The writing business is a tough one. It eats unwary writers for breakfast and smears the leavings over computer screens and scraps of paper for the wind to blow away. A writer’s world is full of politics and trolls, reviews and rejections, market trends and genre crashes, not to mention the self doubt and despair involved in trying to transform that brilliant but elusive idea into reasonably coherent prose.
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The Winner of Barbara Graham’s Book Giveaway
The winner of a copy of Barbara Graham‘s novel Murder by Sunlight: The Charity Quilt is Jacqueline Seewald Congratulations, Jacqueline
Twenty Years of Conference Memories
by Karen Duvall I had such a blast at the Colorado Gold Conference last weekend. It brought back memories of the very first Gold I attended in 1994. Twenty years. Damn, I feel old. I think I’ve only ever missed one conference in all these years and that’s because I moved to Oregon and the…
Get BIG By Going Small – The Top Five Reasons To Publish With A Small Press
By Aaron Ritchey So once again, I was talking to someone about writing and publishing. Why do I always get myself into these conversations? Anyhow, we were talking big press, small press, and indie publishing. Sidenote. I got chastised the other day by someone who said that indie publishing and self-publishing were two different things…
So You Think You Can Write
One of my favorite TV shows is So You Think You Can Dance. I watch the episodes streamed on Hulu.com because I’m never able to catch them at the time they’re televised. While watching the show the other night, I noticed some similarities between dance as an art form, and writing. Dance is an art,…