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Which Genre of Fiction Do You Prefer? ~ How About Literary Fiction?

I can hear some readers saying, “Literary fiction isn’t a genre!”. Hmmm… “Genre” is a term used to divide fiction up into classes or “treatments” or boxes. “Literary” can be used that way, too—as well as a modifier—literary mysteries, literary romances, etc. Still, some folks want to keep “literary” and “genre” well-separated… Some might even [...]

Can Music Reveal The Heart of An Author?

I’ve used a certain sentence, for years, as my online motto: I’m a writer with roaring flames in my heart… No gimmick—straight-up truth—always been that way. Favorite singer? Annie Lennox. In fact, back in September of 2011, I did a post called, Can An Author Learn About Writing From ASinger? Worth reading, even if I [...]

Should Writers Blog? ~ If They Do, What Are The “Rules” . . .

There are many reasons for writers to blog… One was explored in my previous post, Blogging ~ Can It Really Fulfill The Writer’s Dictum: “Write EveryDay!”? As I pointed out in that post, the maverick in me had to punctuate that tile the way I did… As far as “rules” for writers, you’ll see why [...]

One Author’s Journey ~ Self-Publishing A Novel

This blog is All about Reading, Writing, and Publishing. This is post number 573. The best way to dig into all the information here is to use either the Top Tags area over in the left side-bar or use your own search terms in the search-box at the upper right… I often go searching past [...]

Child Authors Become Devoted Readers

I’m ineffably delighted to be writing this particular post! My parents were not particularly avid readers… Somehow, I became a voracious reader, though I didn’t become an author until I turned 59. Yet, that last sentence isn’t true to my deepest feelings; I wrote it from the perspective of other’s perceptions — writers write and [...]

Author Interview ~ Laura Cantu

Many of you know I’m the Events Manager on Book Island in the virtual world Second Life. We have many writers attending events and a few of them have been interviewed here. Here comes another one :-) ~~~ Welcome to the blog, Laura. Let’s start with you telling us about your newly finished book, O. [...]

Review of APE ~ Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch

Considering the World-Wide Web, this blog is written by a Nobody. I doubt my review of this book will read by more than about 30 people. Still, it’s getting so much press and the main author is so well-known that I felt it necessary to review it, to protect those who care about what I [...]

Business Advice for Writers ~ Reader Beware !

Last November, I shared the post The “Right” Way To Write ~ Writing Advice for The Brave . .. In that post, I said: “These days, writing advice is cheap—even free on the Web—cheap, also, in the sense ‘of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort’.” I also shared a quote [...]

An Author’s Advice To His Child . . .

We’ve had 28 posts on this blog covering various aspects of “Writing Advice”… Of course, you can use the links in the Top Tags widget in the left side-bar to find all kinds of categories of posts or you can put search terms in the Search widget in the upper right corner :-) As far [...]

A Very Easy Way To Find Free E-Books on Amazon

While Smashwords bills itself as “the world’s largest distributor of indie ebooks”, there’s no doubt Amazon has lots of them :-) Finding the free ones easily can be a bit tedious… Wired-UK recently had an article called Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks and that article quotes one of the founders of that [...]