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April 20, 2016
Author Websites: To Host or Self Host?
It may not seem like it, but there is a world of difference between hosted and self hosted when it comes to author websites. The easiest way to understand the differences between these two is to think about a car vs. a bus. With a bus you only get one type of bus and you’ve got […]
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Hosted vs. Self Hosted Websites
It may not seem like it, but there is a world of difference between a hosted and self hosted website. The easiest way to understand the differences between these two is to think about a car vs. a bus. With a bus you only get one type of bus and you’ve got no say in […]
April 11, 2016
Author Platform ≠ Marketing!
I follow 1,066 people on Twitter. I consistently engage with and read the tweets of about 100 of those. Every other tweet from every other person I never even see – thank you Twitter lists! Why? Because the rest of those folks are tweeting nothing but pleas for me to buy their stuff. It’s completely […]
April 6, 2016
Writing Life Comic #4: Ideas
If I had a dollar for every time this happened to me I’d be giving my books away and living like J.K. Rowling! Many (most) writers are part-time scribblers and part-time something elsers. Ideas seem to fall from the sky at an alarming rate while I’m working on that something else. I wade through them like snow […]
March 16, 2016
7 Ways to Screw Up When Choosing Your Domain Name
Last month we jawed about some things to consider when choosing a domain name. This month we’re talking about seven ways to screw the whole thing up. Yeah yeah… rules are made for breaking the way that boots are made for walking. But not these rules. Choosing a domain name based on a character in your book Naming […]
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7 Ways to Screw Yourself When Choosing A Website Name
Last month we jawed about some things to consider when choosing a domain name. This time I simply going to tell you seven things to not do. Yea yea… rules are made for breaking the way that boots are made for walking. But not these rules. DO NOT name your website after a character in […]
March 2, 2016
Writing Life Comic #3: Writers Boulders
Somewhere roughly about the midpoint of a novel life really begins to suck for a writer. You would think that being a plotter would help with this, but, you’d be wrong. Middles are simply shitty places to be. I think if a novel could be written without a middle all of use would do it. […]
February 22, 2016
Will Write for Money
Yea. That’s right. I write for money. I don’t do it for the art. I don’t do it for the story. I don’t do it to satisfy the voices in my head. I don’t do it to be fully alive, or to change the world, or to discover who I am, or to fill the […]
February 17, 2016
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Not Smell as Sweet
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare That sentence makes perfect sense in the heady perfumed delusional state of adolescent love. It makes no sense at all in the anonomizing deluge that is the internet and the writing industry. Philosophers wonder how […]
February 3, 2016
Writing Life Comic #2: Writing is Dangerous
Writers may not always be writing, but they are always working. Last winter I took a vacation to Puerto Rico and I spent a considerable amount of time of every activity considering how/if/when it might be used in a story. In Across the Darkling Sea (releasing in April 2016!) an entire chapter of that book […]
