Mar 3, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Interviews Features and Reviews, My Publications
My current Work In Progress, Mad Water, was featured today in MMJaye’s blog. She interviewed me, and even asked me to send her a photo of my workspace. Mind you, I don’t normally prattle around the place dressed up like that, but I had just come back from...
Mar 3, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Marketing
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is writing a series of posts on Social Media and how to use them. With so much advice on the subject, she wrote this week a great tip that somehow resonated with me: just have fun! Participating in social media is truly not required. Remember...
Mar 1, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Publishing
Rachel Thompson recently published a great post where she bares her soul wallet to reveal what she makes from sales of her three books. Since a popular myth is that all one needs to do is write a decent book to spend the rest of her life between Oprah’s couch and a...
Feb 28, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Marketing
My good friend Rivka Kawano has been a tremendous help to me, offering generous amounts of her scarce time to aid my book promotions with her helpful advice. Always willing to share her tremendous social media skills, she has now posted the definitive guide on social...
Feb 28, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Publishing
Author Beverley Kendall conducted in January 2014 a comprehensive survey to find out just what the situation is like in regards to Indie authors. Her results included three main takeaways: Self-publishing definitely isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. It requires hard...
Feb 27, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Marketing, Random Musings
Mattan Griffel wrote a great article, pretty much redefining email etiquette for our busy times. In a nutshell, his five rules are: Keep it short Format for readability and clarity Make it clear what you want me to do Be reasonable with your request Show me why I...
Feb 26, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Marketing
You’ve written your book, checked out this great article on BookBaby to make sure you’re all set to publish, and uploaded it on KDP, Smashworld, Barnes & Nobles etc. So, you sit back and think that the worst is behind you. It’s not. For now, you...
Feb 26, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Writing
What are readers looking for in a book? I was reading a BookBaby post, that detailed what award judges are looking for in a book, when it struck me: isn’t this exactly what readers are looking for in a book, too? The five most important characteristics mentioned...
Feb 25, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs
A tongue-in-cheek article on the Guardian by Dean Burnett. He makes a good point; so many people have dreamed of going back in time to kill Hitler, that it could serve as definite proof that a time machine is impossible to make (or Hitler would be surrounded at all...
Feb 25, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Publishing
Hugh Howey is spearheading a campaign to change the rules of publishing. As an Indie publisher myself, it goes without saying that I support him. What are the real data behind all this, though? First of all, let’s examine what exactly people are reading.Now,...
