http://victoriamixon.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:12:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I should have asked you guys your opinions a long time ago. You have been really amazing about the whole book cover issue. I'm sorry---I'm a slow learner. I promise to do better in the future. So today I'm going to ask your opinions on a subject discussed intelligently and at ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/09/digitizing-books-expanding-your-mind/ All right, everyone. You've been so great. But I need a final vote. We added a fourth option in the post below, based on your comments on what works and what doesn't in the other three, and keeping in mind that at least one word has to be readable in ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/06/voting-again/ Okay, guys. I need your help. We've been tinkering with the cover. This is one of the beauties of indie publishing (although I've been advised today that that's a kind of misleading term. . .you'll read about it next week in my interview with Peter Bowerman, author The Well-Fed Self-Publisher). Not ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/05/voting-on-my-book-cover/ My guest post on She Writes for today is on the editing of THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION. How's it going? Well, it's going. . . http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/05/editing-my-own-book-today-on-she-writes/ I have a guest post up at the Literary Lab today. Have you lost friends to critiquing? Are you afraid someday you will? http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/04/sharing-wips-or-the-milk-of-human-kindness/ Bob Spear is a long-time bokstore owner, book reviewer & packager, and self-published author. Bob has published 11 books of nonfiction and is working on five mysteries to be self-published soon. He currently blogs about his venture back into the world of self-publishing with his latest mystery, Quad Delta. First---why did ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/02/bob-spear-the-third-indie-publishing-interview/ I'm reproducing here a blog post I wrote about indie pubishing as a guest blogger on She Writes. You'll all recognize the reference to Pamela. I spent yesterday morning in a fascinating conversation, a twenty-minute interview that ballooned into an hour and a half. I was talking to She Writes member ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/03/01/getting-into-indie-publishing/ "Hey, Mom! I just got done planning a book about relativity. I outlined 20 chapters, and I'm going to write them all. I even came up with chapter titles. And you're going to love it, because it's full of faux resolutions." http://victoriamixon.com/2010/02/26/quoting-the-youngest-writer-in-my-house/ Today we're linking to a guy my husband knows, Joe Brockmeier, a professional writer who's written a great post on exactly what that job is. Writing's always been a fun idea for people who really like written language and telling stories (some folks call them "lies"), and lots of us out ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/02/26/linking-to-professional-writer-joe-brockmeier/ Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos independently published her book, Silent Sorority, on April 18, 2009, after eighteen months of approaching traditional publishers from her background as a professional marketer. She did her due diligence, spent five years writing her book, hired an editor and designer, identified her unique, focused market, and blogged ... http://victoriamixon.com/2010/02/24/silent-sorority-the-second-indie-publishing-interview/