<p>Our crowdfunder for Fourteen Stones&#8217;s launch is coming very soon! I&#8217;m so excited to share this book with you. Today, as we gear up for the start of the crowdfunder, I thought I&#8217;d share a little &#8220;virtual tour&#8221; of the place where my novel took shape. I&#8217;m not the greatest housekeeper (in fact, if there&#8217;s &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/02/the-writing-cave/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen

<p>Last week on the blog, I posted a teaser reading from the beginning of my novel Fourteen Stones. I&#8217;ve got another teaser today, this one introducing my favorite character from the book. Fourteen Stones follows the stories of four major characters. Three of them were pretty easy to write, especially the &#8220;bonus one&#8221; who got &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/26/playing-favorites/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-r

<p>My novel Fourteen Stones is shaping up into a real book. 🙂 We&#8217;re working on the proofs, and yesterday I got my first look at the official maps of my fictional world. Four years ago, I drew sketches &#8211; I&#8217;m no visual artist &#8211; to help me keep the places straight in my head and &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/19/fourteen-stones-sneak-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fourteen Stones sne

<p>If you&#8217;re a writer, do you like to listen to music while you work? For me, that used to be a hard no. I love music, but I used to need all the quiet I could get when I was writing, to get myself into the right head space. Things have changed a little over &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/21/musical-motivation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Musical Motivation</span></a></p>

<p>Today I&#8217;m thinking about writing (when not?), and more particularly, the connection it has for me with mental health. Here on the blog, I&#8217;ve posted about my own mental health challenges, especially with anxiety and depression. I know many of us deal with similar challenges, and I like to be open about mine, because (a) &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/14/writing-and-mental-health/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-re

<p>Sometimes I get pretty philosophical here&#8230;hoping you&#8217;ll bear with me today! Making art is a challenging business. I know my fellow &#8220;makers&#8221; relate to this: we spend a lot of time, usually solitary time, piecing together the ideas in our heads, separating tangled threads and weaving them into something we hope will connect with someone &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/07/on-hummingbirds/" class="more-link">Continue reading <spa

<p>Last week, I finished the first draft of the new novel I&#8217;ve been working on since November. Writing a book tends to be an obsessive process for me. Once the story begins to drive itself, at that wonderful locking-into-gear point somewhere in the first thirty pages or so, I don&#8217;t want to do much of &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/05/23/the-book-engine/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Book Engine</span

<p>Where&#8217;s Namora? Right now, mostly inside my head. But when my book Fourteen Stones comes out this fall, I hope you&#8217;ll pay my favorite little country a visit. It&#8217;s a beautiful place. Fourteen Stones got its start in the summer of 2015, when my husband and I visited the northwestern corner of Spain, traveling in &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/05/17/welcome-to-namora/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">