Posted to anticiworkshop as well, apologies to those who've seen it twice.

Let me present a snippet of a dialog two of my authorial personas recently had:

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HUCKSTER [a terrifying creature with big hair wearing a realtor's jacket and a label reading, "HI! I'm an author". She carries a monstrous shoulder bag decorated with buttons and ribbons ( Read more... )

I've tried to be good. I've tried to keep my mind just on writing, on building my list, and not worrying about promoting my work, but when another promo opportunity came by, I snatched at it like the weak-minded fool I am.

The charming, literate, and highly interesting proprietors of See Jane Publish offered to interview me, and so I dashed off some ( Read more... )

I received a major review, my first of any kind outside my beloved beta readers and critique partners, and it was a crappy one. I didn't have even the usual ream of five-star Amazon reviews from totally disinterested reviewers to buffer it. Unfortunately, I read it before my morning's writing session, and now Writer is hiding under her pile of ( Read more... )

Not going so badly so far. After one week, I'm on track for escaping zombies and putting up the next novel by June. Let's see what next week brings me ( Read more... )

Or, the Indie Commandments, part I

I shall not obsess over statistics. That way lies madness. Or at least too much cinnamon toast.

I've already learned the painful truth of this one. My book has been up a week, and already I've found that the numbers don't change more than once a day. If that. And watching your Amazon ranking rise or fall 50,000 ( Read more... )

Deep in a forest at the end of the world, a hero stands in the middle of a frozen lake. He wears antique armor, carries a bronze sword, and has the name of God bound about his upper arm. At his feet, a hole has been chopped in the ice, and in his hands is a diamond casket. In it, beats a living heart ( Read more... )

Cue the swelling music. Feel the awe.

I have found, finally, the true reason to get fit. To run in this.

Indianapolis, 2012. I'm there.

I'm not Jewish, but this is worth spreading.

Good lord, I hate doing blurbs even worse than synopses. After much pain, I have come up with this ( Read more... )

After all the technical difficulties of producing an ebook, what really has me fainting in coils is the idea of marketing. There are as many strategies out there as there are self-published authors, but I'm going the simple route. My first step was to enter in the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart contest for unpublished writers, in the ( Read more... )