By Kristi Helvig In light of the upcoming launch for my sci-fi debut, BURN OUT, someone asked me in an interview about how I managed to balance my work as a psychologist, my writing obligations, and parenting two young children. I laughed because ‘balanced’ is the last word I’d use to describe myself right now….
Category: General Interest
Amazon Ranking: From Loser to Bestseller and Back Again
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer *The words/numbers I am about to bore you with are all true. – You can trust me. I would never lie. Amazon…*sigh* Did anyone else get a little flutter just saying the word? Are your hands starting to sweat? If not, then you probably haven’t launched a book recently. You see,…
The Importance of a Good Beta Reader
by Katriena Knights If you’ve seriously pursued writing for any amount of time, you know you can’t be trusted to judge your own work. Scenes that seem wonderfully constructed in our heads are completely incomprehensible to other people. Glorious flights of poetic prose are actually pools of verbal quicksand from which no reader will ever…
A Few Upcoming April Events
The Connection Between POV and Your Storyteller’s Voice presented by Karen Duvall | Monday, April 7 thru April 20 | Yahoo! Groups | Online Class The Writer’s Conquest: Marketing for Today’s Author presented by Thomas A. Fowler | April 12, 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. | Sam Gary Branch Library, Denver, CO | Free Program
Juggling Contracts, Part 3: Beware the Sub-Clauses!
By Susan Spann Last month’s RMFW #PubLaw post talked about contract language authors want to see when juggling multiple contracts for different types of rights. This month, we’ll take a look at the other clauses authors need to watch for. Even contracts which seem to address only limited rights sometimes contain additional terms that impact…