S.M. McCoy (Sky Robert) is the author of Sci-fi and Fantasy Romances such as the alien romance series Treasures of Trillume, Necia Alien Warriors, and the Dark Gods Rising Greek Myth Retelling Series about Medusa.
Born within the apex of another universe, where magic flows like leaky faucets, and forged from the fires of the Underrealm she dug her way to Earth and reluctantly participates in human society, secretly returning to her home world to relay the stories of her monsters, and the troubled love of her imaginary people. When she isn’t writing, she’s narrating audiobooks, reading alien romances and fantasy adventures, cuddling her tiny humans in training, and playing video games in the rainy city of Seattle, Washington.
Mom, Adventurer, and book nerd.
Author Note:
Thank you for finding your way to my small part of the internet to get to know me and discover my books. I'm a small indie author, doing my best to bring fun stories to life! I choose to self publish because I took the traditional route, finding a small publisher that accepted me, but found unless you have a big marketing budget, traditional publishing isn't any better than indie publishing, except you're giving up much of the control for cost effective ways of marketing on a budget. I actually lost money with traditional publishing as my marketing expenses never balanced out with what I made from sales. With indie publishing, I can do the same marketing and see that I can breakeven on costs instead of digging a financial hole.
To date, three of my books have broken even on their costs to bring to life and those three books are finally working towards paying back my time invested in making them. Her Alien Savior, Her Alien Prince, and Her Alien Warrior! All of my start up costs for forming my pen name Sky Robert were wrapped up into my first book Jewel of the Alien Bandit, so even though the book has made around the same amount as the other three, it is technically carrying the weight of my author platform and isn't considered broken even yet. This is an accomplishment that I was unable to achieve with traditionally publishing.
What are your goals?
Around 3-4 books released per year. I have tons of ideas in my brain, and with your help all that crazy can become reality. It’s a curse… I can’t stop… won’t stop writing. <insert funny gif of a cat and typewriter and dancing, with glitter, and lasers.>
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How do you write so many books? You have over 10 books!
I think the better question is how do I finish so many books, because it took me 8 to 9 years to complete my first book, Blood Crescent, a YA psychic vampire romance. I did complete that series, writing two more books, Blood Rebirth and Blood Queen. They are now, discontinued, but that is because I plan on completely rewriting them with better execution and more spice to match with my other writing projects more. I also wrote Kingdom of Acatalec, my traditionally published book, but that too has been discontinued because I, yes you guessed it, plan on remaking it for an indie release!
But how did I finish them?
I struggle with ADHD symptoms, though, it's possible it's post traumatic stress, as symptoms are very much overlapping, or even possible neurodiverence, which is highly underreported in females, but it's mostly a self diagnostic. Merely confirmation of symptoms I must work through in therapy for management of them. I think accepting that I'm not broken was a big first step to actually completing tasks instead of having a mountain of unfinished ones. Labeling it, regardless of whether it's nuerodivergence, or trauma response from my childhood, it really didn't matter to me which it was, only to accept the symptoms my brain was providing and work with them. Beating myself up over it, wasn't solving anything.
Everyone is different on how they work with their brains to accomplish the task called life, and what worked for me will not work for everyone, but I accepted that I preferred to procrastinate and start new projects when things got hard or close to completion. I decided to trick my brain, by convincing myself that it was still procrastinating the current project to go back to an old project, and then as soon as my brain stopped hyper focusing on it, and realized that it was tricked, I would then do the same thing again by procrastinating that project the another already started project. Basically creating a revolving system of a closed loop until one of the already started 6 projects was completed. Once completing one project, I would allow myself to create a "new" project to add to the loop, but as soon as the hyper focus was gone, I would continue the loop until the next one was completed. It didn't matter to me which project was completed first.
Which is why, you will find that have SEVERAL works in progress, and will have a new work in progress every time I've announced a book has been completed and sent off to the editor.
CURRENT ROTATION!
Reaping Olympus: book three of the Dark Gods Rising Medusa Retelling
Unity University: A Unicorn-shifter academy romance
Goblin's Treasure: A labyrinth dark romance retelling
Mated to the Enemy: A lycan werewolf shifter romance
Kingdom of Acatalec: rewriting for relaunch a sci-fi fantasy vampire romance
The Serpent's Curse: rewriting the Divine series into an adult psychic vampire romance