Category: publishing
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Book Promo: our love\hate relationship
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Would you turn down a $175,000 prize to avoid having to do promotional activities? That’s exactly what US writer Helen DeWitt did in April. It made the news. I’ve been reading through her blog posts about this, and, without passing any judgement, she seems highly stressed by a series of…
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Fun with Podcast Interviews
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“She finds out that a lot of our Earth history isn’t necessarily what we have been led to believe.” Author How do you talk about yourself? When I was invited to be on a podcast featuring indie authors recently, the first thing I did was research into how not to…
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The Spectre of Book Banning
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I remember watching reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show on television when I was younger and thinking how silly it was to show Rob and Laura Petrie sleeping in twin beds. Clearly they’d had sex in order to have their son Ritchie, but the show was produced while the…
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The salty path of veracity
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Tis the season for publishing debacles, apparently. Just a few weeks ago the story broke that a list of great books for summer reading, published by major newspapers, contained books that didn’t actually exist. The writer had used AI to do the research, and it had made things up. This…
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Comic Con Pandemonium
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Every year, May 8th celebrates Make a Book Day. It challenges people to ‘channel their inner author’. Well, five years ago I did just that. I had no idea what would happen when I began setting down my idea for a genre-crossing, off-trend urban fantasy/sci-fi trilogy. But nothing is ever…
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On hiatus this week
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Must get the book uploaded this week in order to have printed copies for the big Comic Con launch! See you next week; enjoy the long weekend.
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Anti-Boredom Month: I have the solution!
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Is July a boring month? I guess it depends on your perspective. I don’t love the summer, as a season – it’s generally oppressively hot and humid where I live. But the month of July does include a couple bits of excitement, for me anyway: 1) stores start selling Halloween…
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Let’s eat Grandma vs Let’s eat, Grandma
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The final proofread/edit of a novel. It’s the thing writers dread. We start with hope, that our text will be perfect, and clean and delightful – and then we come across the dreaded typo, or a phrase that contradicts a previous one, that just glare at us off a page.…
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Hot tips from my first Book Launch Party
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My launch party was a mixture of greatness and controlled chaos. I’ll explain that. I’ve done a lot of event planning in my time, and had every detail worked out, on a substantial spreadsheet — or so I thought. Actually, all my planning went…well, as planned 😉 Where I lost…
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Down to the wire!
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Today my hubby and I checked out the venue for my launch party on Sunday, mainly to see what type of coffee machine they’d be letting us use (because good hot coffee, and tea, are critical!). Mosquitoes are out and I’ve posted warnings for guests who want to stroll the…