Showing posts with label business of writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business of writing. Show all posts
Thursday, March 02, 2023

The Fates of Magazines

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Arley Sorg's "By the Numbers" column in the March-April 2023 MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION is titled "The Lifes...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Goals

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As I've mentioned before, I haven't done New Year's "resolutions" in a long time. Thinking of the coming year in those...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Advice on "Breaking In" to Publishing

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Cory Doctorow's newest LOCUS column discusses the beginning writer's obsessive quest for tips from pros on how to get started in pub...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Quantitative and Qualitative

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes the difference between quantitative and qualitative measurements and the pitfalls of depend...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Survival in the World of Publishing

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Kameron Hurley's new LOCUS essay reflects on her first ten years as a published author: How to Survive a Decade in Publishing Her fi...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Shadow of the Beast

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My first published novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST, a werewolf urban fantasy with romantic elements, is back in print after a few years of dorman...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Writers and Their Finances

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In the April 2020 LOCUS, Kameron Hurley writes about the difficulties of maintaining a reliable income stream as a freelance author: The T...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

When Publishers Fold

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Recently, author Delilah Devlin hosted me on her blog, where I wrote about what to do with books and stories "orphaned" by the clo...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Work-Life Balance for Writers

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Speaking of burnout (last week), coincidentally the current issue of RWR, the magazine of the Romance Writers of America, contains an articl...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Writer's Burnout

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Kameron Hurley's essay in the latest issue of LOCUS focuses on burnout. This isn't the same as "writer's block" (which...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Maryland Renaissance Festival

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This past Saturday, my husband (Leslie Roy Carter) and I had a book signing for our Wild Sorceress series, hosted by the Page After Page boo...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Surviving the Gold Rush as a Writer

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The latest issue of RWR (the members' magazine of Romance Writers of America) includes an article titled "The Key to a Lifelong Car...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Lessons About Being a Writer

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Kameron Hurley's essay in the current issue of LOCUS consists of a page-long catalog of large and small epiphanies about the facts of th...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Grabbing Attention

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS essay expounds upon the "arms race" for our attention in the media. He compares the "race...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

Fictional Chronology Versus Real-Life Time

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How do you handle the problem when the timeline of a fictional series slides out of sync with the real passage of time? The novels in my vam...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

New Year's Goals

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In January, I prefer to set "goals" (modest, achievable ones) rather than "resolutions." The latter word sounds more int...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Index to Believing In The Happily Ever After

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Index to Believing In The Happily Ever After  Here is an index to posts about believing in the happily ever after. http://aliendjinnro...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

A Writer's Mission?

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Kameron Hurley's latest LOCUS column begins with the declaration, "Most writers quit." Having grabbed our attention with that ...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Shifting Landscape of Publishing

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Here are links to two blog posts related to the challenges of flourishing as an author in today's publishing environment. Horror write...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Who You Know

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An essay by Kameron Hurley about why relationships matter in the publishing business: Hard Publishing Truths She describes how a multi-l...
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