S.L. Armstrong's Blog, page 37

More Audio Book Fun

I planned a blog entry today on virginity. I'll still write it, but I just never got around to it. Today was spent, instead, working more on the audio book for The Keeper. My, is this going to be an experience. *laughs* Not a bad one, as both David and Jeffrey (the owners I've dealt [...:]

Book Review: "Lone" by Rowan McBride

Author: Rowan McBride Pages: 174 Synopsis: Professor Seth Anderson has finally found sanctuary in Brier, Iowa. Even better, he's found Raphael 'Rafe' Dirisio, a strong, giant of a man who owns the town pool hall, and Seth has never felt so comfortable, safe, or close to anyone. When Seth is asked to give a series [...:]

Audio and Tours and Artists, Oh My!

After reading Kait Nolan's post yesterday about the company Perfect Voices, I felt secure saying I thought it a way to rip off authors with low budgets who really want to see their work in audio. I still feel it's a bit of a monetary sinkhole, but I've decided we'll give it a try. I've [...:]

Not Enough Time On My Hands

Time is a fickle thing, isn't it? It always seems like I have an abundance of it, until deadlines approach, and then it feels like I'll never catch up. Because I'm not only self-publishing, but also publishing anthologies with other authors, it means I'm juggling a lot of hats. Luckily, I'm not alone in it. [...:]

Self-Publishing Misconceptions – Part Three

This is the final installments. I apologize for the lateness. Yesterday was a hellish day, and I was in bed, asleep, by 7:30pm. Traditional publishers market books. You might say I have no right to speak about this because I've never been published, but I'm not an idiot and did do research before I chose [...:]

Self-Publishing Misconceptions – Part One

This was originally a single post, but by the time I was through writing it in OpenOffice, it was 8 pages and over 4,000 words long. That's an awful lot of information I'm asking you to take in at once, and so I've broken the post up into three parts. I'm posting the first part [...:]

Self-Publishing Misconceptions – Part Two

Continued from yesterday's post, these misconceptions tend to be about self-published books themselves. No self-published book is "good enough" to be traditionally published. As has been stated on many occasions by many agents and editors, many books are turned away because they can't be sold, not because they aren't good enough to be published. So [...:]

The Craft of Writing II: Adverbs and Adjectives

The Craft of Writing II: Adverbs and Adjectives (or Brown Fox Jumps Quickly Over the Lazy Dog) Adverbs and adjectives are extremely important aspects of good descriptive writing. It's how we, as the reader, know what things look like, how they smell, where they're going, and how they're getting there. I disagree with the current [...:]

Self-Publishing Misconception – Part One

This was originally a single post, but by the time I was through writing it in OpenOffice, it was 8 pages and over 4,000 words long. That's an awful lot of information I'm asking you to take in at once, and so I've broken the post up into three parts. I'm posting the first part [...:]

Hey Everybody It's Music Time

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~ Truman Capote I want to talk about music this morning. Music and writing. Oftentimes, I need silence to write. I tend to have the television on, but muted, and no music playing. When I have [...:]