Recently, I posted two possible covers for an upcoming endeavor on Facebook, asking for, yes, you guessed it, the dreaded ADVICE. You see, I love hearing thoughts on cover art, on manuscripts, on marketing as well as how to live a better, more productive writerly life. Advice can be the best thing EVER. And then…
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2017 Colorado Gold Mentors & Special Guests
Things are coming together at Conference HQ! The proposals are all in and the proposal committee are making their selections for the workshops and panels we will be offering at the upcoming Colorado Gold Conference. If you submitted a proposal, notifications will be sent on or before April 20. Be sure to check the conference…
Covers Matter…A Lot
All day long at my job at the library I watch people pick out books. Step one: the cover or the author’s name (if they’ve read them previously or heard something about them) catches their eye. Step two: they pick up the book and read the cover blurb to find out what the book is…
Perspective Lost and Found
Sometimes, if you take a break from your current WIP for an extended period of time, you lose focus on it. The next time you sit down it becomes hard to recapture the tone, the pace, the perspective on the work that you had when you started it. This can sometimes be especially true for…
Speaking of Podcasts…
Mark Stevens, RMFW’s podcast guru, published a post yesterday that mentioned his broken podcast microphone, and that reminded me we haven’t mentioned those podcasts here on the blog for quite a while. You do listen to the podcasts, right? I mean, you are aware that RMFW has a series of excellent podcasts for your education…