J. Scott Coatsworth: Writing is Hard

Author J. Scott Coatsworth recently shared on his blog a post titled Writing is Hard, which struck a chord with me. I’m sharing here a lightly edited version of his original post (with his permission, of course) and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did 🙂 Writing...

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...

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...

4 Simple Self-publishing tips

I’m starting today a weekend special on self-publishing, with four simple tips that can help you succeed. When I self-published my first book, I was confident that I could easily put it forward, based on my professional career as web developer and marketeer.  I...