Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer’s Digest and current columnist for Publishers Weekly defines author platform in her wonderfully succinct way, as “an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach.” For many of us, the definition above may feel as if we’re in this platform building project all…
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If Only I Had One More Hour a Day…
I’ve been struggling to juggle a lot of things lately which is stressful enough, but now I’m being barraged with NaNoRiMo e-mails, vacation requests, and holiday planning schedules. After Colorado Gold I had three requests for chapters, one of which turned in to a request for a full read. What do you think I want to…
Rocky Mountain Writer #62
FOUND: A Short-Story Sampler And now for something completely different, audio samples from the new RMFW short story anthology Found. There’s a little something for everyone from these seven stories, all submitted to meet the anthology’s theme, “Sometimes things are better off lost. And sometimes they were never meant to disappear. Either way, when they’re…
Write Your Novel Like A Noob…Or Not
As I write this, here in my 38th year, I’m struck by a number of what some people might consider failures, and yet others might see as learning experiences. To not put too fine a point on it, this is the writer’s experience in an online nutshell. As for me, I’ve taken several cracks at…
Live Longer–a no-cal way to add years to your life!
It’s time to read, and write good books for your fans. In a recent Yale study, researchers found that avid readers may live as much as two years longer than non-readers. Details of the study It followed over three thousand people over a 12-year period. They were placed in three groups. Group One was a…