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Category Archives: Business
DaNoWriMo
So, November is always National Novel Writing Month. The standing challenge to writers is to write a novel during November. With the best of intentions, I have never actually done it. That’s because I have contracts and editors now, as … Continue reading
Autocorrect
I’m usually amused when Autocorrect mangles my perfectly intelligible text into something I didn’t intend. It’s funny, mostly. But now Autocorrect (as embodied in Amazon’s search algorithms) is giving me heartburn. Here’s the issue: my novel WITCHY EYE is coming … Continue reading
How Can I Help My Author Friend?
A skeletal and non-exhaustive list, offered with no comment. You can: Buy her book. Buy more copies, and give them as gifts. Share on social media that you’ve bought the book. Reshare your friend’s announcements about the book. Reshare great … Continue reading
Velocity
I’m in several segments of this publishing industry, now: self-publishing, indie-publishing, and, releases imminent, big-press-publishing. The segments work differently in many ways, one of which is speed. Let’s set aside the middle ground for this brief discussion and focus on … Continue reading
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Tagged Knopf, The Extraordinary Journeys of Clockwork Charlie, The Kidnap Plot
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Overrated
I want to be overrated. This thought comes out of a weekend post on social media, in which a writer asked what books of the last thirty years other people had found to be the most overrated. It’s a fair … Continue reading
Posted in Business, How to Write
Tagged Bestsellers, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King
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Mission and Vision
A writer is a business owner and should act like one. With the recent growth of my team (the addition of Daniel Braithwaite in publicity), I took the opportunity to think about the core purpose of my business. That thinking … Continue reading
It’s Not a Job
One piece of wisdom I’ve heard at many writing conferences goes something like this: “Writing is a job. You have to treat it like a job to be successful.” But that’s wrong. Writing is not a job. A job means … Continue reading
Two Mes
Here’s me, at Life, the Universe and Everything in February. There is a professionalism point here — when you are selling yourself as a professional writer, don’t go to business events dressed like a goombah or a slacker. And here … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business
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CONduit Report: Self-Promotion Addendum
I attended a panel at CONduit (mostly, I didn’t actually go to the panels — that wasn’t what I was there for, but I went to one or two) on self-promotion. It featured such fine writers as Larry Correia and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Conventions
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