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September 5, 2012
Adventures in SP #6 Now What?
Yes, I turned down a publishing contract. Let’s recap what they were going to do for me and how they were going to sell my books: Copyright paperwork – I’d already done that Editing – I’d already paid a professional Put my book on Amazon, BN, Smashwords, Goodreads, their own website – I could do [...]
September 4, 2012
Adventures in SP #5 Publishers
In the interests of full disclosure, I did re-query one agent. That was after a friend referred me to her publisher and I’d received a contract offer. I mentioned that to him, and re-sent the info he’d originally asked for. Still nothing. So, about that publishing contract: Because my friend had mentioned the book to [...]
September 3, 2012
Adventures in SP #4 Querying
Ugh. Querying. I never gave it much thought before oh, say, a month ago. Didn’t figure it would be my strong suit, considering my overall lack of patience. Ha – I was right! Back in the day, after typing a manuscript, one would make copies and prepare them all to be sent off to potential [...]
August 31, 2012
Adventures in SP #3: The Next Step
So it was finished. Oh, dear. That means it was FINISHED! Now what?? I had actually printed off the first 100 pages or so that Friday, so my husband could start reading it because, as he said, “I’m a slow reader, I need to start NOW!” He wasn’t slow this time! He read Friday night, [...]
August 30, 2012
Adventures in SP #2
I spent a good portion of the month of February writing. Nearly every day, in fact, and at the end of the month I had around 30K words. Not too shabby! And then life got in the way. For those of you who don’t know, we own a bookstore. I really nice one, if I [...]
August 29, 2012
The Story Behind the Story, aka Adventures in SP #1
Actually, it’s “2″ since I used part of this title a few days ago, but let’s not quibble. About seven months ago, having an extensive online portfolio of non-fiction on the web and having played around with writing a novel for many years (okay, decades), I got hungry. Yes, literally – and decided that chips and [...]
August 28, 2012
Still a Giveaway!
Goodreads Book Giveaway Reduced by Robin Tidwell Giveaway ends September 30, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
August 27, 2012
LIVE on Kindle!
Yes, folks, we have lift-off! Now available on Kindle – REDUCED!
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