By Mary Gillgannon When people find out I’m a writer, they often ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” The implication is that it must be a struggle to come up with things to write about. Frankly, that’s never been my problem. My problem is finding the hours and days and weeks and months (and…
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TOP TEN LIST: Things Overheard At A Book Release Party
By Kevin Paul Tracy Here is a list of the top ten things overheard at a book release party. 10. “My wife loves your books! Can you sign it to her: Roger Smith?” 9. “Is the author someone famous, or just a writer?” 8. “Yes, the author signed it, we couldn’t stop him. If you…
The Easy Button
By Terri Benson My day job includes coaching start-up businesses at a Business Incubator, and as a writer, I counsel people who want to write. Recently one of my clients opened the meeting with “I’ve started on a book. What I need is advice on how to find an editor who will give me a…
Guest Post from A Beer for the Shower: The Ten Commandments of Writerly Collaboration
By A Beer for the Shower Hi folks. We’re Brandon and Bryan. We co-write a lot of things together. Sometimes it’s web-comics. Sometimes it’s novels. And sometimes it’s a product dissatisfaction email for that Pineapple Slicer-N-Dicer 3000 that only succeeded in coring a left arm down to the elbow nub. But whatever the writing project…
So You Want to Publish An Anthology? Read On…
By Nikki Baird, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Anthology Chair Anthologies have experienced something of a renaissance, thanks to the indie publishing market. Lots of writers have short stories that they’ve written over the years, and in a lot of cases, the publishing rights to those stories revert back to authors fairly quickly, so there aren’t…