It may surprise you to know that I read. A lot. Not as much as I used to before I wrote full-time, but more than most people I know. I also love to talk books. But I have not blogged on them because the writer’s community is divided about whether being honest about someone else’s [...]
Nathan Bransford discusses the big publishing news that happened in the past week. What the steeply discounted bestsellers ($10 for new hard covers!) will mean to the pricing structure of books in every format (mass market paperback, trade paperback, and e-book) will take a few months to discover (especially, as Nathan observes, Amazon, WalMart, Target [...]
I ran across this humor on The Rejectionist.
While Cherie* and I don’t agree on every point, I do believe that forgetting who makes the bread and who churns the butter has become a problem in the publishing business. Reading her blog reminded me of something I heard an editor who has been around [...]
Talking about the great agent search, here’s a writer with a spin on something as old as publishing — who’s the boss, and how to view the “interview” process.
I think she has it just right — humor is the only way to deal with the insanity of this business. It has held writers in good [...]
The wood man just dumped three cords of seasoned wood in my side yard, to join the cord of very well seasoned wood already stacked in the back yard. The jumbled logs sit like a New England pyramid left in warning/celebration/acceptance that winter is coming. Normally, I would already have the wheelbarrow at work, moving [...]
When I first began to think about actually being published, umpteen years ago, I had been seriously writing for several years already (I’d written articles for my school newspaper, and had already taken two fiction writing classes in college). However, I didn’t know squat about getting published (this is not something college courses will teach [...]
I mentioned I was at a Novelist’s Inc. conference two weeks ago, but I hadn’t had time to discuss the great things I learned, relearned, and was reminded of again forcefully until now. Priorities. First comes catch up. Then comes look ahead and plan the next few weeks. And, finally, comes thinking about how to [...]
…and my office is more clean and organized than it has been in three years. I had my youngest son put shelves up in the mud porch (in New England, that’s the room between the front door and the actual house, where we store boots, snow shovels, coats, and just about anything else we can [...]
I’m finally caught up from the conference. Or, at least, caught up enough to take some time and write and schedule a few blogs. While at the conference, I explored and got confirmation on the hot new idea I had, and I’ve been busily immersing myself in the research. Yesterday, I wrote a few pages [...]
Joe Kornrath has been conducting an e-book experiment, using the reverted rights on his hardcover series, mixed in with a few new works. He’s made some interesting discoveries, and generously shared them. I can’t explain it better than Joe, so go read his blog.
What most impresses me, especially after the conversations swirling around the conference [...]
