What a Publisher Cannot Do For You

Sarah Zama recently commented on My Two Top Tips to an Aspiring Writer, offering her point of view on what a publisher cannot realistically be expected to do. I thought her comment was so interesting, that I asked her for a guest post. Happily, she obliged. Enjoy!...

A Perfect Blurb

As I’ve been agonizing over blurbs lately, with the launch of Infinite Waters, I noticed with great interest a book by my friend, Celine Jeanjean. I consider it a great example of blurb and bio, so I thought I’d share with you. Besides, how could I not...

British English Translated

As you may remember, I spent many of my formative years in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. One of the first things I realized upon arriving to that fair city was that speaking English for years in Greece had not prepared me for the thrill of actually communicating with the...

Promoting your Series: Free vs. 99c

I was reading Tara Sparling’s interesting post on free books, where she complains about authors pricing their books too low. Amazon agrees with her. I believe that’s why they only start offering 70% royalties for books priced at $2.99 and above (under that,...

Free Story: The Things We Do For Lust

*** Read Infinite Waters for free on Kindle Unlimited *** “The Things We Do For Lust” is a story from Infinite Waters, a collection of ten speculative fiction short stories and flash fiction. You can read it below for free. Enjoy! The Things We Do For Lust...

Nat Russo Giveaway

I just found out that one of my favorite authors, Nat Russo, is giving away today both of his excellent fantasy books, Necromancer Awakening and The Road to Dar Rodon. Here’s a great opportunity to enjoy two of the best fantasy books I’ve read in a while....

Flame Wars

I used the expression Flame Wars with a friend, and she confessed to be unfamiliar with the term. As a service to my friends, here is the definition: An argument between Internet users who repeatedly provoke each other with personal attacks through e-mail, comments,...

Why Creative People Are Safe from Robots

Rise of the Machines Jobs board Monster.com ran an online poll recently, asking people how threatened they feel by robots. Namely, how likely they find it that a robot will be doing their work in a few years’ time. Most people are in “robot overlord denial,” it...