Biz

Supplementing Your Fiction Habit

POD and Self-Publishing

The Games People Play

Recently, I watched with a mixture of amusement and pathos as a Christian author conducted an Amazon blitz. Don’t know what an Amazon blitz is? It’s one of those games people play to simulate, and hopefully stimulate, success. The rules of the Amazon blitz game are thus: Conduct a synchronized book launch on multiple Websites/blogs, perhaps offer some prizes for people who register, and...

Bookclubs

Mugs N Muffins Book Club

The Book Club Network (TBCN) is a great place for lots of book fun. We run contests, let you know about new book releases, and connect readers and authors. A few of the clubs hold online book discussions with authors and share it on their club pages so everyone can enjoy it.

Word For Words

The Deep Dive: Editing for Story Depth

Just as relationships don’t develop depth until after year one, so, too, stories don’t really develop until draft two. I’m increasingly convinced of this. Blame it on my development editor background. Or that article about literary fiction author Charles Baxter in The Writer’s Chronicle. Whatever.

Supplementing Your Habit

The Short Piece

Happy March, everyone! What a glorious time of year! Here in the South, the cold weather is behind us. Glimpses of spring are everywhere! This is the perfect season to discuss a new approach to making money with your writing. After all, the rebirth of this fabulous season could very...