Whether you’re an Indie writer or a Hybrid writer who might someday want to try a Kickstarter, or just somebody who is interested, here are six things I’ve learned about Kickstarters in the last few weeks.
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Publishing, The Avenue of Broken Dreams: Getting Back to the Basics
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer Being an author is awesome. That being said, it can also be humbling as hell. I learned this very lesson this past week. I was wearing a smile from ear to ear after receiving a royalty check for The Assassin’s Heart. Then WHAM! I taught a class at the Thornton Recreation…
Guest Post: Daven Anderson “I survived Colorado Gold, and you can, too!”
By Daven Anderson As we find ourselves enjoying another lovely fall season in colorful Colorado, some of you reading this may be lamenting that the only “Colorado Gold” you won last month were the fallen leaves you raked from your backyard. You didn’t win. You didn’t final. Agents aren’t camping out in your backyard, contracts…
On a Quest for a Good Book
About a year ago I decided to limit my reading diet to self-published books. Not forever, just until I found some new favorite authors to follow. I really want to support the self-published community as much as possible and figured I’d have a strong list of auto-buys by now. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. I know…
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Three – Some Rules
By Jeanne C. Stein I know, I know. I, more than anyone else, hate it when someone says there are “rules” to writing, especially since exceptional writer W. Somerset Maugham warns: There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. And of course, for every rule we set there…