Author Interview: Suzanne Rogerson and The Lost Sentinel #indieauthor #fantasy

Posted on January 15, 2020 by suzannerogersonfantasyauthor

I’ve just featured in my first author interview of the year. Pop over to Kim’s blog to find out more.

The Lost Sentinel
Silent Sea Chronicles #1
Suzanne Rogerson
Epic Fantasy

The magical island of Kalaya is dying, along with its Sentinel.

The Assembly controls Kalaya. Originally set up to govern, they now persecute those with magic and exile them to the Turrak Mountains.
Tei, a tailor’s daughter, has always hidden her magic but when her father’s old friend visits and warns them to flee to the mountains she must leave her old life behind.

On the journey, an attack leaves her father mortally wounded. He entrusts her into the care of the exiles and on his deathbed makes a shocking confession.

Struggling with self-doubt, Tei joins the exiles search for their new Sentinel who is the only person capable of restoring the fading magic. But mysterious Masked Riders are hunting the Sentinel too, and time, as well as hope, is running out.

Against mounting odds it will take friendship…

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New Year Quarterly Plan. Bring on 2020! #indieauthor #goals #amwriting

Posted on January 7, 2020 by suzannerogersonfantasyauthor

I would like to wish everyone a very happy new year. I hope 2020 is a fruitful and productive year for us all.

Before I lay out my quarterly plan, here’s a quick look back at 2019. The year was one of my quietest yet on the blogging front. But I did have the excuse of having written and published the final book in my Silent Sea Chronicles trilogy and also publishing the box set. I also released the audiobook of Visions of Zarua and went to visit the Czech edition of the book in a few bookshops in Prague. I also had three blog tours over the space of five months and a number of author events.

In 2019 reading and blogging took a back seat and with the schedule I’ve set myself in 2020 it looks like it will be more of the same. I have some exciting stories on the go and I’m really looking forward to continuing my self publishing journey. I even plan to finally get my newsletter up and running soon. So here is my quarterly plan…

January 2020

Plan the remaining chapters of my WIP.
Draft the dual timeline story for my WIP.
Read and develop novella linking to current WIP, which will be offered as a reader magnet for my newsletter.
Enter Visions of Zarua into audiobook competition.
Set up Newsletter

February 2020

Complete the final draft of WIP including the dual timeline story.
Complete novella and give to newsletter subscribers.
Work on the next chapters of my portal novel.
Read an old completed novel and determine if it can be rewritten. Write out a full novel plan.

March 2020

Prepare the WIP for beta readers.
Publish novella in ebook format.
Read my second novel written years ago to determine if it’s worth re-writing and complete a novel plan for it.
Continue work on portal novel and start drafting up a plan.

Misc. tasks to slot in when time allows

Work on short story ideas for the book I plan to publish in the future.

Consider whether to work on a how to guide for kindle publishing as I’ve had several requests to do so.

Work on the website look and create a landing page for the newsletter.

Research ways to earn money from home using the skills I’ve learnt writing, editing, publishing and helping with my husband’s business.

Reading for the year

My Goodreads challenge of 2019 was 35 books but I only managed to read about 22.

I am being very careful this year and only going for 15 books. Hopefully I can smash this target and I would love to start reviewing books on my blog again though I won’t add that to the to do list just yet!

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My website’s new look! #fantasy #indieauthor

Posted on January 6, 2020 by suzannerogersonfantasyauthor

As it’s the beginning of 2020 and the start of a new decade I’ve decided on a new look for my author brand. This includes the banner for my social media accounts, plus bookmarks and business cards with the same design.

I love this image, don’t you?

My good friend Gareth, who writes zombie books and thrillers (check out his blog here) has been a great help. He helped me pick the image, added all the info and got the dimensions set up for the different formats.

The quote above is from an Amazon review of Visions of Zarua by Strawberry (Cat). I’ve also used a couple of quotes on the bookmarks which will hopefully arrive in a week or so and in time for our next venture out into the world trying to sell our paperbacks.

Let me know what you think of the new look.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my quarterly writing plan.

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Suzanne Rogerson – Author of epic and heroic fantasy

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