A lot has been said in recent times in both self and conventional publishing circles with regard to hooking potential readers utilizing Twitter, Facebook and leading E-zines such as Angie’s Diary, plus Goodreads which, despite the fact that it was
How are you going to feel when you look back at the number of books given away when you check the following month's sales only to see one or two new ones?
Over recent weeks I have noticed some discourse on the topic of For The Love (FTL) markets in social media sites - particularly whether these markets are exploitative or not.
I am the reader I was writing for. There were stories I wanted to read and couldn't find, so I wrote them.
An absolute statement? No, not quite, but I think it might hold. Over the past week or so I have focused rather heavily on reviewing some stories that touched on the topic of whether story (A) was truly horror, or story (B) was 'dark enough' to be virtually horror. More specifically, there were some stories [...]
The best writing advice I ever received I read in an old book called The Practical Stylist by Sheridan Baker: “Clarity is the first aim; economy the second...
You know, one of these days I am going to take my courage in my hands and actually do the unthinkable again. Attempt to self-publish.
As some of you have heard, the novel An Adventure in Indianapolis is beginning a new phase of life. Perhaps I will give it another edit and call it The Double Life of Tutweiler Buckhead and re-submit it to the major publishing houses. I wrote to Amazon to tell them I want to take it down from there in [...]
Here are some responses from other authors about how their environment colors their writing. The comments are taken from interviews...
Which is more important, character or plot? Some people think character is most important, others think plot is the most important, but you really can’t separate the two.
