Wannabe goals. We all made them for the new year, right? Unbelievably, we’re now knocking on the door to June. Often our goals are unspoken but sincere, something we know we need to accomplish to advance our writing. They inspire us for a moment then, in the face of our busy lives, we allow them…
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Rocky Mountain Writer #85
Charles Kowalski & Mind Virus We’ve got sage advice this time … all the way from Japan. Charles Kowalski a few weeks away from the release of his first novel, Mind Virus, but it’s been a long road to reach this point. And Charles knows it was all meant to be. He had just the…
Singing the Book Promotion Blues
With a new book coming out in June, I have had the pleasure—and the pain—of deciding what I need to do to get the word out. My decisions are similar to the ones anyone launching a book makes. Being realistic, there is only so much time and money, and never enough. There is also a limited…
Oh #Murphy! Thank Goodness for #Erma.
I’m usually a “the glass is half full” kind of a gal. However, I finally washed my car, (inside and outside), and then I waxed my Buddy. Buddy is just past five years old. He’s blue with a high ground clearance for vehicles in his class. Oh, hail! The frozen balls crashed into him without…
A Few Notes on Discoverability
Discoverability is one of those newish buzzwords that tries to describe the process by which a reader finds a book to read. The problem with the generally accepted view of discoverability is that the goal is not to have people discover a book. You can’t build a career on a book. As an author you…