I’m sorry! I’m sorry I can’t stop talking about Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. I’m sorry that so many people either love it or hate it or both and shake their fists at the firmament and there is the wailing and the gnashing of the teeth. I loved episode VII. I was transported…
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RMFW Writer(S!) of the Year Begins
Big news everybody! Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers has opened up two selection committees for great Writers of the Year this year. For the first time not only will we have a traditionally published WOTY, but also an independently published, or I-WOTY as well. If you’ve been experiencing some publishing success please check out the website…
I Have an Idea
“Where do you get ideas for books?”
I’ve been asked this question a lot, and I have to admit it bewilders me. I don’t know what actually spawns them, but the suckers are everywhere, like ants at a picnic, like wasps at a barbecue. They come to me in the night, born of dream fragments or of lying awake worrying about the state of the world and the creatures in it. They pop up out of books I’m reading. They lie in wait on pages of newspapers and magazines, on the TV screen, in snippets of casual conversation.
How to Write a Bad Blog Post
On one of my other group blogs, I saw a guest post recently where the author wrote a couple of lackluster paragraphs that were basically an excuse to introduce her book cover and blurb. I started reading and immediately glazed over. Needless to say, I never got to the cover or blurb. There’s lots of…
Become a Content Connoisseur in 2016
My friend, Laurence MacNaughton, shared an interesting article with me not long ago called 30 Fresh and Fun Ideas For Your Newsletter. As marketing people, Laurence and I are all over anything that helps generate valuable content for our readers, and we thought that some of the principles in the article would work for authors…