Keep Going

This blog post was inspired by the awesome hashtag on Twitter: #keepgoing. It was truly amazing to read some of the tweets from writers of many different walks. Inspiring and emotional, to say the least. So I thought I’d share my story. Last December, I had three book deals for a total of five books […]

What A Literary Agent Does and Why It Matters

So I haven’t written a post in a while on my ongoing publishing series on getting an agent, publisher or publicist. Click on the FAQ tab and scroll down to the “ABOUT YOU” section for more information on previous posts. Click on any one of the links for more detail. And if you don’t see […]

LA Times Article: The Future of Reading

Neat article in the LA Times about the future of the publishing industry. It’s an interesting (and eye-opening) take on the role of traditional publishers and literary agents. Check it out. Book publishers see their role as gatekeepers shrink I’m starting to see more and more of this as mainstream multi-published authors separate from their […]

Selecting An Agent – Literary or Publicity

I know that I haven’t written anything lately in my how-to series on finding and choosing a literary agent. I don’t have much to add if you’ve followed most of the advice I’ve posted in prior iterations, but there’s a couple key things I didn’t note before. I can’t emphasize the importance of this advice, […]

NaNoWriMo is Baaaack!

Some writer I am, right? Not even remembering that this is National Novel Writing Month, i.e., thirty days and nights of literary abandon! Last year, if you can remember back that far, I made it to 30-something thousand words, but the good thing is that I actually got a completed novel out of that story, […]

A Writing Dichotomy

I haven’t really written much in weeks, probably a couple thousand words at the most for a new story that hasn’t really gone anywhere other than a few intro pages. It’s not that I don’t have inspiration, I do. I have a ton of cool story ideas from post-apocalyptic to magical fantasy to horror. The […]

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