It’s amazing what a little competition can do. I’ve never had a traditional publishing deal, but in the last ten months since I’ve started educating myself on how publishing works I’ve learned a thing or two about them. For decades, …
Even though I have no desire to get an agent, and frankly at this point see no benefit in getting one, I still will on occasion visit agents’ blogs to see what’s going on in their world. And why not? …
The comments on my guest post over at Derek J Canyon’s blog have gotten interesting in the last day or so. Not that they weren’t interesting before, mind you. But in the last day or two, the discussion has shifted …
I was up fairly late last night. On Sunday evening, I reread Delphinus. And I can totally see why I didn’t place in Writers of the Future. It was very clear that, in places, I’d rushed through it. So last …
Well, another month’s done, so it’s time to examine how it went. I’d say September was pretty good. I had a birthday, which is always fun. I got Masters published finally, which is great! Just a short while ago, I …
August has been a pretty good month. I didn’t get as many new words written as in July. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how many words I wrote, truth to tell. I don’t generally tally them up month …
Passive Guy linked yesterday to an appalling example of ignorant pessimism. Read it, if you have a strong stomach, and a strong tolerance for BS. I can’t fully express how idiotic this speech, or whatever it is, is. The guy goes …
The other day I wrote about my consternation over a thread on Kindleboards about whether or not an indie writer should use an agent to help negotiate the deal if publishers come knocking on the writer’s door. My thesis is …
So I went to KDP tonight to see how sales are going. The answer: pretty well, for my first real month of sales (I don’t count the months with just Damsel and Falling Softly because, well, I’m not…). Still, the …
Ok, I put this post under the category “douchebaggery”. Unfortunately, that douchebaggery applies to me this time. On Friday evening, I got into a bit of an argument over on the Kindleboards. The argument centered around whether a successful indie …