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SHUT HAPPENS 12 Nov 2011 | 07:00 pm
I'm not much for goodbyes, so this will be brief. Thank you for your encouragement and support over these last few years. I will miss you all terribly. I know this because of how much I miss you ev.....
STRING BRIDGE Amazon Chart Rush! 11 Nov 2011 | 07:00 pm
IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! Today is THE day to help Jessica Bell's debut, STRING BRIDGE , hit the bestseller list on Amazon, and receive the all-original soundtrack, Melody Hill: On the Other Side, wr...
Who Do, Voodoo? Rochelle Staab, that's who! 7 Nov 2011 | 07:00 pm
Today, I am thrilled and honored to welcome one of my favorite people in the world, Rochelle Staab. Rochelle and first I met online during a UCLA Extension writing course in 2008. We both wrote myster...
Author Blogs, pt. 2 1 Nov 2011 | 04:00 pm
In part one, I talked about why author blogs don’t sell books. Today I want to discuss why it’s not only okay for authors to blog about writing, but why it may be a good idea. There are plenty of fol...
All Hallows Read 31 Oct 2011 | 01:00 am
Interrupting my regularly scheduled post to say HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I hope by now you've heard of ALL HALLOWS READ? What do you mean, no???!!! "All Hallow’s Read is a Hallowe’en tradition. It’s s...
Author Blogs Do Not Sell Books, pt. 1 24 Oct 2011 | 04:00 pm
“What Publishers Need to Understand Word of mouth is what sells books. Not direct selling. And authors cannot do their own word of mouth. So the numbers of the author don’t matter as much...
RU Kidding Me? Another #$%^&* Rule Post? 17 Oct 2011 | 04:00 pm
As this blog draws ever-nearer to its inexorable denouement—hey, I'm allowed to use big words like inexorable and denouement, I'm a writer—there are a few truths I'd like to share. Feel free to disagr...
Writer Reality Check 10 Oct 2011 | 04:00 pm
"It is easy — terribly easy — to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit, is devil's work." ~GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I’ve been struggling with whether to contin...
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 6 Oct 2011 | 03:00 pm
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” -Steve Jobs, The Wall ...
Got good news? 3 Oct 2011 | 04:00 pm
Anyone there? I’m back from vacation. It was a brilliant month filled with art, architecture, wonderful people, heart-stopping landscapes, brutal heat, and far too much food. I’ll spare you a trip r...
