How Language Shapes our World

Noam Chomsky is famous for his suggestion that language shapes the way we think. Put very simply, we have no concept of anything we can’t describe with words. He also believes there is a universal grammar that all humans instinctively adhere to. Although I...

What the Music Industry Reveals About Publishing

This post was written as a guest post for the wonderful Silver Threading blog. Be sure to check it out! The incumbents had spent decades building the perfect business model. Anyone who wanted their art to reach the world had to go through specialized agencies, who...

10 Inspiring Facts for Indie Authors

I found this wonderful post on Wise Ink Creative Publishing and am sharing. As always, there’s been some editing to add my thoughts, but you can read the original post on the Wise Ink’s website. 10 Inspiring Facts for Indie Authors If I had a dime for each...

Dos and Don’ts on Writing a Book Blurb

The inspiration for this post came from a little gem I found on the Passive Guy’s Newsletter (if you aren’t already a subscriber, what are you waiting for? It’s free!). After some heavy editing, it ended up as this post. The original post came from...

How to Increase Twitter Engagement and Followers

I found this little gem on Effrosyni Moschoudi’s blog, then traced it to its origins, on QuickSprout. If you feel overwhelmed by all this, Neil Patel, the infographic’s creator, has this to say in conclusion: “If you only have time to follow one...

Measuring Time, Author-Style

Now, please don’t get me wrong. I love helping out others, especially Indie authors. After all, I wouldn’t be here today had not some lovely people taken the time to help me out. However, I do suffer from a chronic shortage of time. This is partly because...

Brilliant Words You Didn’t Know You Needed

Continuing on the subject of words, you may have heard me say now and again how I marvel at the beauty and flexibility of the English language. So why aren’t these beauties found on BuzzFeed part of our everyday conversations already? Errorist (n) Someone who...

Any Ol’ Word Will Do

What’s in a word? “The constant interchange of design ideas between architects and clients; clients and their friends; architects and their peers is one of design’s most distinctive qualities, yet it is often neglected by researchers,” I read...

We are storytellers. Once again, with pride

What’s that well called? There once was a well, in the middle of a field. It was known, quite unimaginatively, as the well in the field. Then, one morning, the farmer who owned the field found a drowned body inside. Shocked, the nearby villagers changed the well’s...