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November 5, 2013
Selling Books from The Trunk of Your Car . . .
I’ve heard tales of authors buying a gang-load of their book, loading them in the trunk, driving thousands of miles, stopping at hundreds of bookstores, and selling their creation by hand… Well, Suw Charman-Anderson, over at Forbes, has an article called, Self-Publishing And Direct Sales: Pros, Cons And Problems. Though, Suw isn’t talking about hand-selling […]
November 4, 2013
Thinking Self-Publishing Is Hard Can Be Dangerous . . .
There’s no doubt, barring felicitous coincidence, that traditional publishing is hard—finding a reputable agent, checking out the legally-dense contract, trying to negotiate better terms, losing a substantial amount of creative control, dealing with the strong potential for your book’s short shelf-life… David Gaughran, “…34-year old Irish writer, living in Sweden, who spends most of his […]
October 31, 2013
An Artificial Intelligence Speaks of The Soul . . .
Here comes more Behind The Scenes of the short novel Notes from An Alien. That last link will let you purchase a copy or get one free :-) I encourage folks to read it for two reasons: * Some of these Friday posts have Spoilers. * Reading the short novel will give you more insight […]
Blogs by Writers ~ Who Really Knows How To Do One?
I’ve spent many hours writing posts here about all the “advice” for writers the Internet is spewing out. Part of me feels I’ve wasted a huge amount of time discovering the rotten underbelly of “Authorial Experts”. Still, reading all the “advice” has let me, at least, warn others about where not to go… Just the […]
October 30, 2013
NaNoWriMo Has Some GREAT Sponsor FREEBIES !!
National Novel Writing Month will start in two days—various writers with various motivations will write 50,000 words (usually not edited at all)—1666.67 words per day (for an 8 hour day, 208.33 words per hour…). I’m not the type of writer that does something like this, though I’ve easily written 208+ words per hour many, many […]
October 29, 2013
Bad Advice for Writers = Most Advice for Writers
I have 34 past posts tagged “writing advice” and I encourage you to use the Top Tags widget in the left side-bar for all things Reading, Writing, and Publishing… If you take that link, you’ll see this post at the top of the page since I’m tagging it with “writing advice”. And, “writing advice” needs […]
October 28, 2013
Happy Birthday to Brain Pickings !
Writers seem to always be looking for new information, new ways to think about things, new sources of inspiration. Well, there’s a woman named Maria Popova who publishes a blog called Brain Pickings. When I compare the effort for my four blog posts a week plus my new Friday Behind The Scenes posts to Maria’s […]
October 25, 2013
How In The World Can Religion Be Rational?
Friday again. Time for another in the continuing series of Behind The Scenes of Notes from An Alien. If you haven’t read it, you can grab a free copy of my short novel and more than likely finish it over a weekend. The prime reason to read it before you jump into these Friday posts […]
October 24, 2013
“…A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.”
That quote in the title comes from Winston Churchill—”Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” But, this post isn’t about Churchill or Russia… It’s about a new archive site of the writings of Emily Dickinson. In many ways, Emily, in her life and in her poetry, was a riddle wrapped in […]
October 23, 2013
Learning About The Future of Storytelling . . .
Major Short-Term Alert! Take Action before October 25th, 2013!! 
