Monthly Archives: September 2020

I’m sure it’s hard to set yourself up as an indie publisher. What services will you provide to your authors? Will you specialize in some particular genre? How will you promote the books on your list? How will you bring … Continue reading →

Reading a few of the little essays in Lawrence Block’s Telling Lies for Fun and Profit got me off the dime. Last night and today I sent an even dozen queries to literary agents to try to find someone who … Continue reading →

The local library is starting up its science fiction book club again, using Zoom. I was happy to join. This month’s discussion will be of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It’s all about pandemics, and that’s obviously why it was … Continue reading →

I may add to this post from time to time, as more things occur to me. We’ll start off with just one quick tip: Never throw away your old files. Archive everything. Even the stuff you’re sure you’re never going … Continue reading →

So, you’ve written a book. You’re convinced it’s really good — the type of thing a mainstream publisher would love to publish. What’s your next step? This question came up today in a Facebook writers’ group. Great source for blog … Continue reading →

The prevailing view of point-of-view in fiction is that, having chosen a particular point of view, the writer ought to stick with it — if not throughout a novel (which may not, depending on the nature of the story, be … Continue reading →

Tonight I was looking at book covers on Amazon. I happened to click the Look Inside for a certain book, partly to see the cover image in a larger display and partly because the description of the book was rather … Continue reading →