Such a calm word—moderator. Merriam Webster: “Someone who leads a discussion in a group and tells each person when to speak: someone who moderates a meeting or discussion.” I’ve been going to book conferences for years and for some reason this year I sat in on a few panels led by some truly awful moderators….
Tag: Mark Stevens
Singing the Book Promotion Blues
With a new book coming out in June, I have had the pleasure—and the pain—of deciding what I need to do to get the word out. My decisions are similar to the ones anyone launching a book makes. Being realistic, there is only so much time and money, and never enough. There is also a limited…
Speaking of Podcasts…
Mark Stevens, RMFW’s podcast guru, published a post yesterday that mentioned his broken podcast microphone, and that reminded me we haven’t mentioned those podcasts here on the blog for quite a while. You do listen to the podcasts, right? I mean, you are aware that RMFW has a series of excellent podcasts for your education…
Everything Is Broken
I hate it when things aren’t working right. Last week was a doozy. First, it was the microphone I use to record podcasts. (Yes, RMFW, the microphone you purchased to help start the podcasts– all $50 worth. It worked for two years & 77 podcasts and then pfffft.) It looked the same as always. Nothing…
Random Thoughts
1. In the latest review on Amazon for The Asphalt Warrior, the first book in the eight-book series by the late Gary Reilly, a reader wrote: “Writers, good ones, create their readers. And this book does that.” Do good writers “create their own readers?” I love that idea. Are you going after your readers? Or…