It’s no great secret that next to advances and royalty checks, book reviews are an author’s best friend. But getting reviews are hard to come by, and no guarantee of success. Just ask Sandra Dallas, current columnist and book critic for fifty years with the Denver Post, and who is also a successful author. “I…
Category: General Interest
Everything I Learned About Writing I learned From Johnny Cash
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…
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…