About This Writing Stuff...

OK, so the short-story collection that I'd been editing for the past 8 months--and which contains three of my own stories--was finally submitted to the publisher yesterday.  So I can come up for air long enough to post a special, off-schedule expanded edition of About This Writing Stuff...  Then the blog will go dark again for quite a while as I go off to record about 15 chapters of By Your Side on audio.

Below are articles on everything from writers block (Hedlund, Sicoe) to the perils of the eBook gift card (Passive Voice, Smith).  Jami Gold touches on theme while Sophie Mason defends description.  Kristen Lamb talks confidence and Dave Kerpen offers advice on how to be taken seriously.   Jane Friedman covers the basics of self-publishing, Barbara O'Neal stresses the importance of editors, and we get a two-fer from Kristine Kathryn Rusch who never fails to tell it like it is in publishing.  That and much more...enjoy!


Want to be Taken Seriously?  Become a Better Writer by Dave Kerpen

The Basics of DIY E-Book Publishing by Jane Friedman (Jane will be a guest at the Write Stuff later this month!!)

Good Fit for Today's Little Screen: Short Stories by Leslie Kaufman

3 Surprising Lessons About Publishing Today by Jessica Strawser

Crazy 8 Press Unveils 2013 Plans by Bob Greenberger

The Death of Publishing and Out! All of You! by Kristine Kathrryn Rusch

Platform for Indie Authors to Sell Gift Cards by Passive Voice

Book Gift Cards are Coming...But the Wrong Way by Dean Wesley Smith

Is Amazon Killing the Free eBook? and NOOK: Cost Cutting Coming by Jeremy Greenfield

How to Revise for a Stronger Theme by Jami Gold

Why I Don't Get Writer's Block and How You Can Avoid It, Too by Jody Hedlund

7 Things Confident Writers Don't Do by Kristen Lamb

13 Geeky Ways to Beat Writer's Block by Veronica Sicoe

A Question of Description by Sophie Masson

Author as Innovator: The Future of Publishing is Story, not Technology by Dan Blank

The Value of Editors by Barbara O'Neal