Did you listen to the recent podcast with Shannon Baker, who recently received a plaque from her publisher for reaching 100,000 books sold? On the podcast, Shannon told a great story about sticking with it. “I think I would say ‘be the tortoise’ … just keep at it. I mean, when I started writing, (with)…
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Dial Into Collaborist
Writing advice is everywhere. Good writing advice? Not so much. My sole point this month is to get yourself connected to Collaborist. Here’s your portal: https://collaborist.org/ I highly recommend the YouTube chats. Here. Sample topics: And on and on. The co-hosts are Jason Buchholz and Ben LeRoy. The chat is always calm, low-key, and grounded…
The Good Thing
I sold a book last month based on an idea mentioned casually over lunch with a friend who has talked books and writing with me for over 25 years. (He’s not a writer, but he is a voracious reader.) I finished writing that book two years ago. I wrote it about it in December of…
Jeremy Bannister, or The Ups and Downs of An Aspiring Novelist
Yes, I am back promoting the late Gary Reilly. This July, my partner Mike Keefe and I released Gary’s 15th (all posthumously published) book. It’s called Jeremy Bannister, or the Ups and Downs of An Aspiring Novelist. It’s an unusual book because Gary wrote every chapter the same length–one chapter to a page. It’s about…
Publishing: The Writer’s Holy Grail?
One of my first writing mentors recently passed away. Not only was he one of my first critique partners, he was also the reason I joined Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and got my first publishing contract. But despite all the sound advice my friend gave me, he never published a book himself, although he certainly…