11 Resources to Make Editing Your Novel Easier

As if learning the craft of writing a novel isn’t difficult enough, after it’s finished you’ll need to edit it. If you’re going to be traditionally published, you’ll probably work with an editing staff to make your work marketable. But before it gets to that point, you have to get it past the slush pile [...]

Read Full Post »

3 Rules For Writing A Good Book Review

I blame academia for my inability to fully enjoy movies, television shows and books. Okay, so earning my BA in English isn’t the only reason I find it difficult to enjoy those things. A lot of it has to do with being an Independent Author and valuing well-written stories over flash. I cannot sit down [...]

Read Full Post »

Ebook Buyers: Can You Afford To Lose Them?

I recently read a guest post by Chris Keys, author of The Fishing Trip – A Ghost Story and Reprisal!: The Eagle Rises!, about the difficulties of selling self-published books.  According to Chris, he’s only sold about a dozen books.  It seems typical of independent authors, but here’s the catch: I looked for Chris’ book [...]

Read Full Post »

Painful DRMs And Ebook Pricing

I am not an early adopter. I love gadgets, but I like to wait until most of the bugs have been worked out. Then I wait a little longer until I’m sure it’s a tool I’m really going to use and not a toy I’ll toss aside in a couple of months. So I was [...]

Read Full Post »

7 Links That Will Make Editing Your Work Easier

As I work my way through Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, I decided to take on his earlier challenge to write a post with seven links. Since this post was originally going to be about critiquing or editing, I went with seven links on that subject. Without further ado, here they [...]

Read Full Post »

Hooray For Writing!!

For those of you out there who love to write, but suffer from migraines that get in the way, I have a possible solution (provided the headache was stress related to begin with). I’ve just come off a two and 1/2 day headache and discovered that my love of writing (and drinking several Cokes) can ease [...]

Read Full Post »