Win A Copy Of Irregular Creatures by Chuck Wendig *UPDATED WITH WINNERS*
** Thanks to everyone who entered, I enjoyed your stories of the weird immensely. The winners are… Arturo J Gomez! and Victoria! Congratulations both, a copy of Irregular Creatures is on its way to your email addresses as soon as I can make it work. To everyone else who entered. I’m sorry I can’t give [...]
The Odds. Beat Them. Part Two
Yesterday I looked at improving the odds of getting yourself published, today I want to look at the ways an author can improve their odds of making real money from their writing. What We Can Learn From Web Cartoonists Web comics changed the world. If you think traditional publishing is in turmoil you should see [...]
Permission to write?
This post was inspired by Mur Lafferty of I Should be Writing. In her most recent podcast she pointed out that one of the greatest gifts a writer can be given is time, space and encouragement to write. She isn’t wrong (Mur is rarely wrong), often in our lives we have ten million other pressures [...]
Self Publishing? Part three: Huge support networks
Right, back to self publishing. There is really only one remaining set of people that can really look at self publishing, and that’s those people lucky enough to have a support network of marketers, advertisers (not the same thing), designers, web gurus and super ninjas. Note I said support network, not hired help. The ONLY [...]
We interupt this rant for a review. “The Handbook of the Writer Secret Society”
I’ve just done another review, this time of the excellent “The Handbook of the Writer Secret Society” from Peevish Penman Press. Normally I just link to he reviews page, but today I’m going to post the review right here on the front page, because I’d like to give away a copy of the The Handbook [...]
Self publishing? Part two: Niches and Built In Audiences
Yesterday I talked about polymaths and the ways these mega talented individuals can get around some of the pitfalls of self publishing. Today I wanted to look at the people who are lucky enough to have a niche audience that follows their work. This works better for non fiction than it does for fiction. Non [...]
Self Publishing? Part One: Polymaths
I know, this is a bit of a sore topic for writers everywhere. Why go through the pain of writing, editing, querying, negotiating and promoting when you can just self publish and your book will be right there, ready to read within a few weeks (or hours)? I’ve helped people got through the self publishing [...]
A review of Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane and an update
First off, I’ve at long last written another review (and I’ve got another one coming today). You can check out my thoughts on Stacia Kane’s Unholy Ghost here. I’d almost like to say I’ve been being slack, but I’ve actually been working my tail off writing my current work in progress. This one’s actually going [...]
An Interesting Website
I just found a strength training website www.stronglifts.com and funnily enough there’s a lot in there that applys to writing. If you’re interested in weight training, it’s a great read, and if you want to take it up it’s got a really interesting, safe, way to start lifting tin called 5×5* But…of course this isn’t [...]
In Defense of Neil’s Journal
So it’s no secret I’m a big fan of Neil Gaiman’s. I’m not his greatest fan (who’s quite possibly gibbering in a padded cell somewhere) – I don’t think I even rank among Neil’s top twenty thousand fans. I just love his work, and consequently I love following his online journal, which you can read [...]
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