I’ve mentioned before that I love song lyrics. I admire those writers so much because they can say so much vividly and succinctly. Occasionally, I post a video for a song that has really great lyrics. Right now, I am totally in love with this Big Sean song I heard on the radio a couple […]
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We’ve seen an entire month of Amazon’s new way of paying authors of books available on the site’s Kindle Unlimited (KU) subscription service. Now that I’ve seen it, I must admit I think authors who aren’t moving tons of content should check their dashboard minimal amounts. Why? Because it’s maddening. But before I explain why,
Happy Monday to you. It’s me, and I’m emerging from the writing cave for a blog post. Or perhaps, I should say, Live from the Writing Cave, it’s RJ Crayton’s blog post! (a la Saturday Night Live.) Regardless, I realized it’s been a while (May 31, yikes) since I’ve written a blog post, so I
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I had a real-life moment last week that morphed into a writing moment. I learned a great deal about what makes conflict real and what makes it work. If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ll know that I do the occasional self-publishing workshop at the local public libraries here. I have one coming up in
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The 50 Shades of Grey movie came out Valentine’s Day weekend, and in the week leading up to and following the opening of the movie there’s been a lot of talk about it. A lot of the talk has been about whether the book and film are good for women and glorify abuse or if
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Last year, the novelist Tess Gerritsen sued Warner Bros. for breach of contract for making the film Gravity, based on her novel. Gerritsen did not sue for copyright infringement, because she sold the film rights to her book to a New Line Cinema subsidiary called KATJA. New Line was purchased by Warner Bros., who later
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