I’m happy to report that a flash fiction piece I had written, entitled “Prey” will be published on http://pseudopod.org/ tomorrow. This piece was really fun to write; it is a Lovecraftian-horror scene written from the mind of a bird of prey. I had submitted it to Pseudopod months ago, after winning an Honorable Mention through […]
Year: 2008
POD People
Beating the Print-on-Demand Stigma POD People. Seems like they’re everywhere all of a sudden. Thousands of authors are publishing their books via print-on-demand, but only a very small percentage of them find any kind of success. Why? POD People must not only act as author, but also publisher, advertiser, editor, agent and graphic designer. The […]
Hone your Writing Skills – Take a Free Class!
When I was going to college, online courses were not really accessible to me as a student. The channel I could go through to “try before I decide” was either the local technical college or places like the UW-Extension office, both of which you have to pay for. One of the great debates about building […]
Highlights from Previous Seminars: Freelance Writing 101
Digging through the archive of handouts and seminar presentations, I thought I’d post the notes from one of the roundtables I participated in. What is a freelance writer? An independent contractor “for hire” A savvy business owner Has great “time-management” skills Knows what they are worth Has realistic expectations and goals A qualified individual performing […]
Marketing 101: What has Changed for Novelists Selling their Books
Straight out of the comments from this previous post about writing unconventional fantasy settings, author Joe Cooke asked: If we write stories that are outside the bounds of the tried-and-true, how do we get them to market? Dear readers, that is the million dollar question and one that I have heard many, many times. It’s […]