I was in a Facebook writing group the other day, and a writer there posted that he didn’t “condone” self publishing. I asked him to explain, and one thing he said was that there is a stigma to it. I’d heard that before, but it seems like it’s been ages since anyone has said anything like […]
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The news has been abuzz the past week or two over the Hachette/Amazon dispute. The two are negotiating a contract, and Amazon, in what some are calling heavy-handed moves that hurts authors and consumers, has stopped stocking as many Hachette books (so customers have to wait 2-3 weeks for books to ship); stopped discounting Hachette
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Today, I happen to have a blog post running today over on Indies Unlimited. It’s on how you can use Google Drive to help your writing. Next week, I’m the featured post in the Speculative Fiction Blog Hop. For those unfamiliar with the term, speculative fiction is the kind of fiction that speculates about something
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The interesting thing about writing dystopian fiction is when something in today’s headlines is similar to an issue faced in your novel. That happened this month when NPR ran a story about the ethics of doctors participating in executions. You’ll find both the audio and a transcript here. This issue related to the recent botched
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Last week, I gave a couple of the highlights of the publishing section of the Virginia Festival of the Book (which I attended in March). One of the sessions I attended, How to Succeed in the Author Business by Really Trying had two publicity experts there: Sharyn Rosenblum a vice president at Willliam Morrow who
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As writers, we’re often taught that comparisons are our friends. When we’re trying to describe something that’s a bit hard to grasp, we’ve been told that a comparison can be helpful. It’s done with numbers all the time. For example, a person might say that something required 700 tons of water, and as a comparison
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