Writing and Publishing: Twitshot
As you may know, I am trying to create a network on Twitter with the goal of letting people get to know me a little better and eventually take a chance and read my books. I am, by nature, a…
Writing and Publishing: Marketing Strategies with the Help of Robin Hutton
I met Robin Hutton on Twitter. Immediately he messaged me a link to his webpage. I went ahead and downloaded his book “17 Self-Publishing Bullets for Writers”. I have found that Twitter is filled with authors who want to be known and want…
Writing and Publishing: Revising “Vocation”
Last night I finished revising “Vocation”, the fourth of five short stories I’m preparing to be published in the collection I will name “A Few Drops of Fantasy”. “Vocation” came to be while I began to wonder why certain people…
Writing and Publishing: Comparing the Old Times Publishing with the New
I started writing when I was in college (about 20 years ago). Back then, the internet was still very new and the Kindle, as we know it now, didn’t exist. I wrote mostly on paper, too. I used dozens of…
Writing and Publishing: Paying for a Book Cover on Fiverr
Well, I’ve been doing some more research, and now I am going to try to pay for someone to design a cover. So, I got on Fiverr (a website of freelance who offer their services) and paid $11 to have…
Writing and Publishing: Answering Questions
In my search to become a more known person digitally, I came across this video hosted by author Ann Eckhart. You can find her blog at seeannsave.com. Ann is a nonfiction author I discovered by looking around ways to better market…
Writing and Publishing: Inspiration Part 4 – Anime
I don’t watch as much anime as I used to. I remember growing up watching cartoons that were anime, although I had no idea they were. Years passed before I realized they were; I also learned the difference between anime…
Writing and Publishing: Revising “Ordinary Problems”
I have finished revising the third of the short stories I will publish in my collection A Few Drops of Fantasy.This is one of my favorite stories, it’s called Ordinary Problems and it’s about two friends getting together to discuss their problems about…
Writing and Publishing: Becoming a Goodreads Author
I published my first book about 2 months ago, but only this week did it occurred to me to see if it was listed on Goodreads. I have no idea where Goodreads takes its data base, but I am beginning…
Writing and Publishing: Becoming a Member of Amazon’s Author Central
Once you publish a book on Amazon, you are a candidate to start your own Author Webpage on Author Central. For some reason I didn’t do it until recently, but my advise now that I know what I know –…