Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
I’m delighted to tell you that normal service is resumed! I have started writing again! Ronel, Deniz, Pat Garcia,Olga Godim, and Cathrina Constantine Normal Service equals writing a book! I’m not sure why it happened. I started thinking about maybe writing a chapter a
I’ve been planning another anthology of short stories to add to my five Unexpected Twisty Tales. But I seem to have a mixture of flash fiction and short nature writing to include in it. Can I mix them? Diedre Knight, Lisa
I wondered whether I could still call myself a writer when I was booking next year’s craft fair spaces. Do I still write? I am an author — look, here are my books. But does that make me a writer?
You know the problem; so many ideas, so little time. In my case the time constraint is how much time I can spend at the keyboard without wrecking my hands for several days. And damp weather makes them worse. But
Do you have, or do you listen to, audiobooks? I have an audiobook problem, and I’d like your ideas. Basically, my narrator needs to change. Feather Stone, Kim Lajevardi,Diedre Knight, C. Lee McKenzie, and Sarah – The Faux Fountain Pen My audiobook problem It
Sometimes when I’m doing my book sales, my reaction sometimes has to be ‘aren’t people funny?’ It’s part of that shell you need to ward off the comments and reviews that hurt your ego. JS Pailly, Rebecca Douglass, Pat Garcia, Louise-Fundy Blue, and Natalie Aguirre
I thought an IWSG post about books and fairs might go down well this week. I mean, I spend most of my time reading books and going to sell my books at fairs. And I enjoy both of those very
I told you about the two emails that threw me curved balls last month. I sort of sorted one out and talked about it in another post a couple of weeks back. Now an update and a couple more issues
The curved ball thrown by my paperback distributor featured in my IWSG post two weeks ago. To recap, an email from the publisher said Ingram would be dropping my “book/books” from April 25th. But not which titles. the supply chain
Last week, my publisher partners sent me two emails, both throwing me curved balls. As I often do, I decided to talk through my problems here with you! Janet Alcorn, T. Powell Coltrin,Natalie Aguirre, and Pat Garcia! Publisher: Smashwords (ebooks) problem: ebook rejected
Update your book descriptions? Why? Those were my questions when I read an interesting post on marketing your Amazon titles at Jane Friedman’s website. Kristina Kelly, Miffie Seideman,Jean Davis, and Liza @ Middle Passages Update Book descriptions to increase your Amazon Rankings That,
Extra reading is something I rarely need, but I got an email from a research group, and I thought I’d pass it on to you. As if getting through my review list to fit one book in every Saturday, or
I think 2023 was a year to forget for me. The good news is that I have recently had some improvement in both my wrists and my neck/shoulders, and I am generally feeling more positive about doing things. The decision
November already, and it brings NaNo to plenty of minds and keyboards. It’s this month’s question, too. PJ Colando, Jean Davis,Lisa Buie Collard, and Diedre Knight! Question of the Month November is National Novel Writing Month. Have you ever participated? If not, why
I was intending to review my rereads of the Princelings this week, but I found the IWSG Question of the month so interesting, I knew I couldn’t do both subjects justice in one post. If you’d like to see what