July 2011

Now on Sale at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon, and OmniLit. Feed your fear of snail mail by using coupon code SC54Q at Smashwords… Things You Don’t Want But Have to Take by DeAnna Knippling She hid from the thing for years, but it found her and came to her in a box with no real return address […]

Kris and Dean have good articles up on priorities recently… Kris:  On Popcorn Kittens. Dean:  Priorities in this Brave New World. What is the #1 thing that an indie writer should do?  WRITE. What have I been putting last on my list for the last two weeks?  WRITING. I have a stack of publishing things

I should have written this earlier, but sometimes you don’t always know what you need to write before you write it… So-Called Objectivity Looking through what other editors look for when editing…I’m going to be leaving out a lot of things that a “real” editor would check for, like awkward dialogue, using too much backstory,

“Lewis Carroll does Inception. Lots of fun dreams-within-dreams stuff that’s full of more than enchantment than frightening suspense. And a must for cat lovers.” – Fiero Publishing/Terry Hayman. I think I’m going to use that first line as a blurb….  

“Lewis Carroll does Inception. Lots of fun dreams-within-dreams stuff that’s full of more than enchantment than frightening suspense. And a must for cat lovers.” – Fiero Publishing/Terry Hayman. I think I’m going to use that first line as a blurb….

I wandered down some weird mental roads while on my various road trips lately.  Wyoming and backroads South Dakota tend to do that to me. For the last year or so, I’ve been working to lessen the presence of anger in my life, because it makes me uncomfortable.  I feel like there are better things

Is your local indy bookstore a good one or not? How do you know? I went to two bookstores over the weekend, while I was on the road, that ended up clarifying this for me.  I’ve seen the same types of things at other bookstores, both bad and good, but this trip solidified things for

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and OmniLit. This weekend, follow the Jennings brothers into Hell…using Smashwords code YK23B. Chance Damnation A Tale of the Weird West by DeAnna Knippling One little girl.  Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes.  Aloysius’s little brother Jerome goes missing with

Any sufficiently developed idea related to information theory that a writer may have for a story will lead to the Stephenson Conclusion, that is, “Neal Stephenson already wrote it.” I’m reading The Information by James Gleick.  It does not list Stephenson in the index, despite being so far a lengthy, step-by-step rehash of his books.

The saga continues…the theme of the day seems to be, “Point it out but don’t necessarily edit it to death.” Tense I’m not going to go into the fine art of selecting tenses much here; my goal is not to be a book on perfecting your style and grammar, but how to edit.  However, I