Don’t forget your business goals

Don’t forget your business goals

It is nearly that time of year! Yes, it is nearly time to look back at the year past and see what you’ve accomplished. How much money did you earn? How much did you spend on marketing and other writing-related expenses? How many books sold? Did your marketing strategy...
Are our books etched in stone?

Are our books etched in stone?

It used to be that once a book was published, that was it. It was done. It was as if it had been etched in stone. Once it went to the printer, there was no changing it – unless your book happened to get a second edition, which most works of genre fiction don’t. So you...
Linear Writing — or not?

Linear Writing — or not?

Are you a linear writer? Do you start at the beginning of your story and write straight through to the end? Or are you the sort of person who writes whatever scenes you can envision no matter where in the story the scene takes place? I’ve always been a rather top-down...
Writing Every Day

Writing Every Day

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the speed at which I write. Since signing a contract with a small publisher for three books and a Christmas novella, I’ve been stressing about my writing a lot more than I’ve had to do since I went indie. As an indie author, I...
As you know…a look into dialogue

As you know…a look into dialogue

Merry gazed into her computer screen at the twelve avid readers of her blog and countless others who popped in every now and then to see what she was writing this week. “You know I love you all,” she said with a wistful smile. “I’ve been writing this blog now for ten...