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… Read more“Digitizing books, expanding your mind?”
Tag: Fiction Writing Advice
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”
Editing my own book, today on She Writes
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. . .
Sharing WIPS, or The Milk of Human Kindness
I have a guest post up at the Literary Lab today. Have you lost friends to critiquing? Are you afraid someday you will?
Getting into indie publishing
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… Read more“Getting into indie publishing”
Quoting the youngest writer in my house
“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.”
Linking to professional writer Joe Brockmeier
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… Read more“Linking to professional writer Joe Brockmeier”
Silent Sorority: the second self-publishing interview
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… Read more“<em>Silent Sorority:</em> the second self-publishing interview”
Catching up with those illuminated manuscripts—I mean, ebooks
Check out this fascinating look at the evolution of publishing by O’Reilly’s VP of digital initiatives. Are ebooks the new quad type? And this Week in Review in the NY Times on the history of the relationship between reading and socializing. Didn’t they read Dickens out loud around the fire?… Read more“Catching up with those illuminated manuscripts—I mean, ebooks”