All right, hold onto your hats, people. Things are about to get serious. (Not really. I just like to wind people up.) Last week I saw a blog post on self-publishing by Agent Janet Reid. As with every other time Janet talks about Self-Publishing, I disagreed totally with almost everything she said. I find Janet […]
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There is a question every author will be asked–oh so many times!–during their career. That question is: “How do you come up with your characters?” Its cousin is: “Are you going to put me in one of your books?” The answer to the second question is: “That depends. Are you an awful person/have you been
Isabella Farrah (and other parts of me) Read More »
I’ve always been under the impression that I’ve not got the talent for cover-making. Hey, for all I know, that impression is the correct one. But I came across a handy-dandy guide on Joanna Penn’s blog, in which a process for making covers through Microsoft Word was explained and shown. So I thought, ‘Well, why
Cover Art and Competence Read More »
Okay. So I broke that resolution already. But it’s not all bad! I’m gonna keep the others on the list! Er. Well. I’m going to try. So what’s going on for me in the new year? So, so much. In terms of resolutions, I’ve made a new daily wordcount goal: 2000 wpd instead of 1000 wpd. If NaNoWriMo
Resolved…Not To Make New Year Resolutions Read More »
It’s a funny thing, this self-publishing business. You start out with reasonably realistic expectations–‘I’ll probably only sell a book per month at first’, and ‘It’ll take a long time to build that email list’–and you put your head down and work at the thing. You sell your book-per-month, and you feel grateful. You’re excited that there’s someone
Gratitude And The Self-Publisher Read More »
I’m going to be unusually prolific with my blog posts this week. Sorrynotsorry. One of the reasons for this is the end of NaNoWriMo (my first NaNoWriMo, from which I emerge a glorious winner!) and what feels like an excess of free time. Another reason is my novella sale that’s coming up, and about which
Challenge Accepted… Read More »
There’s a really horrible part of writing. It’s that part, about halfway through–or even 3/4 of the way through, or right at the end–when you’re convinced that everything you write is utter drivel and it feels like there’s no saving it. The plot is hopelessly holey, the dialogue is trite and stiff, and the surrounding
What A Glorious Feeling! Read More »
It’s NaNoWriMo (as if you haven’t already figured that out). And this being not only week two, but the first day of my week off from work, I’m at a little over 4000 words for the day of a proposed 6000. So, no real blog post for you guys this week, except to share the
Shhhhh! Be Vewwy, Vewwy Quiet! It’s NaNoWriMo! Read More »
If there’s anything a writer understands, it’s another writer’s search for reviews. We need them. We need them to propel sales, we need them to garner interest around the book blogosphere, and if we ever hope to enter the hallowed halls of Bookbub-advertised authors, they are indispensable. That being so, when someone suggested that I
Adventures In Reviewing: To Review Or Not To Review…. Read More »
I must be crazy. I did it. I actually signed up. I was gonna DO it, of course; just from the comfort of my own computer and no tallies and accountability and stuff. I wasn’t going to bother with making it official. Then I got excited and sort of accidentally signed up. I’m talking about
NaNOOOOOOOOO! Why did I do it?!? Read More »
