By Mario Acevedo A recent questionnaire on Facebook asked to list fifteen authors that influenced you personally. I jotted down some names, then as I thought about it, kept revising the list. After I had posted the list I realized I had overlooked one of the authors. So I’ll start this edited list with him….
Author: J.A. (Julie) Kazimer
Amazon Ranking: From Loser to Bestseller and Back Again
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer *The words/numbers I am about to bore you with are all true. – You can trust me. I would never lie. Amazon…*sigh* Did anyone else get a little flutter just saying the word? Are your hands starting to sweat? If not, then you probably haven’t launched a book recently. You see,…
The Importance of a Good Beta Reader
by Katriena Knights If you’ve seriously pursued writing for any amount of time, you know you can’t be trusted to judge your own work. Scenes that seem wonderfully constructed in our heads are completely incomprehensible to other people. Glorious flights of poetic prose are actually pools of verbal quicksand from which no reader will ever…
A Few Upcoming April Events
The Connection Between POV and Your Storyteller’s Voice presented by Karen Duvall | Monday, April 7 thru April 20 | Yahoo! Groups | Online Class The Writer’s Conquest: Marketing for Today’s Author presented by Thomas A. Fowler | April 12, 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. | Sam Gary Branch Library, Denver, CO | Free Program
10 Myths about Being an Author
By J.A. Kazimer My name is Julie and I’m an author. You know I’m telling the truth, because it says so right there on that book —> Anyway, people are always asking questions. The big one is “Would you like fries with that?” but sometimes the questions relate to being an author. I’m not sure…