By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer Listen closely, for I am about to tell you a publishing secret no one else wants you to know. Are you ready? Here goes. Not everything a writer writes is good. Shocking, right? J.K. Rowlings didn’t sit down one day and pound out a thousand pages of Harry Potter the first…
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Dancing Away that Author Envy
by Jeffe Kennedy On one of my author loops recently, a number of people were gnashing teeth over their lack of success in the publishing world. From the publisher declining to publish the rest of the books in their series, to poor sales, to perceived favoritism for “special” authors – they felt they’d gotten a…
Scrub Your Mindscape Clean … by Mark Stevens
Move away from the stack of books you slowly acquired ever since you first had the thought that you might want to write fiction. (Spoiler alert: all those books pretty much all say the same thing. They are as repetitive as magazines about how to swing a golf club. Or how to diet.)
The Perfect Writerly Advice … by Julie Kazimer
This post was previously published on August 27, 2013 For the last week I’ve racked my brain to come up with a blog post for the ages, one which will be sheared into the mind of every reader. In the end I think I tore something vital, and finally came up with a post worthy…
Getting the Most Out of the RMFW Colorado Gold Conference
By Mike Befeler Writers conferences are a blast. Having attended a number of different ones, the RMFW Colorado Gold Conference ranks up there right at the top. This will be my twelfth year, and I get something new out of each one. Here are my thoughts on getting the most out of the conference. 1….