Tanya Lisle

Creative on a health break

Category: Publishing

  • Guided Character Development Workbook is out!

    I’m very happy to announce that I’ve managed to make something! After some feedback on the workbooks, I’ve heard you and I’ve put together something that is much more guided!

    (Also, I now understand that my understanding of a workbook is different than others, and I should have been more clear that those were more guided and structured workbooks, my bad!)

    Guided Character Development Workbook is designed to walk you through my process of developing a character, as well as give you everything you need to integrate their character traits into your writing, helping you show who your character is rather than telling.

    I hope you enjoy it! Do let me know what you think and if there’s any other things you are interested in. This was a lot of fun and I’m starting to think of some other processes that might be helpful.

    Twisted Eden
  • The growing acceptance of self publishing

    The growing acceptance of self publishing

    I’ve been going back to craft fairs and art markets, which is exciting in its own right, but I’ve started to notice a shift lately. When I talk to people who come to my table interested in the books the first question is if I wrote all of these books. The second is if I published them myself.

    The response is significantly more positive than when I started.

    There have been a lot of discussions over the last decade of doing this where people have opined about how self publishing is not to be held on the same level as traditional publishing and I have largely learned to tune the think pieces out over the years. I’ve been self conscious about taking the easy way out in publishing off and on for ages and the discussions were ultimately not giving me any new information.

    But the thoughts of the people who were actually reading the books, they were the ones I cared a lot more about. The majority of readers aren’t engaged in these online debates, though the hesitancy towards self published works was still definitely there at the start. That seems to be changing now, and the casual reader is a lot more willing to pick up something and give it a try.

    Some of this might have to do with being a local author that they were able to speak with directly, granted. But overall, watching the change in attitude gives me a lot of hope. I know how much work I put into my stories, and it’s nice to see that it’s not going to waste.

  • Should you use a pen name?

    Should you use a pen name?

    The question of pen names comes up when people are early in their publishing journey, as well it should! But it can still be a very difficult decision to make. As someone who started with a pen name and then switched to my real name, it can be a difficult choice to reverse. It’s gotten harder on some platforms over the years!

    So to help, I’ve put together a quick quiz to help you with the choice.

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  • Beatrice is out!

    Another book already? The final installment of Cloned Evil is out!

    If death didn’t stop her, then neither would her family. 

    At last, Bea was free of all of the curses keeping her silent and still. With nothing left to keep her in her mother’s basement, she escapes to the west coast to resume the life she’d made for herself so long ago, away from her family and their demands to satisfy their expectations. It’s almost like the last year never happened. Almost. 

    But Apex is still watching her every move. When Red and Gigi track her down, she enlists them both as bodyguards to keep the organization from getting too close. But Apex just won’t let her go and Bea isn’t sure if it’s worth running from them any longer. 

    Get it now

  • Georgina is out!

    Cloned Evil has a brand new installment out! Continue the story Red started with Georgina!

    “No one ever made you raise the dead. The dead can only ask nicely. Or not so nicely.”

    Gigi’s ghost problem has only gotten worse. The death of her biological father turned her magic evil, and the spirits won’t leave her alone. Worse, she accidentally teleported to the United States, where the punishment for wrongdoing may result in death at the hands of US heroes.

    Her only hope to return home is to rely on her villainous sisters who have no qualms about using any underhanded means they have at their disposal. If Gigi uses her magic, she’ll expose just how dark it’s become—and she knows better than most that no one with dark magic can be allowed to remain free.

    Get it now

  • Fredrika is out!

    It’s out! It’s finally out! The first in the Cloned Evil trilogy is finally available!

    It would be a lot easier to break into the assassination game if her targets stayed dead.

    If she wanted her own money, Fredrika knew she would have to start getting her own jobs. With her peculiar accent, it was hard to get people to take her seriously, but her first solo job falls into her lap.

    Before Fredrika can collect her pay, her estranged superhero sister, Gigi, comes back into her life desperate for help. She’s been seeing ghosts and, when she brings Fredrika’s first target back to life, Fredrika’s not sure if helping Gigi is worth the trouble she brings with her.

    Get it now!

  • Fredrika Cover and Preorder Campaign

    It’s time to let you know that I have a book coming out! Yes, another one!

    This is the first in a trilogy and will be a bit of a departure from what I’ve done before. It focuses on the story of three sisters in their 20s and their journey to figure out who they are. Okay, maybe not that different.

    Fredrika will be out on June 21st, 2021.

    It would be a lot easier to break into the assassination game if her targets stayed dead.

    If she wanted her own money, Fredrika knew she would have to start getting her own jobs. With her peculiar accent, it was hard to get people to take her seriously, but her first solo job falls into her lap.

    Before Ferdrika can collect her pay, her estranged superhero sister, Gigi, comes back into her life desperate for help. She’s been seeing ghosts and, when she brings Fredrika’s first target back to life, Fredrika’s not sure if helping Gigi is worth the trouble she brings with her.

    I’m also running a preorder campaign! Yes, if you preorder you’ll get some free stuff! It’s open internationally, so do check it out!

    Fredrika Preorder

  • All Mad Here for Preorder

    I’m entering editing, which means it’s time to set up the preorder for All Mad Here! It will be out on August 24th, hopefully with the paperback as well, but you can guarantee to get the ebook as soon as it’s out!

    She was starting to feel the defeat in her victories. Another day. Another day… 

    Adrianna is taking matters into her own hands. If Alice wasn’t going to help herself, then she was going to do it for her. After saving her from another holiday with her father, she was ready for Wonderland to come back into her life again and she was prepared. But the days keep passing and everything remains far too quiet. 

    Alice is tired. She’s done everything she could possibly think of to make the people around her happy, but it still isn’t enough. Nothing she ever does is enough, and Alice isn’t sure why she’s trying so hard to resist the madness for them.

    (Description also needs a good editing! Stay tuned!)

    Preorder All Mad Here!

  • Gentle Current Into Danger is now out!

    Today is the day! Book 8 of The Looking Glass Saga is out!

    If there was one thing Alice was good at, it was lying.

    When Alice swears that she is done with Wonderland, Adrianna wants to believe she is telling the truth. Alice has stopped going to Wonderland, stopped vanishing at a whim, stopped ignoring her teachers in class. It’s like she’s a whole new girl, one that is ready to move on with her life and start working toward her future.

    But there are cracks appearing in the mirrors–and in Alice’s facade. There is more to that growing illness than she is letting on. But Adrianna has other problems, from Arthur blackmailing her into a relationship to her brother still being possessed. It’s only a matter of time before Wonderland comes knocking again, and someone will answer its call.

    Get it on Amazon!

  • Gentle Current Into Danger coming April 15th!

    Yes, I realize I didn’t actually make this announcement yet, so here it is! Gentle Current Into Danger, the eighth book in The Looking Glass Saga, is coming out on April 15th, 2020!

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    If there was one thing Alice was good at, it was lying.

    When Alice swears that she is done with Wonderland, Adrianna wants to believe she is telling the truth. Alice has stopped going to Wonderland, stopped vanishing at a whim, stopped ignoring her teachers in class. It’s like she’s a whole new girl, one that is ready to move on with her life and start working toward her future.

    But there are cracks appearing in the mirrors–and in Alice’s facade. There is more to that growing illness than she is letting on. But Adrianna has other problems, from Arthur blackmailing her into a relationship to her brother still being possessed. It’s only a matter of time before Wonderland comes knocking again, and someone will answer its call.

    Preorder Gentle Current Into Danger now!