Note: Forgive me, I have checked and rechecked my math, but I made so many errors the first time through that I can’t be sure I’ve caught them all. Sheesh. All right. This is another tense topic for me, because I suspect I’ve been doing something that makes me happy in the short term but […]
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If you’re interested, the handout I passed out at the January Write Brain is over at the Pikes Peak Writers Blog. It’s “Roadmap to Indie Publishing,” and can help you grasp what kinds of things you need to consider for indie publishing, from a practical standpoint, like where to get info on setting up a
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I woke up this morning and felt like an utter and complete idiot…about nothing and everything. “Hello, my name is DeAnna, and today I feel like a loser.” “Hi, loser.” ***Dave explained what I was really doing wrong, though: “I think it was the cursed tiki idol you took from that cave. Maybe you just
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I went to a lovely 12th-night party this weekend at some friends’ house where we exchanged Christmas gifts, and the person who drew me (Dave Newman!) gifted me with a bunch of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-themed books, one of which is Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser. The first essay was a feminist
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When you write a story, how much should you sell it for? Whatever the market will bear, right? It’s a capitalistic society, so we can make a ton of money! Huzzah! Well, it turns out that a lot of writers (including me) will sell a story for whatever the market will give us, not what
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The Editing for Indie Writers series continues… Chapter 1: Roadmap from First Draft to Final Product So you have a manuscript that you want to indie publish, and you have no idea where to start. You’ve heard all kinds of things about how terrible indie writers are at editing, from how book bloggers refuse to
Note: Preorder at Amazon, B&N, or most bookstores. Available February 28, 2012. Disclaimer: I begged Julie for an advance copy, which she sent to me. It’s pumpkin orange. Okay, think of the books that you quote. Not books of literature, but the ones where you grab nearby passers-by and say, “Wait, wait, listen to this!”
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Signs…or habits? Sometimes when I talk to new writers, they say certain things that make me think, “this person isn’t getting published anytime soon.” Sad to say, but you can usually pick this up within a few minutes of conversation. So here’s my personal top-ten list of things that wannabe writers say that are red
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So you’d like to edit your own ebooks and POD books? Great! Please follow me to the torture chamber! Just kidding…mostly. Most writers don’t like to edit. And they have no idea how to edit, so the idea of editing causes them fits. “But wait,” you say, “I like to edit.” More than likely if you’re
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I get my ideas from my story muscle. Grrrah! Almost everyone has one. They start really forming when you get object permanence: during a baby’s first games of peek-a-boo. Maybe earlier. But definitely by then. The toy was gone! What happened to it? This is a story. Beginning: there was a toy, and it went
