Randy Ingermanson, a physicist and novelist, has a great discussion about branding for writers going on over at Advanced Fiction Writing. He has a series of posts on branding, and he’s answering a lot of questions raised by his readers. Randy is a successful author – I love his City of God series. However, he has … Read more
Readers can find books from major publishers fairly easy. It may be hard to sort through all the available titles, but the books are carried in bookstores. However, finding books published by the authors or small publishers is more of a challenge. You can’t walk into most bookstores and find independently published books. These books … Read more
Liz Strauss at Successful-Blog started a group writing project: What’s Your Blogging Metaphor? A number of great posts have already been submitted. My favorite is How Do You Explain Blogging to Your Mom? by Char at Essential Keystrokes. To me, blogging is a large city filled with hundreds of small neighborhoods. When you first start to … Read more
Not very long ago, so it seems, I thought anyone forty years old was ancient. All of sudden, I’m way past forty years old – my husband and I have been married for forty years…today. Jack and I met when I got a summer job during college in the same office at Kelly Air Force … Read more
Maybe you’re an employee or a freelance writer assigned to write a company policy manual. Your employer says, “This is so confusing I don’t understand my own policies!” Or you’re a multi-published author with a new book out. A major reviewer writes, “Don’t waste your money or your time on this disappointing effort.” Or you’re … Read more
In National Stroke Awareness Month: My Stroke – the Aftermath, I briefly described the neurological problems I’ve had for several years, presumably as a result of the stroke I had a few years before. This week, I have had several episodes with different and more severe symptoms that concerned me. During one such episode on … Read more
I didn’t know until I read on Writing Thoughts that most blog platforms have a built-in “no follow” code for comments. That means that if you make a comment, the search engines don’t follow that link and give you credit for an incoming link. This was designed to prevent links in spam comments being followed … Read more
Michael Hyatt has a post How Do You Balance Work with the Rest of Your Life? This is a question many of us struggle with. We want to do it all and have it all. But Mike wisely reminds us that we can’t do it all, so we have to set priorities. He gives his … Read more
Read an E-book Week is March 4 – 10, 2007. The week is designed to celebrate e-books and to educate the public about them. If you’ve read this blog for any time at all, you probably know I’m a big advocate of e-books. My novel Stroke of Luck is published as an e-book, and I’ve been … Read more
Grace Anne Schaefer’s next book, As Shadows Fall: People of the Frozen Earth Book Two, is scheduled for release in January 2007. Book One: The New Day Dawns has created a bunch of ardent fans eagerly awaiting the sequel. It has also received excellent reviews, the latest a 5-Angel review from Fallen Angel Reviews. Having read As … Read more