Okay, here are a couple of movies I Irrationally Have No Interest in seeing: Tangled. Thor. There’s so much hype for both, that I had to stop to think what it was that turned me off. It may not have anything to do with the movie; I think it’s the marketing. With Tangled, all I […]
Another writing post. This is not because interesting, non-writing things don’t happen to me. For instance, Ray was giving me The Teenager Look this morning. She’s nine. That was pretty interesting. No, it’s because I made a major shift in my writer-mentality, and I’m still trying to work it out. This morning, I felt like
Disclaimer: Mark gave me a free registration for Storybox in exchange for promoting the software. However, 1) you can try it for free as long as you like and 2) I was going to talk it up anyway. One of the guys that I met out at the marketing workshop a few weeks ago, Mark
Wow. I just feel completely dried up as far as blog posts go. So, rather than write no blog post, I’ll just write a lame blog post! A braggy post to build myself up. It feels @#$%^&* weird. The last six months have been a transition from “writer” to “pro writer,” which is something that,
I just finished doing another Lulu gift book, so I better post this before I forget how to do it (again). Same caveats as in the first post: If you privately create on Lulu (using the private only option), it does not affect your first publishing rights; you have NOT made the book public. If
I have to get materials to the PPWC committee by the 13th, so I better finish this up pronto. I had intended to include how to submit to other types of markets than short story markets, but I am OUT OF TIME. I had no idea that writing about short story submissions was going to
I asked whether there was a word for reading the bad reviews of a book you really liked, then sniggering at the reviewers, because they missed the point of the book. I love doing that. In fact, I’ll read a book just because it has idiotic bad reviews. Mo responded with the perfect word for
This has been a week of NO NEW FICTION WRITING. I have been on the LEARNING CURVE instead, and it’s been painful. Not as painful as some have had to go through–the benefit of being only a post-semi-early adopter–but still. At any rate, I have two new stories up from Wonderland Press. One (Bunny Attack!)
Since the last time I posted in this series, I jumped into ebook publishing (which I said in the last post that I wasn’t sure I was ready for). Things are changing so fast in publishing right now, I don’t know how to keep up. But anyhoo, ebooks are beyond the scope of this series,
How to Fail, Part 9: Mailing, Rejections, Acceptances. Read More »
So yesterday I started a small press, Wonderland Press. In the age of e-publishing, this is fairly easy to do, although my head is spinning with the worry that I’m forgetting something, or that what I do with it will be less than optimal. I keep finding reasons to get up and run off…like just
