by Colby R Rice | Apr 18, 2016 | Book Reviews, Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements, Independent (Indie) Publishing, Writing & Editing
Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day by Chris Fox My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is, like the others Fox has written in this series, AWESOME. And super inspirational. I already have a daily writing habit, but as I have so many ideas, so many...
by Colby R Rice | Apr 11, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
THOUGHTS, RAMBLINGS, WHATEVS This past week was all about relaxing, regaining my strength, and spending some amazing quality time with my family. And yes, I count that as an AMAZING creative achievement. Sometimes you don’t know how hard you work and how tired...
by Colby R Rice | Apr 7, 2016 | Book Reviews, Fantasy Romance, New Adult, Novels, Sci-fi Romance / Science Fiction Romance, Young Adult / YA
Gerard’s Beauty by Marie Hall My rating: 5 of 5 stars BRUH. BRUH!!!!!! Talk about a HOTT n’ sexy story!! I have to say (once again) that Marie Hall’s Kingdom series was an instant favorite of mine. And I have to say (once again) I’m not a...
by Colby R Rice | Apr 4, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
THOUGHTS, RAMBLINGS, WHATEVS This week was actually pretty good in getting stuff done! I spent a lot of time on my first quarter wrap ups as well as my goals for this coming quarter. I felt pretty good about where I landed and how I was launching, so no complaints...
by Colby R Rice | Apr 3, 2016 | Book Reviews, Fantasy Romance, New Adult, Novels, Sci-fi Romance / Science Fiction Romance, Young Adult / YA
The Descendant by Ally Capraro My rating: 3 of 5 stars Great premise and interesting storyline with tons of potential! The Descendent is a solid first act in a sci-fi romance series, with an interesting premise, an eternal battle, and a tender romance that will...
by Colby R Rice | Apr 1, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
Surprisingly, I don’t really have too many goals for Q2. Just six big ones. Lol! (Talk about raising the bar…) Believe it or not, keeping my goal list small makes my focus all the easier to maintain, lol. Oh! And I’ve also included my writing &...
by Colby R Rice | Mar 31, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
THOUGHTS N’ STUFF Zomg… so this quarter was really action-packed and yet also muckier than a swamp. (Basically, a lot got done but it was hard to do, I hit a lot of snags, and things moved pretty slowly. It was truly an uphill battle.) But the point...
by Colby R Rice | Mar 28, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
THOUGHTS, RAMBLINGS, WHATEVS This week sort of meandered, but I was still able to get a crap load of stuff done. #paradoxes Which makes me feel relieved. I think I said this before, but sometimes it’s difficult knowing what my actual abilities are (putting in...
by Colby R Rice | Mar 21, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
So last week held its shares of victories and disappointments, but I soldier on! The main bummer last week, honestly, was that I did NOT make the semi-finalist list for the Book Pipeline contest. I’d entered with my Ghosts of Koa novel, but it didn’t quite...
by Colby R Rice | Mar 14, 2016 | Creative Inspiration & Creative Achievements
Feeling good about what I got accomplished this week. I was super productive… only in terms of marketing, though, lol. I guess I’m still waiting for the week where I’m killing it on my word count goals AND in my blogging business AND as a single mom...