I’ve always written historical fiction, mainly romance, which required a great deal of in-depth research, digging around in old documents, looking at ancient maps, reading tattered journals, even finding out what they ate that last night on the Titanic. Google was my very best friend. But after the latest “thanks but no thanks e-mail” I’ve…
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Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About Your Readers
As a writer, we research. It’s what we do. We research settings. Disorders. Things that go bump in the night. Urban and suburban legends and the occasional garden gnome murder spree. We know what the height of fashion was in 1723 and who wore it best. We know our guns. Our poisons. And the quickest…
Tweetleedee, Tweetleedum: Give Us Your Twitter Link
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…
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,…