I attended the webinar How to Blog Meaningfully and Grow Your Audience by Jane Friedman and Writer’s Digest University. She said a list of links can drive more traffic to your blog. I’ve seen other sites do this. I visit SF Signal everyday for their SF/F/H Link Post. My resource pages have the most pageviews. I…
Book’s don’t sell themselves. A nice cover isn’t enough. The description needs to be on point. Please never, ever say, “This story is about.” Do not go on any social media and say, “I wrote a book and it’s about…” That’s boring. It screams amateur. Some people can get away with it. My advice is…
Bublish is what you make it. I talked about a book marketing site in the post Bublish Case Study. My free trial ended a couple of days ago. To recap, Bublish lets you publish excerpts of your work with Author Insights (bubbles) attached. You can share these bubbles on Twitter and Facebook. The book/bubbles are…
Multiple POV characters is like having ten voices in your head. I’m worried I got the voices mixed up. Or worse, they all sound the same. Writing ten POV characters is tiring. Sometimes I just throw stuff in because I don’t want to deal with them. In the editing stages, how do you make sure…
Me and snow had a little problem over the weekend. More on that later. Before that nasty blizzard hit Chicago, I had an amazing time at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting. I had one monster of a…let’s call it an adventure getting from my home in Brooklyn to the hotel in Chicago. I got lost 3 times….
A career molds how a character views the world. For instance, writers see stories in everything. I use job and career interchangeably because, in my series, the word career doesn’t exist. In The Sciell, I didn’t have to worry about careers. The characters lived in a small community. They didn’t have any career aspirations. Most…
My least favorite season was winter. There’s no escaping the cold and then the snow…the snow turns a 3 hour train ride into a 6 hour nightmare. It messes up roads. It turns sidewalks into ice slides. But, the snow is starting to grow on me. Until this year, I hadn’t played in it since…
So NYC is buckling down for a record breaking blizzard. I’m a bit tired of these once-in-a-lifetime storms. Anyway, Snowmageddon is upon us. Time for hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows, my tablet and a good book. Okay, food and water too. Here are my fav books for a day in. You know when books…
I want my WIP, a novella- Devortus Reigns, to take place in a different kind of fantasy world. No medieval lands, no fairy tale-like settings or the typical “dark” landscapes. If it’s a sweeping grassy plain or a towering castle or a charred land, I don’t want it. If it looks like something from Lord of the…
Thanks for your suggestion for the We Are Not The Enemy cover! I shared the first finished version in the post Behind the Cover: Another Redesign. You suggested I put the focus on “Not” instead of “We.” The author read the comments and she agreed. Putting the emphasis on “Not” wasn’t a matter of just copying and…
