Sharon Delarose's Blog, page 25
November 2, 2011
The Dumbing of America
Like most Indie writers, I have a day job. Yesterday the schools were closed for a holiday so the boss brought her daughter and friend to work for the day. These two girls were fourteenish and I was put in charge of helping them print their homework out on the computer.
The friend sat across from me and spent a couple hours working diligently on her homework assignment. When she was finished with her homework I printed it out for her.
I noticed immediately that there was a spelling error so...
October 12, 2011
Big Hairy Spider
September 28, 2011
Robber Fly Cannibal
September 22, 2011
Stung by a Saddleback Caterpillar
September 11, 2011
Root Canal Horror Story
September 10, 2011
Dog Eats Pine Cones
July 14, 2011
Neck-to-Neck with The Art of Racing in the Rain
I discovered that Bad Dog to Best Friend had a new rating on Goodreads and the rating, which did not include any comments, floored me. This girl had given the book two stars. While many readers don't rate books, they simply read them, I've had some very positive feedback from a number of folks privately so I was not expecting two stars.
In looking at her overall rating which covered 381 books, her average rating was 2.9 stars which meant that she didn't like much of what she read. Still...
September 8, 2010
The Book That Got Me Banned From Photobucket
It's hard being an indie author and pounding the pavement to sell your book without the weight of a big publishing house behind you, especially if it's your first public book and you're learning the ropes.
Bad Dog to Best Friend isn't the first book I've written but it's the first to go public and become available on Amazon.com. It's the first book I've had to figure out how to sell and it's the first book to get me banned from posting to Photobucket.
One thing I'm good at is writing to my...
August 30, 2010
Do not anger your fans
I was going to release a short story on Kindle but my beta reader talked me out of it. I wrote it about 15 years ago and I was editing it for new release. I turned it over to him and he gave it back with a sour puss.
He said, "Christians will be really upset with you for making up a story about God. Non-Christians will be really upset with you for tricking them into reading a religious story." Okay, well that pretty much covers everybody.
I took a piece of advice that was given in the...
