It’s live! At midnight last night, we released my second book on writing: The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual It’s available in print through CreateSpace, in ePub through Smashwords, and should be on the Kindle as soon as they’re done dinking around with it. And for all… Read more“<em>The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual</em>”
Tag: Art and Craft of Fiction
Interview & Review
Frequent commenter Shane Arthur of Editing Hacks interviewed me for his series on editors. Thank you, Shane! Now you all must hie yourselves on over there and make sure I’m telling the truth (not you clients, though—you guys’ll out me). And Helen Gallagher of Blogcritics.com has reviewed The Art &… Read more“Interview & Review”
E-release, on She Writes
I wrote about the release of my book for She Writes today, my final guest post for them.
THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION:
A PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL
Please welcome into the world, folks, my first book in fourteen years: The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual. Pretty much everything that went into the first eight months of this blog is here, organized, edited, and shaped into a single all-encompassing volume on creating this wonderful thing… Read more“THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION:<br>A PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL”
Voting AGAIN
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… Read more“Voting AGAIN”
Voting on my book cover
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 misleading term. . .authors who publish themselves are, technically, self-publishers and small publishers who publish other people are indie—although unless you… Read more“Voting on my book cover”
Doing what I can for you guys
Now I’ve just realized my last post on working with an independent editor was back around NaNoWriMo, which is kind of silly. That was a really long time ago. So let’s talk a little about working with an editor. You guys want to do it. I know you do, because… Read more“Doing what I can for you guys”