772019-11-17T14:32:00.000-05:002019-11-17T14:32:15.861-05:00Concealing Fate has arrived! Faults of Fate is coming soon!
Amazon
So I missed Concealing Fate's release day but it's here! For Kindle and in Paperback, if that is your jam! Huzzah!
I'm pretty excited about this one, and I loved writing it, so I hope you'll enjoy reading it, too. And displaying it on your bookshelf, maybe, because I know I will be!
Anyway, the real impetus of this blogpost is that I wanted to offer some notes regarding the reading Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-24883409354498002312019-11-02T10:56:00.000-04:002019-11-02T11:04:21.565-04:00Honoring Aunt Lottie
When my grandmother was sick, too ill to remember me or really to even know me at all between one visit and the next, it was Aunt Lottie who fussed over how tall I’d grown or how old I’d gotten, who was eager to hear about what I’d accomplished and express concern for my health or struggles, and even gave me small gifts to mark my special occasions growing up. It was Aunt Lottie who helped me Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-41145602173944184412019-10-10T06:30:00.000-04:002019-10-10T06:30:03.436-04:00A Note about the "Present Day" Timeline of Fate of the GodsIt occurred to me while writing Concealing Fate (Pre-Order Now!) that I probably needed to clarify the when of Eve and Garrit's courtship a little bit more precisely. Things have changed so much, so quickly--the way we meet one another, the means by which we communicate. Even five or ten years makes a huuuuuuuuge difference to a story set in the now. And the now of when I wrote something andAmalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458380.post-68625682798158219612019-10-02T08:57:00.000-04:002019-10-02T08:57:24.375-04:00Concealing Fate Cover RevealIt's Here, It's Here!!!! CONCEALING FATE's Cover!!!!! I have been DESPERATE to show this one off for MONTHS and MONTHS and I'm so excited!!!!
I also have a Kindle Pre-Order link for you AND a Goodreads link! It releases NOVEMBER 7th! WITH a Paperback Edition, too, because it is NEARLY 45,000 words long!!! I refuse to apologize!
Please do Klikk Klikk and/or pass the word along, and give Amalia Dillinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005039978668326144noreply@blogger.com0