What’s up with Gwen these days?

  • Novel 002 Finished! Draft 5 is, anyway

    You may be thinking to yourself: SHROUD OF DAWN is called “Novel 002” because THE RAVEN was the first book, right? Wrong! THE RAVEN is actually called “Novel 003”. I don’t need to explain myself to you. (I will, though: Novel 001 was a bit ambitious for me, so I shelved it. I’ll circle back…

  • The Raven won a silver IBPA Ben Franklin award!

    THE RAVEN was a finalist for the Fiction: Horror category, and won a silver! Which really just means it didn’t win the gold but I don’t care, this is cool as hell! Congrats to fellow silver winner GIRL AMONG CROWS by Brendon Vayo, and especially to the winner of the category, THE WOODKIN by Alexander…

  • Still Almost Done

    It turns out that not having a lot of experience writing endings makes endings difficult to write. Interesting…  I’ve been stuck at the end of Shroud of Dawn for a little while now; I know what I need to solve, but not how to solve it–and it’s difficult to ask for help from anyone other…

  • The Race to Be Imperfect

    Working on Novel 02, I’m finding out that it’s criminally difficult to both put out a work that you’re proud of and to put it out in a timely manner. Some wise man once said that if 100% is perfection, then we should all strive for 80%; and they’re right, of course. But why not…

  • The Raven Has Been Released

    The Raven Has Been Released

    The Raven is out! It’s achieved freedom! That’s! Not great in-universe, to be honest, but here it’s awesome. The Kindle version will be 99c for the first week, so keep an eye out for that. You can also request it at your local library! We stan libraries here at the Gwendolyn Kress Institute, and The…