Robin Tidwell's Blog, page 64
March 1, 2013
Tea Doesn't Bring Back Lost Files or Fix Boilers!
Reblogged from Charlotte Howard: As I write this, I am dressed in a thick jumper, with a dressing gown, thick socks and slippers, and considering putting gloves on. My boiler has died. The gas man came to fix it, only to tell me that it needs a part. Best case scenario - I will be [...]
February 28, 2013
Purchasing My Own Book -- The Smart Way, and the iUniverse Way
Reblogged from Michelle Proulx - The Blog: As I promised yesterday, today I bring you the latest silliness from iUniverse. You're actually very lucky, because I have not one, buttwobits of silliness to share with you today. Ready? Silliness #1: Incorrect Genre Classification This one is probably a clerical error, but it's a very silly, [...]
February 27, 2013
Life Resumes
Reblogged from Charlotte Howard: After being stopped several times and hearing people say "I didn't know you were a writer," it suddenly struck me that when we read books, we forget that it was written by someone who has a life outside of writing. Yes, I am a writer. Yes, I am a published novelist. [...]
February 26, 2013
And In The News...
Reblogged from Charlotte Howard: Sort of. Last Thursday I was lucky enough to be featured in our local paper, the Western Gazette. I was expecting a small corner of the paper, perhaps a little photograph no bigger than passport sized. But no! I got almost an entire page!! And it's obvious that people read it [...]
February 25, 2013
Rocking Horse Publishing
As most of you know, we have a project up on Indiegogo. We’re trying to raise funds to expand our publishing house because, truly, the response has been overwhelming! We now have six authors under contract with six more books scheduled for release this year. And several others have expressed interest in having RHP publish [...]
February 23, 2013
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Reblogged from Health & Family: 1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been treated there 10 years earlier, and she and [...]
February 22, 2013
Multi-Author Short Story Collections?
Reblogged from mishaburnett: Okay, so I've got this idea... Now, you'll recall that I don't think ideas as such are worth much, but this one amuses me. What I'd like to do is get a number of writers to write short stories based on this idea, and package it all together as a book. Does [...]
February 21, 2013
A Day In The Life...
Reblogged from Charlotte Howard: This idea is completely stolen from Robin Tidwell of Rocking Horse Publishing after she blogged a day in her life. I thought it was interesting and funny, so decided to let you all have a sneak-peek into my average day too! Be warned - it's lengthy. 6.30 - Alarm goes off. [...]
February 20, 2013
A Day in the Life of Publishing/Bookselling/Writing
6:30 a.m. Stagger out of bed, making sure all body parts are functioning. Make coffee and make way to office, shuffling like an old blind woman. Try to remember how to spell password and log in to computer. 6:40 a.m. Open email program. Delete half of new messages, answer two with a short sentence each, [...]
February 18, 2013
5 Big Things People Should Know About Self-Published Authors
Reblogged from David's Doodlings: Many of you know I self-published Absolute Authority through CreateSpace, Amazon's publishing house. This was not because the book wasn't good enough to get published the traditional way. It was. But after going through the agony of querying adnauseum, I did the math and figured out I was better off not [...]
