By Liesa Malik Gasp! As storytellers and novelists, the word “nonfiction” can sound very constraining. It conjures up all sorts of nasty images, like: Deadlines Pressure Talking to, or interviewing total strangers Taking notes when people talk too fast Maybe even boring topics to write about. But after over twenty years in marketing, and with…
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Stay with the FLOW
By D A Gordon During the last twelve months I have edited, critiqued and judged a bunch of stories. This is partly due to the fact that I belong to five writing groups and I’m a contest judge. Because I’m a semi-retired English teacher and technical writer, I tend to scan for grammatical errors when…
Writing and Juggling
By Kristi Helvig In light of the upcoming launch for my sci-fi debut, BURN OUT, someone asked me in an interview about how I managed to balance my work as a psychologist, my writing obligations, and parenting two young children. I laughed because ‘balanced’ is the last word I’d use to describe myself right now….
Amazon Ranking: From Loser to Bestseller and Back Again
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer *The words/numbers I am about to bore you with are all true. – You can trust me. I would never lie. Amazon…*sigh* Did anyone else get a little flutter just saying the word? Are your hands starting to sweat? If not, then you probably haven’t launched a book recently. You see,…
The Importance of a Good Beta Reader
by Katriena Knights If you’ve seriously pursued writing for any amount of time, you know you can’t be trusted to judge your own work. Scenes that seem wonderfully constructed in our heads are completely incomprehensible to other people. Glorious flights of poetic prose are actually pools of verbal quicksand from which no reader will ever…