<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">I may have mentioned (about a million times) that my <em>Grymm &amp; Epic Guide to Blogging</em> is one of the bonuses in the <a href="http://bit.ly/f0ykQn">World Changing Writers Workshop</a>, run by Pace and Kyeli and featuring some seriously amazing writers (SARK! Bindu Wiles! Ali Luke!)</span>

It’s too late to sign up to the live-action workshop, but is totally not too late to get the World Changing Writers Workshop in-a-Box! (box not included). This is all the awesomeness of the workshop – the audio files, the transcripts, the workbooks, the bonuses, and all the madnesss – wrapped up in a pretty zip folder for you to enjoy at your own pace.

And it’s on sale till Monday. For $297. After Monday the price goes back up $445.

50% of the sales from this promotion are going to the 50 for 50 – Colleen of the Communicatrix is raising $50 000 for her 50th birthday, and giving it all to WriteGirl, an organization to help aspiring young writers achieve their dreams. So not only are you changing the world with your writing, you’re helping others to change the world, too.

If your interest is piqued, click here to learn more about the course and purchase your very own copy for a crazy mad special price:

(Affiliate link ahoy! Pace and Kyeli are awesome, I’ve done this course myself, TWICE, and it’s awesome – even experienced writers will learn oodles – and my ebook is seriously the worst thing about it – that’s how rad it is.)

I don’t normally use this newsletter to recommend products, but that’s how much I adore this course and recommend you do it. Up to you – totally no biggie if you decide it’s not for you.

Here endeth my special announcement. Back to categorizing my photographs of the lead singer of Eluveitie according to his level of hotness.

Don’t miss all the fun! Sign up to receive blog updates by RSS or Email, and while you’re in a signing-up mood, don’t forget the Grymm & Epic Gazette – you’ll get my FREE ebook “Unleash the Beast: Release Your Inner Creative Monster”, as well as a weekly dose of creative inspiration. Grymm!

When I was starting out on my mission to conquer the Internet world via Grymm & Epic, Ali of Aliventures was one of the first people to support this project. That’s how I first found her site and I’ve been learning and loving it ever since.

Ali is a lovely, kind and easy-going writer who started off making a full-time income writing paid blogs for sites like Daily Writing Tips. She now coaches writers, writes and sells ebooks on writing (including the awesome Bloggers’ Guide to Freelancing), creates amazing writing e-courses, and is about to self-publish her first novel about what happens when the world of Geekdom becomes very, very real.

General

Firstly, we just want to know who you are, and what you do. Can you share your journey from mini-Ali to Aliventures?

Sure! As a teenager, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I worked on a really bad sci-fi novel in my mid-teens, holing up in the school library in my lunch-hours. (I wasn’t the most sociable of kids…)

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I‘ve got vampires on the brain.

I blame it the kobo website, who has cottoned on to the fact I like books about bloodsuckers, so sends me daily emails about the latest fanged thrillers. I blame Poppy Z Brite, whose book Lost Souls restored my love of erotic horror, after it had been shattered by the Twilight books (which, to be fair, had a lot of the erotic but not nearly enough horror). And I blame today’s guest, New York Times Best-Selling author of steamy vampire urban fantasy, Jeaniene Frost, for getting my vampire on four years ago with Halfway to the Grave.

But Jeaniene Frost isn’t just an author, she’s in part responsible for bringing vampires and urban fantasy back into the mainstream, and her legions of fans worldwide (her novels have been translated into seventeen languages) attest to her remarkable ability to write amazing books and get them in front of the people who want to read them. I’m thrilled to sparkling bits to have Jeaniene here today for an Epic Interrogation about how she kicks ass with her creative business:
Firstly, we’d just like to know who you are, what you write, and what’s new in the world of Jeaniene Frost?
Thank you so much for having me. I’m the author of the Night Huntress series and Night Huntress World novels, which are urban fantasy romances containing vampires, ghouls, ghosts, demons, and a sprinkling of black magic. The most recent novel to hit the shelves was This Side of the Grave, and my next novel is One Grave at a Time, which releases August 30^th.

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I’m working on my novel this weekend. It is the most wonderful weekend I’ve spent working in a long time.

I don’t talk about my novels very often, because this is a blog about being an awesome business chick, and when I think of the four unsold novels sitting on my hard drive, I don’t feel so awesome. That’s a lot of hours of writing for no direct benefit.

Or was it?

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