Here’s the chance for all you Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers to share the link to your Twitter ID (and we’ll hope everyone who visits this blog post follows the link to your page and follows you on Twitter). First share your name and @ ID — as in: Patricia Stoltey @PStoltey Then sign in to…
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Rocky Mountain Writer #37
J.L. Abramo & Brooklyn Justice J. L. Abramo was born in the seaside paradise of Brooklyn, New York on Raymond Chandler’s fifty-ninth birthday. His seventh novel was just published and it’s set in the town where he was born. Brooklyn Justice is a series of interconnected stories featuring private eye Nick Ventura. Abramo is…
The Panic
Do you get panicked about your writing or your writing career? Do you think you’re the only one? Most of us feel the panic from newbies to old veterans of the publishing business. The panic particularly hits me and my friends when we’re behind deadline, of course. Or at the end of a contract where…
Beware of Hidden Dangers in Short-Form Publishing Contracts
Authors have a lot to watch out for when reading a publishing contract, but one of the most common dangers is actually invisible: the protections typically missing from short-form contracts. Standard publishing contracts run 10-30 pages, in little type, with wording that ranges from “difficult” to “possibly penned in Hieroglyphs.” Most authors don’t know how to approach the dense legalese,…
Getting Your Priorities Straight
“We all have the same number of hours in the day.”
I don’t know about you, but when somebody says this, I generally want to kick them in the shins or slap them with a large, dead fish.
It always seems to get said with a self righteous air, as if the person uttering the words has everything in their life perfectly under control. They are never late for work. Never miss a deadline. Never find themselves scrambling to fulfill an obligation at the very last second.