By Daven Anderson As we find ourselves enjoying another lovely fall season in colorful Colorado, some of you reading this may be lamenting that the only “Colorado Gold” you won last month were the fallen leaves you raked from your backyard. You didn’t win. You didn’t final. Agents aren’t camping out in your backyard, contracts…
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On a Quest for a Good Book
About a year ago I decided to limit my reading diet to self-published books. Not forever, just until I found some new favorite authors to follow. I really want to support the self-published community as much as possible and figured I’d have a strong list of auto-buys by now. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. I know…
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Three – Some Rules
By Jeanne C. Stein I know, I know. I, more than anyone else, hate it when someone says there are “rules” to writing, especially since exceptional writer W. Somerset Maugham warns: There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. And of course, for every rule we set there…
The Intangible Benefits of Having a Traditional Publishing Family
By Jeffe Kennedy I’ve worked with a number of editors over the years. Many of them were one-night stands – especially back in my younger days, when I wrote mainly essays and played the magazine market. While I mostly enjoyed those passing encounters – though a few were blind dates that I couldn’t wait to…
Pen and Paper? Are You Kidding Me????
By Mark Stevens I recently sparked a flutter on Twitter. I mentioned that I write by hand. Yes, full novels—start to finish. By hand. I mentioned this on Twitter and I could hear virtual jaws dropping from coast to coast. Okay, in reality, I had five or six comments along these lines: “Are you KIDDING…