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Loving A Little Love From Kirkus, indieBRAG, et al.
OK, remember my last post, about the “necessary evils of self-promotion”? Well, here we go, right here… sit back and enjoy a little “sonata for horn ensemble”… When I was prepping for the launch of my...
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Dear Goodreads Members: It’s Time To Give Some Books Away!
“This is one of those books which exceeded all my expectations. I was expecting a romance with a couple of twists to the tale but what I got was something far deeper and more satisfying… If you want a...
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Step Away From The (Misguided) Advice and Do NOT Write Four Books A Year
No matter what experts tell you, no matter what trends, conventional wisdom, social media chatter, or your friends in the Facebook writers group insist upon, do NOT write four books a year. I mean it....
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Death By EL James… a take from Tara Sparling
Tara Sparling And now for a complete change of pace: some Fifty Shades of Grey silliness from one of my favorite bloggers. Enjoy the many interpretive imaginings of this iconic tome, pulled from the...
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Sharing An Editor’s Perspective On the Quality Debate: Meet Jamie Chavez
Jamie Chavez’s Blog Banner As one who is hellbent on making sure my points, my theses, are all thoroughly clear and understood, I find that when evidence suggests I’ve not succeeded, I occasionally go...
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Beautiful Covers…some thoughts on the topic by JJ Marsh
I have a thing about book covers. They’re not only the initial calling card of a book and its author, they are the art, the statement, the quality, that sets the tone for, hopefully, what...
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Want To Help Inspire Kids To Read? I’ve Got Just the Way To Do It
If you are alive and aware in the year 2015, you know that one of the most common complaints articulated is how technology has surpassed all other avenues of entertainment for “today’s youth.” Likely...
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Sharing Some HYSTERICAL LOVE with IndieBRAG’s Stephanie Moore Hopkins
Given the many challenges of marketing indie novels in a wild and crazy industry teeming with books of every kind, I’m always grateful for those who step up with true interest and awareness of what...
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Other Humans Are Just Different Genres, Labelled Badly
I love the way book blogger Tara Sparling thinks, and her take on recent events, seen through the filter of books and wise humor, is a good one to share. Tara Sparling writes Imagine that you are a...
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Gouged by Getty OR, Don’t Know Where That Image Is From or Who Took It? DON’T...
DON’T USE!!! Consider this article a favor of sorts, a cautionary tale for bloggers, writers, social media posters, etc., who like to use images to illustrate the pieces they write and promote online:...
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That Universal Yearning: How Finding Love Became the Theme of HYSTERICAL LOVE
An interviewer asked me recently about the themes I most often employ in my writing, mentioning that love and family were central pivots around which both my novels spun. She wondered why those two...
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Hopping On the indieBRAG Christmas Blog Hop: The Little Drummer Boy, Old and New
Growing up Catholic in a small midwestern town meant the traditions of our most universal holidays were a mix of sacred and secular. Easter came not only with the solemnity and pomp of Lent and Easter...
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Honored By ‘Honorable Mention’ Win in THE MAINE REVIEW
Literary journals are like boxes of treasure. Poems, essays, memoir pieces, fiction… the best of the best coming together to regale readers with myriad choices created by some of the most thoughtful,...
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Book Review: After the Sucker Punch (With Soundtrack)
After stepping away from book promotion for a while, I’d almost forgotten the process of getting reader feedback to my work: that anticipation of knowing a review has been written and wondering, “How...
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My Marketing Sabbatical and a Change of Venue
— where I am these days… At the end of 2015, after four-plus years of relentless and seriously focused book marketing and promotion, I took a step back to assess. I looked at the results of those many...
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