Why you won’t see some of the best books in bookstores.
The issues stopping “indie” or self-published authors from being stocked in bookstores is the deadly combination of returnability of and pricing. I can't explain it as well as Linda Nagata does in this thoughtful piece on her blog, Hahvi.net where she...What some people do when they’re moved by your book.
I posted a blog on the Debatable Value of Twitter a year or so ago, when I was still a noob with all this social media jazz. I am since a convert to Twitter as the single best outreach tool a writer has, and Sonia Rumzi is another writer and creative individual I...Unleashing creativity begins with a timeline of your past.
Now that you have your Book of Secrets started, the main and first task to begin is the personal timeline. It’s a plumbline, really, a way to see when and how big decisions were made about your life—by yourself, and by others. Patterns emerge. Trends. Epiphanies. It’s...Creativity unleashed: begin in 2012
My first novel, Blood Orchids, debuted in December. This has been a lifelong dream, and a process on a thousand different levels. It's also caused a bit of an upheaval in my personal and professional life as I resolve issues of being a therapist in private and public...The making of a bestselling cover: step one, photography.
Okay, maybe it's not bestselling yet. Or even out yet. But I'm a positive thinker, and things are well underway for my sequel Torch Ginger's launch in March. I'm married to a professional photographer, Renaissance Man, and he took the orchid photos that were used by...Follow me and receive an email
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