A new nonfiction project comin’ down the pike!
Coming soon, my new nonfiction project, Close to Perfect: How to Write and Publish Your Novel. Here’s the gist: Thank goodness novelist Kevin Brennan (Parts Unknown, Yesterday Road, Eternity Began … Continue reading
Never give a Finch
I won’t be reading Harper Lee’s, Go Set A Watchman. Why? Because “Atticus Finch” is gone. Atticus Finch, sans quotation marks, survives in the new novel as a KKK-sampling elderly … Continue reading
Self-publishing wake-up call No. 2472
Back on the first of May I ran a Kindle Select promotion for Occasional Soulmates: three days of freebies. To pump up the volume, I listed the promo on a … Continue reading
Final day for the Occasional Soulmates 99 cent countdown deal!
That’s right. If you’ve been fence-sitting on this thing, today’s the day you have to act. Occasional Soulmates is 99 cents until midnight PST. It’s been a successful promotion, but … Continue reading
A big deal: Amazon and Hachette are going steady
By now just about everyone in the business — and by the business I mean the industry — has heard that Amazon and Hachette have found common ground and inked … Continue reading
To Bezos or not to Bezos…that is the question
So yesterday I wrote this whole long thing about Amazon (again) — prompted by Paul Krugman’s column declaring that Amazon’s business strategy is “hurting America.” This morning I realized: I … Continue reading
More news from the shark tank
#455414777 / gettyimages.com Joe Nocera of The Times has an interesting take on the evilness of Amazon in today’s paper. Refreshingly, he’s a Hachette author who admits that he’s not … Continue reading
A stack of wholesome goodness
Guess what showed up in the afternoon post yesterday. Books, babies! A lovely stack of books! This is my first batch of author copies of Occasional Soulmates, which I’m planning … Continue reading
How much should you spend on self-publishing? How much ya got?
Yes, self-publishing is here to stay, and it offers writers a convenient and credible way to get their work out into the world. But to do it right, according to … Continue reading
WHAT THE HELL 