Garrett Robinson's Blog, page 70
June 16, 2014
Patronage as a Business Model
Patronage, the artistic business model of old, has made a major comeback with the twenty-first century's advent of crowdfunding, and sites such as Patreon.com.
June 9, 2014
Personal Responsibility
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. Some people… …maybe a lot of people… …maybe even MOST people… …really aren’t fond of the idea of personal responsibility. In artists, this takes many forms. Maybe a writer signed with a publisher, and they’re unhappy with how that publisher is promoting their book, or how [...]
June 4, 2014
Acknowledgements for Rebel Yell
I just wrote an Acknowledgements page for the back of my next novel, Rebel Yell, and I thought, “You know what? Maybe my blog readers would like to read this.” After all, many of you are my Rebels. And if you are, you get your own little shoutout in this page. And more importantly, as [...]
June 2, 2014
Negative Reviews and Five Minute Books
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life! So today I want to talk about Five Minute Books, my book review show I do on my YouTube channel. You might have seen it before, if not, you can click on that link above which will take you to the whole playlist. You can peruse for a [...]
May 30, 2014
Writing Update: The Plot Twist
On Fridays I update you on my writing and discuss anything interesting I’m going through in telling my next story. This week’s update is, of course, about Rebel Yell, since that still consumes most of my time. (If you haven’t yet, you can pre-order it here). A lot of writers (and, for that matter, readers) place [...]
May 26, 2014
Editing Pet Peeves #3: Who and Whom
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. All right, another editing/grammar/writing post, here we go! Who and whom. Yeah. Whom. That freaky little alternate version of “Who” with the extra “m” at the end. What the hell is up with that freak of nature? First, a disclaimer: “Whom” doesn’t actually MEAN anything different [...]
May 21, 2014
Ebook Sales Conversion Rates (A Case Study)
A common tactic for today’s self-published author is to make one or more written works available for free. This tactic is recommended by many reputable authors, from Hugh Howey (long may he reign) on down. The major benefits to doing so are usually listed thus: Free books get more downloads. You’re putting your name and [...]
May 19, 2014
Editing Pet Peeves #2: The Dreaded Semicolon
Good Morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life! Wow, so the last grammar vlog was very well-liked by some of you and I got a lot of requests to do more of that. Today we’re going to talk about the semicolon, perhaps the most feared punctuation mark of all time. There’s a lot of confusion [...]
May 16, 2014
Protected: Ebook Sales Conversion Rates (A Case Study) Part 1
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How to Write Songs in Books
Good morning, Rebels, and welcome back to my life. Well, it’s Friday again, so that means it’s time for another writing update, and of course, since I’m still working on Rebel Yell, I guess I should update you on that. Since Rebel Yell is about a band, there’s obviously a lot of music in it. [...]
