It requires a huge investment of time and years of immersion in the literary craft to write a viable novel or short story collection, and let’s face it: publishing these days is worse than a crapshoot. You may not find a publisher, and even if you do find one – or if you take the…
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Audiobooks … by Richard Rieman
Audiobooks are the fastest growing medium in publishing. How far have audiobooks come? The first audiobooks were called “Talking Books” and were created in the 1930s for people with visual disabilities in America and Britain. This group included war-blinded soldiers and blind civilians who couldn’t read braille. It was illegal for sighted persons to listen…
#April … by Rainey Hall
One year ago, I declared April 11, 2017 as “Write Any Way You Want and Forget about Bridging Paragraphs Day” aka “Babbling is Okay.” March madness is over, the green jacket has been given away, sunlight before 8AM; Autism Awareness Day, Earth Day, Professional Administrator’s Day, Passover, and of course after-Easter chocolate sales. No fooling,…
How to Use LinkedIn & Twitter to Find an Agent
So, you’ve been to the Gold Conference. Took classes on how to write. Went to RMFW Saturday talks and bought several books on the craft of writing. You then went to work on your novel. That story that’s been bugging you since your sophomore year of high school. That novel. You wrote it! Congrats. Now…
Getting to Know You: The RMFW Q&A Project #10
The Getting to Know You Project was intended to introduce RMFW members with short responses to three questions, a photo, and a few social media links. This will be the last post in the series for now. Mike Houtz Website: http://mikehoutz.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/author.mikehoutz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelhoutz/ 1. We know the who (that’s you), so will you…