There are some ideas that come out fully formed, like Athena from Zeus' head. These ideas are ready to be turned into writing projects immediately. Others need to stew for years. Most are somewhere in-between ( Read more... )

"July Novel Writing Month" is over as of midnight last Saturday night. While the result is the lowest word count of any July or November writing month so far, it was far from a failure ( Read more... )

Where do ideas come from ( Read more... )

I've made a business decision to see what might happen as an Indi Author/Publisher. As I want this to be successful, I cannot just let things fall as they may. So, it's time to make a few hard decisions. I need to go into this with a plan. A full business plan will come later, which I will post, but for now I need to get started on a few other ( Read more... )

Do I think print books are dead? Absolutely not. I love them and so do a great many others.

But I also see things changing, and the print form of books may take a different (and smaller) market segment than they do now. Along with them will go the 'traditional' path of the big publisherAs a writer/author/storyteller, it would be foolish of me to ( Read more... )

Into the Forest Shadows

On a world of valuable giant trees and intelligent animals, a red-cloaked headstrong teen struggles to save her family from a planetary conspiracy awaiting her at Grandmother's house.

The above 2009 NaNoWriMo book was the novel I used to go through Holly Lisle's "How to Revise Your Novel" class. The class started on ( Read more... )

* If something doesn't work, YOU CHANGE. You must be flexible to new market conditions to survive.

You don't ignore it. You don't argue about it or to it. You don't insist on a different reality ( Read more... )

* Keep a good relationship with your wholesale/product resources. If you don't have a product to sell, you don't have a business ( Read more... )

* If a customer has to hunt down your product, many times they will instead switch to what they CAN easily find. For many people time is money.

Part of this goes back to "Knowing Your Customer", but this also comes down to product availability ( Read more... )

* If it's not a price the customer is willing to pay, they will compromise and go with another product that they are willing to pay.Look at Wal-Mart. They are taking over retail by using to their advantage the truth that smaller profit but bigger sell-through equals more profit ( Read more... )