Marketing: how much effort does this technique take; how durable is the effect of the technique; what is the impact of the technique? Three axes for a graph: effort, durability, impact. A book review is high effort, high durability, high impact. A single tweet is low effort, low durability, low impact. A well-coordinated social media
I’m used to defining the story of a life. Not with each character I create, but with each book. There’s one main character; the entire book becomes a kind of exoskeleton for the character within. The other characters are reactions, motifs, variations, opinions–all of them filtered and refiltered through the main character’s perspective. If I
This morning was a pretty serious anxiety attack (for me; I didn’t have to go to the hospital or anything). I got to the point where I could journal, then started working away at the knot of it, pulling out one thread at a time. Now, I’m still anxious–but I’m not locked up and frozen.
I’ve been working with some people (Shannon Lawrence, Veronica Calisto, Pete Aldin, and Melissa Locy) to put together a panel on plot twists for Denver ComicCon, at the end of June. My line in the sand: if it’s gonna be an epic, major, unforgettable plot twist…you have to give the reader a key to it
Having a busy, hyperactive mind often shows up in my journaling as a hint that there’s something big on my mind behind all the rest of the stuff. When I can’t finish a sentence–when I not only can’t finish a sentence but have to start midway through the next sentence–when I’m writing so quickly that
Note: I’m a GenX-er. So I got the following spam the other day: I WILL REPORT YOU. YOU PIECE OF SHIT… Hey, Stop stalking me and my friend or I will report you. You piece of shit, cock-sucker douche. I do not know why you are doing this! You slept together once, only once. It
I have a new interview up at Blackbird Publishing, in support of the Haunted story bundle. I interview Rebecca Senese, author of “The Haunting of Melsbury Manor,” a twisty tale of family and ghosts that I really liked. You can find links to the bundle here.
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So I tried to do some DIY plumbing the other day. It didn’t work out the way I hoped: easy, simple, straightforward. Just like in the YouTube videos. Instead I found myself having a breakdown. Tears, self-recriminations, the whole bit. I was a terrible person who never should have tried. (I’m 43.) And the only
I did a review and interview of Jeremy Hepler for his horror-thriller novel, The Boulevard Monster, for Ginger Nuts of Horror. I liked and recommend it if that’s your thing. Review Interview I KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT ME You say that I am a madman. You say that I am dangerous. You say that I
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Because it’s me, I keep trying to figure out how to systematize some kind of approach to book marketing. I’ve been working a lot on various things with greater or lesser success, and I worked out a general idea of what marketing is and does; click here for more explanation. But that’s kind of complex,
