I would like to thank author and blogger Angela G. Williams for this wonderful guest appearance:
Author Spotlight: Andrew McDowell – Weaving Worlds of Fantasy and Wonder
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Tag: YA Novels
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Read an eBook Week
As today is the start of Read an eBook Week, here’s all of my work available digitally, whether in Kindle, Nook, or another eBook vendor. If you’re an eBook lover looking for your next read, I hope you find something that piques your interest. If you prefer print, they are available in print, too.
These are my novels, which feature magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and much more:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read | IngramSpark
Waterstones | Foyles
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read | IngramSpark
Waterstones | Foyles
And here are all anthologies available digitally and in hard copy that feature my poetry and/or short stories. This one includes my poem inspired by a real black cat:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read | IngramSpark
This one includes four of my haiku poems:
Amazon | Goodreads
This one includes six of my poems as well as six pencil drawings of mine:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
This one includes my short story about a monster-sized hammerhead shark:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
This one includes a poem I wrote inspired by the COVID pandemic:
Amazon | Goodreads
Waterstones
This one includes two of my poems and my fable about a mouse and a frog:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read
Waterstones | Foyles
These two include a psychological horror story involving knives and two of my poems, one of which is in the style of “The Raven.”
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read
Waterstones | Foyles
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
This one includes five of my poems:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read | IngramSpark
Waterstones | Foyles
This anthology features six of my poems:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read | IngramSpark
And this anthology features one poem of mine:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
Ratings/reviews are always appreciated. Mystical Greenwood reached 50 ratings on Amazon US last month! If you already have read and reviewed one of my works, and enjoyed it, please recommend it to a friend!
As it’s also Read Across America Day, I encourage all, not just my fellow Americans, to find the joy in reading and share it with as many people as you can, especially the young.
P.S. If you’re interested in opportunities for giving a writing presentation or workshop, submissions are open for the Maryland Writers’ Conference 2025.
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Books Make Great Gifts
With the holidays now approaching, whether you are looking for yourself or someone you know, books make great gifts! So I wanted to re-share my published works that are available. In this first post, I’m highlighting my work available in eBook and print.
These are my novels, which feature magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and much more:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read | IngramSpark
Waterstones | Foyles
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read | IngramSpark
Waterstones | Foyles
And here are all anthologies available digitally and in hard copy that feature my poetry and/or short stories. This one includes my poem inspired by a real black cat:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read | IngramSpark
This one includes four of my haiku poems:
Amazon | Goodreads
This one includes six of my poems as well as six pencil drawings of mine:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
This one includes my short story about a monster-sized hammerhead shark:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
This one includes a poem I wrote inspired by the COVID pandemic:
Amazon | Goodreads
Waterstones
This one includes two of my poems and my fable about a mouse and a frog:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read
Waterstones | Foyles
These two include a psychological horror story involving knives and two of my poems, one of which is in the style of “The Raven.”
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read
Waterstones | Foyles
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | Books2Read
And this one includes five of my poems:
Amazon | Goodreads | B&N | BAM! | Books2Read | IngramSpark
Waterstones | Foyles
Those available only in print will be featured tomorrow. Stay tuned. Ratings and reviews are always appreciated!
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Coming Soon! Beneath the Deep Wave
That’s right! It’s coming out in August. Here is the cover:
Beneath the Deep Wave is available for preorder from some vendors as an eBook, but not yet in Kindle, Nook, or print. More sales links will be posted when available. In the meantime, here’s a synopsis, and be sure to read and review Mystical Greenwood before Beneath the Deep Wave comes out. That way you’ll be caught up and won’t have to deal with spoilers!
And would you believe it, this is my 100th blog post! That’s a milestone. Many thanks to Sally Cronin, also, for sharing one of my previous posts in her Posts from Your Archives series. It’s been a good start, I think, to the year. I’ve taken further steps to balance the scales beyond social media. For this year’s Lent, I’ve given up watching videos on the computer, so my only YouTube usage has been on the TV. I’ve also been trying to limit my email logins to three per day.
I hope to see you next month at my presentation on word and page counts. See my events page for more details! I’m also hoping to be on panels at this year’s Balticon. I’ll post more details when I have them.
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Coming Later this Week!
It’s almost here! Yes, I’m talking about the new edition of Mystical Greenwood from Fae Corps! Don’t forget! There is a launch party on August 26th on Facebook in the Fae Corps Inc Party Room group.
You can still pre-order eBooks! The paperback through Barnes & Noble can be pre-ordered now, too! It seems that B&N and Amazon issue separate ISBNs now (paperback via Amazon should be ready around the release day).
Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon AU
Goodreads | Barnes & Noble | Books2Read
It’s hard to believe that it’s happening. This book has been on quite a journey, and with this new edition I took the opportunity to make many grammatical corrections.
In fact, I learned this month that in a contest I submitted the original edition to in Top Shelf Magazine, which I’d forgotten about, the book was an honorable mention. It was a nice little surprise, and it can only make me wonder what’s in store for the new edition!
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been trying to reestablish a morning writing routine, as I’d mentioned previously. I have found that two things have contributed to making it successful:
- Sitting at a table as opposed to on the couch. When it comes to writing rather than editing, posture matters, it seems.
- Not logging onto the internet until after I’m done.
Basically, the writing time (as of now) lasts as long as my two morning cups of coffee with Coffee Mate French Vanilla cream, so I guess I now have a writing beverage. But more than anything else, the discipline of doing it, even when barely a few words barely make it out (which has happened a few times), is what is making it work. Here’s hoping it continues and gets more productive. Maybe it’ll progress to a weekly word count, like I had to do in a novella class taught by Professor Jerry Gabriel back at St. Mary’s College. We’ll see.
Andrew McDowell 