I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m presenting my stories, from a marketing and pricing perspective, and I’ve decided to make a few changes. First, let’s talk Pericles. I’ve been wondering for a while whether I chose correctly about …
Well, it’s been a while since I posted. I’m totally not keeping up with my stated goal of at least once a week. Here’s the thing. Monday comes along and I get to thinking, I need to update my blog …
Came close this week. Observe: Of course, close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons. But in this case I got 5,520 word written instead of 7,500. That’s still pretty decent. You’ll note from the graph that I …
Yeah, I’m feeling a little bit saucy. Hence the play on Simon and Garfunkel in the title of this post. It’s been a while since I last posted anything. And a lot’s happened in the interim. So why haven’t I …
Wow, talk about a crazy couple weeks. I’ve been jaunting all over the country, writing, searching for housing, listening to feedback, getting a tan… And I never tan. You want to talk about instant-lobster, that’s me. But somehow this week …
Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I fly out to Oregon for Dean and Kris‘ Character Voice and Setting Workshop. It runs from Saturday afternoon through the following Saturday, and I’m pretty much certain I won’t have any time to update …
I’ve been meaning to put out a print version of Masters of the Sun for a while now, but for whatever reason I hadn’t put in the elbow grease to make it happen. I started working on the interior layout …
Dean linked to a great post that Joe Konrath made yesterday. In it, Joe talks about how, contrary to what some out there assume, he doesn’t sell a lot because he’s “famous”. I love reading this from him. It’s not …
The other day I wrote about my consternation over a thread on Kindleboards about whether or not an indie writer should use an agent to help negotiate the deal if publishers come knocking on the writer’s door. My thesis is …
First, allow me to say: Wow! The end of the month was rather unexpected. Since I’ve only got a couple short stories up for sale online so far, I don’t tend to pay much attention to ebook sales (there are …