By Aaron Ritchey I just finished a biography on Johnny Cash, and love is a burning a thing. Also, the book business has a lot of similarities to the music industry. This is what I learned: 1) Success can be a whole lotta luck — For example, Johnny Cash moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1955. Summer…
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Emotional Barrier in Fiction: The Most Important Barrier For You To Cross (Part One)
Written by Tiffany Lawson Inman Emotions play a big role in writing fiction. That’s not a big secret, right? Nope, but what I say next might surprise you. One of the many things I learned during my years as an actor is that most people, including writers, are afraid of their own emotions. Feeeeeeeeeeelings. Oh yes, those pesky feelings….
Death Becomes You: What Will Your Legacy Be?
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer I’m going blind. The eye doctor told me this a few weeks ago. I have diabetic retinopathy which is basically uncontrolled bleeding behind my eyes from half a lifetime of having type 1 diabetes. Retinopathy leads to blindness. It might take a year, it might be five, ten, or twenty years….
How to Make Your Editor Happy
By Katriena Knights Nobody wants one, but everybody needs one. Maybe it sounds like a riddle Bilbo Baggins should have tossed Gollum’s way, but it’s really just a fact of the publishing business. Everybody needs an editor. Even the editors. I’ve worked as an editor for almost ten years, in addition to writing my own…
The winner of a copy of The Last Heir by Chuck Greaves
Congratulations to Liz Burns Who will receive a copy of The Last Heir by Chuck Greaves