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A Different Way Of Outlining

Recently I’ve been writing a full length movie script, and I came across a way of outlining for films that translates well into outlining for a novel. It won’t work for everyone, but if you’re having trouble crafting your outline ahead of time then this is a different way to prod your brain with a [...]

An Interview With Zoe Winters

Andrew: How did you get started in self publishing?      ZW: I looked around me and saw so many authors who weren’t getting their contracts renewed. It felt like I needed a platform first in order to have a solid chance at a career. I didn’t want to “get published”. I wanted to have [...]

Review of Zoe Winter’s badass writing book, Smart Self Publishing: Becoming an Indie Author.

  It’s much harder to review something that’s excellent than something that’s terrible.  Generally the better the book the longer it takes to write the review*.   It took me three weeks, two read throughs and an interview (which will be up tomorrow) with Zoe before I managed to write this review for Smart Self Publishing. [...]

Required Reading: Ten Sites Every Writer Should Visit

I Should Be Writing   The first writing podcast I ever listened to is not only as good as it ever was then, it’s even better now. Mur Lafferty approaches ISBW with honesty and good humor. This isn’t a techniques podcast/website (although they get mentioned), what Mur excels at is discussing the emotional side of [...]

Keeping Your Promises To Readers

***NB I originally came across this concept on the excellent Podcast Writing Excuses. This is my take on the same concept.   I remember going to see Hancock awhile back. It was an OK movie all things told, but I left the theatre a bitter human being.   Not because Hancock was bad, it wasn’t. [...]

Legacy Publishing vs Self-Publishing: Can You Do Both?

Can you be a self-published author and a published author?   I sure hope so…because this is the path I’ve decided on. Before I get into this though,  I have to admit I was wrong about something.   You see I’ve been following Joe Konrath’s blog for awhile, I’m a fan of his Jack Daniel’s [...]

More on Robin Sullivan of Ridan Publishing

Hi everyone, I’m beavering away here on my book so I can’t post today, but I’ve had a huge amount of interest from people wanting to know more about Robin Sullivan from Ridan Publishing. If you’d like to know more about Ridan there’s a link just above my blogthat you can click on. As to [...]

An EPIC interview with Robin Sullivan of Ridan Publishing

***UPDATED WITH WINNER*** Congratulations to VDGriesdoorn, I’ll let Robin know that you won and I’ll get them to send the signed copy of The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J Sullivan out to you as soon as possible.   Thanks to everyone who commented. I’ll be doing a follow up interview with Robin in two weeks time.   [...]

Why Going Without An Advance Might Be A Good Thing

It’s becoming more common to see authors being represented by e publishers and indie presses who aren’t getting advances. It’s by no means the norm, but it’s a growing movement.   Initially a lot of my writing buddies reacted with the kind of horror normally reserved for finding a decomposing corpse at the foot of [...]

An Outsider’s Look At Publishing, As Of June 2011

While I would love to say I’m an insider, I’m very much on the outside of publishing looking in. If it was colder my nose would be frozen to the window.   There’s a lot going on in publishing right now, but that statement has been true for at least the last ten years. E-books [...]

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