My blog entry today was stolen from someone else

Talk about taking it easy.

Geoff Rodkey — photo chosen because he’s a little bit hotter in this one

Looking at the date of my last post, I look like I’ve given up this blog or got lazy. Neither is true. I’ve been writing another novel, finished it, and outlined another, all while looking warily at Querytracker and not fitting any of the currently required niches of traditional publishing authorship–young, female and emo.

I’ve also been studying self-publishing, but that’s another story. I think the key to success in self-publishing is MONEY–not making it, but spending it.

Seldom do I subscribe to other blogs, having a hopscotch tendency on choosing subjects of interest. This one I follow, and read, from Geoff Rodkey, a brilliant author who wrote “We’re Not From Here.” That middle grade novel is a thinly-disguised story of immigration wrapped in a shiny sci-fi package. He’s written other good books, too, though I forgive him for “co-writing” (really, ghostwriting) the “Marcus” books with Kevin Hart. I pray Geoff didn’t have to sit in a room listening to Hart’s squalling and bleating–at least, that’s what Hart does on TV commercials.

The blog is “Geoff Rodkey’s Bad Advice.” This gives you a hint it’s funny. And anyone whose name is Geoff rather than Jeff has to be worth listening to.

There’s Ritalin in his blog entry, which I wish he’d give to Kevin Hart.

And this is his cornerstone entry (so far) because it is so DEAD-ON about traditional publishing. If you’re an author trying to get published, you will laugh at loud at the sad hard truths herein.

https://open.substack.com/pub/geoffrodkey/p/helicopter-parenting-for-the-aspiring?r=ibhew&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email