With 2018 already upon us, you’ve likely already sold three books to your favorite publisher, wrote five more, and single handily solved the fiction conflicts of 2017. What? You haven’t? What’s wrong with you? Half of January is already in the books. Get moving! This is one of my issues with January. It expects too…
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Step Right Up
“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up! The show’s about to begin! For the price of one thin dime see wonders beyond imagining. Sales beyond your wildest dreams and begin earning good money right out of the box! Hurry, hurry, hurry.” Yeah. No. P.T Barnum gets the credit for “There’s a sucker born every minute” but…
Rocky Mountain Writer #108
Pat Stoltey & Wishing Caswell Dead Pat Stoltey’s fourth novel comes out in just a few short weeks (Dec. 20) and it’s been quite a ride. Revised and revised some more, Pat says that one point she realized she had written the life out of her characters. So she backed up and started over again…
You are very real … and beautiful!
I’m at that scary stage of writing. I have just started a new novel. I have envisioned the ending, the flow of the story past the inciting incident and turning points, and it’s time to write that first chapter. Magic happens when those first words are placed on the page. I welcome them, and like…
Have You Googled Today?
I just Googled myself. I’ve done it now and then, and I’ve set up a Google alert (but all that does is tell me someone with my name got arrested for cruelty to animals, which really isn’t what I had in mind), but I was reading an article on making sure you have a “platform”…