What a great weekend. Debbie and I did our publishing workshop with a terrific group of writers and on Sunday I met with my cousin and his wife to discuss fun projects. And today, Monday, I’ve heard from my agent that the rewrite I submitted last week is off to the editor and long-lost students […]
Please welcome my friend, Kayla Dawn Thomas to the blog today. She is the author of Swept Up, and the newly released (today!) Narrow Miss. I love her thoughts on publishing the second time around and I know you will, too! One Would Think by Kayla Dawn Thomas One would think that by […]
I've been writing so much about Amazon and indie publishing lately that I figured I better try it out myself. And so I have. As of last Wednesday, my first indie project, a short story, is for sale on Amazon for 99 cents. Blue Sky: A Nell Malone Story Here's the blurb (which I will […]
The first part of this post, Amazon for Authors, Part One: Opportunities, ran last Monday. You can read that here, and you probably want to do that before proceeding. Ever since I wrote part one of this post, I've been obsessed with worry that I'm misrepresenting Amazon. As in, presenting this rosy view of everything […]
In my previous blog post on my time at AWP, I promised an article on how you, as an author, can utilize some of the many services Amazon offers. So here it is. First, let's get clear on a couple of things: 1. I am by no means an expert on this topic. Many others, who […]
Okay, it's not exactly everything, but it's a lot about what I learned in the process of getting Emma Jean out into the world. And it is–you guessed it–another interview. This one is over at Patrick Ross's blog, the Artist's Road. I feel a bit smug about Patrick because I was one of the first […]
Yesterday I wrote a post about my adventures in Nashville. Today, I'm writing about what you really want to know more on, some of the writing activities I partook of. Wait, that's a poorly constructed sentence, with that dangling participle. Today, I'm writing about the writing activities about which you want to learn more. Technically […]
The advanced proof of my novel! So, as most of you know, my novel, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior, debuts on February 12th. The road to getting published was long. Veeeeerrrrry long. And I learned a few things along the way, like what it takes to get a book out into the world. So […]
