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Book Review: Book Marketing Is Dead

Cover of book titled Book Marketing Is Dead by Derek Murphy

How do you market a self-published book into a best-seller? Start with the absolute best book you can produce. This isn’t really a new idea–marketing experts have long been touting the importance of having a good cover design, professional editing, and excellent back copy–but it doesn’t end there. Author Derek…

Book Rec: FAE – anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish

Book reviews aren’t my mainstay here on the blog, but I like to tell people about books I enjoyed, and I have to say that FAE is one of my favorite reads this summer. I read it just after it released, and weeks later, some of the stories are still sticking with…

My new addiction

When I learned we were losing our Staples in my town, I thought I would go into withdrawal. And I guess I have, sort of…except that I’ve found a drug to replace Staples. It’s called JetPens, and they’ve made a lot of money from me lately. Japan really is the…

I Can Quit Anytime

My town recently lost a precious commodity. A cherished landmark really. Well, I cherished it, at least. And I’m still in the denial stage of grief. Our Staples store closed on March 1. Please bow your head with me for a moment of silence. In the month of warning we…

The Solution to Snow

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This is what my drive home from work looked like today. Since then we’ve had probably 6 inches of snow, and more is on the way. Here is my answer to that: Because cats are perfect little space heaters.

Sunday Snippet: Snowplows and Sixth Street

With the crazy snow coming down today, I thought this was an appropriate snippet. It’s from the story I’m currently working on–an urban fantasy set here in Central Indiana. One of the characters featured in this story is a character who appears in several of my other urban fantasy stories,…

Never Plan a Road Trip During NaNoWriMo

Oops, I forgot to tell you guys what NaNoWriMo project I picked. I decided to go with my urban fantasy story that wants to be a novel. It involves a lot of small-town Indiana settings and characters I really like. It also has an overwhelmingly female cast. It’s a lot…

The NaNoWriMo Conundrum

Ten years ago I signed up for NaNoWriMo and wrote the novel I’m currently querying. I took this strange, new approach to novel-writing and called it a vacation–I took a vacation from what I usually wrote, which is epic fantasy, and decided to experiment with urban fantasy. I allowed myself…

Calling All Non-Artists

I know some very talented people who write and also draw or paint. Some of my favorite writers even write, draw, and sing (Maggie Stiefvater, I’m looking at you!). And some of them seem to only require about four hours of sleep per night. (Laura VanArendonk Baugh, I’m looking at…

Back That File Up!

I’m privileged to own two Windows computers as well as a netbook on which I’m running Xubuntu Linux. One of the Windows computers is a Windows 8 laptop I got in December (and which I share with my mom at times). The other is a Vista machine I got early…

Category: A Writer’s Life

Book Review: Book Marketing Is Dead

Book Rec: FAE – anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish

My new addiction

I Can Quit Anytime

The Solution to Snow

Sunday Snippet: Snowplows and Sixth Street

Never Plan a Road Trip During NaNoWriMo

The NaNoWriMo Conundrum

Calling All Non-Artists

Back That File Up!

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