This month I’m thinking about content marketing. It’s all the rage. It’s one of the key squares in Buzzword Bingo – Marketing Edition. It’s the thing you do in social media where you put out interesting and relevant content to attract customers for your products. I wasn’t able to write that with a straight face….
Category: General Interest
The Excitement and Terror of Deadlines
Since small publishers don’t usually offer for your book until it’s finished, I haven’t had a deadline in years. Now, after signing with a new publisher, I have one, and I’m a little unnerved. With 17 books published, you’d think I would take this all in stride. But having a deadline (two, in fact) is…
Marketing Critical Mass
I once went to a book signing of a prominent author (someone quite famous and established, but I won’t name-drop). As the last one in line to get his signature, I was surprised and pleased when he said, “Looks like you’re the last one. Tell you what, I’m starving, let’s go get a bite to…
Time
I’m in the process of cleaning up Gary Reilly’s ninth Asphalt Warrior novel before sending it off to our eagle-eyed editor for the thorough polish. If you don’t know, Gary Reilly was a close friend of mine who had one story published in his lifetime—in 1977. That story, The Biography Man, was published in The Iowa…
The View from the Editor’s Desk
Over the last three months, my co-editor Natasha Watts and I have had the honor of reading 78 short fiction submissions to RMFW’s 2020 anthology. Before taking on this job, I submitted countless stories, poems, and articles to countless magazines, journals, and anthologies. I learned the ropes of navigating a contract, working through revisions with…