By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer From the title you’d guess that I was about to tell you how to murder someone. But I’m not. At least not really. This post is about reality in fiction. No, really dear NSA (who can still read my meta data, or is that my mind thanks to the Patriot Act…
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Never Let Them See You Sweat: Hot Chicks in Leather
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer According to The Wall Street Journal (my go to for all bookie news. No, really. I only look at the pictures), “On the average, a book store browser spends eight seconds looking at the front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover.” What does that mean for an author? …
Long Live the Oldest Profession: Pimping Your Book
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer Since none of my previous published novels have hit the bestseller lists, for which I blame you (you know who you are), I decided to try a new marketing approach for The Fairyland Murders – Blog Tours. Not the kind I set up for myself, on blogs I’d visited seven times already,…
Setting Up Your Goals – Make Your Bed and Lie in it!
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer If you’re anything like me, and I know you are, your New Year’s resolution lasted until January 3rd. The 2nd if it involved not eating cake. Thankfully, for the sake of humanity, most of our writerly resolutions do not involve the consumption of baked goods. However, they do include the dreaded…
One Last Post of 2014 — Ten Things I Learned This Year
I learned a lot of writerly things this past year, some good, some not so great. But they are lessons I feel that are worthy of sharing with my fellow writers.