If you subscribe to my newsletter, you already know that there’s a rare sale on my novels! Want to find out about sales before everyone else? Sign up here: bit.ly/christiestratosnewslettersignup For Smashwords’ Read an Ebook Week, both of my novels are 50% off. I only put my novels on sale once or twice a year […]
I’m beyond excited to be doing a live reading of The Artist at 7 p.m. ET tonight with Richard H. Stephens on his weekly live read stream! I’m going to read one scene that happens toward the beginning of the book, and Richard will read a couple of the parts, so this will be lots […]
I’m participating this month in JD Estrada’s March of the Writers, a social media challenge where you can get to know all participating authors better and meet new people! If you’d like to participate or you want to know what the prompts are, check out JD’s blog post. My posts will be on Instagram and […]
My writing process changes every time I write a story, whether it’s a novel or a short story. I always have to pants my way through what I’m writing, even if I’m writing to submit to an anthology with a theme or a literary journal. Most of the time with short stories, I mull the […]
Good news! Yet another bookseller is carrying THE ARTIST, now on pre-order and releasing March 30, 2021! You can order it for $0.99 on Barnes & Noble. By the way, I’m currently reading the new historical suspense novel After Alice Fell by Kim Taylor Blakemore, and I’m updating daily along the way. I’m 5% in […]
The Dinner by Herman Koch My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is an unusual book that accomplished A LOT. I have to admit, when I was about 1/3 of the way into it, I started getting antsy. I stopped reading for a while, so my time between reading the first 1/3 or so and […]
raisingdaisy
How frustrating for MM! But it sounds like she made up for her mistake very well and found a great new outlet. And I agree with her about finding a wonderful editor in Christie – she’s the best!
christiestratos
Thank you, Daisy! And I agree that she ended up doing very well regardless of the contest mistake. It’s really exciting to find a new outlet for your writing. Who knows what could come of it!
MM Jaye
raisingdaisy, thank you for your supporting comment! I’m always the one to go for the silver lining! Christie helped a lot though!