By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer I’m going blind. The eye doctor told me this a few weeks ago. I have diabetic retinopathy which is basically uncontrolled bleeding behind my eyes from half a lifetime of having type 1 diabetes. Retinopathy leads to blindness. It might take a year, it might be five, ten, or twenty years….
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Orange is the New Black is Back So I Spent My Blog Writing Time Watching it…
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer My original post was going to be something very profound and enlightening, something that would make your writing career, and eventually put you at the NY Times Bestseller List, and then I started watching the 2nd season of Orange is the New Black… If you haven’t seen Orange is the New Black,…
How to Make a Damn Good Living as a Writer
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer With a title like that you’d think I’d have an answer, right? Well I do. Just not one writers like to hear. So let’s get the nasty part out of the way now. Here goes: Only a very small percentage (under 8%) of working writers are making a living strictly…
Look Who’s Coming to the Colorado Gold Conference: Peter Senftleben
I first met Peter Senftleben at the Colorado Gold Conference in 2010. After reading his bio, I joined the critique workshop where he and other writers gave feedback on 20 or so pages of my manuscript. The couple of hours I spent in that workshop changed my life. Forever. Peter ended up buying that manuscript,…
How Amazon Turned Me into a Serial Killer
Prior to September of 2012, my life was perfect. I had friends, my books were selling, and all was well. Then Amazon went and ruined my life. Forever.
And no, I am not being melodramatic.
Okay, I am, but just a little.