We’ve seen all these phenomenal books take off to best seller status – The Da Vinci Code, Gone Girl, Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Gray – and now there’s mutterings within the writing community about what the next “big thing” will be. Well, those mutterings never cease, but it’s a new year and therefore new…
Tag: Karen Duvall
Adventures in Self Publishing
By Karen Duvall Self-publishing continues to be a hot topic among writers and just when I think I’ve heard enough, there’s more I need to learn. I dipped my toe into the self-publishing pool for the first time about a year and a half ago. The water was ice cold and I ran away screaming,…
Write Deliberate Dialogue
By Karen Duvall We’re deliberate about everything we write, so why should dialogue be any different? Here’s the thing: Remember when you wrote your first story? As soon as your characters started talking it became a “wow” moment. The words flew onto the page as if your fictional people had taken on a life of their own….
On a Quest for a Good Book
About a year ago I decided to limit my reading diet to self-published books. Not forever, just until I found some new favorite authors to follow. I really want to support the self-published community as much as possible and figured I’d have a strong list of auto-buys by now. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. I know…
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…