I Gained 10x More Readers Standing On The Shoulders of Giants
I’m active in a few writer groups on Facebook. The other day a video by an author who had hit the NYT and USA Today bestseller list 33 times was making the rounds. This video was of her presentation entitled “Capturing the Golden Goose: How to Sell a Bazillion...
Make It Rain: How to Sell a Bazillion Books According to Bestselling Author H.M. Ward
H.M. Ward is an unquestionably successful indie author. Her extensive backlist of YA and New Adult romance novels have sold 13 million books worldwide and she’s hit the NYT and USA Today bestseller list a combined 33 times. She shares her thoughts on how to...
Want to Speed up Your Next Writing Session? Try This One Simple Thing.
Write yourself a letter. What do I mean by that? When I finish my writing session, I leave myself a note at the bottom of the scene with bullet points of what I want to accomplish the next time I sit down to write. That’s it. Nothing magical. It’s like...
The 13th Doughnut – Cold Call by Richard Fox, a Legacy Fleet novella
You know how some bakeries give you that bonus donut if you buy a dozen? There’s actually a word for it–lagniappe. That’s what I feel like I’m getting when I read a short story set in a universe I already know and enjoy. So when I got that...
Wrote Your Hero Into A Corner? You Need A Quinjet For The Rescue
I was stuck. I needed to write a scene to get my protagonist out of a sticky situation and I didn’t know what to do. It was literally the “man in the hole” scenario where I had made my alien stronger and stronger and the situation was getting more...
Gain Superior Writing Skills With Decisive, Attainable Objectives
When I write, I am waging war. Carving out the time to write is a daily battle (as I write this, my 5 year old is having a raging tantrum), sitting in the chair is a daily battle, and the long term objective is to win the war and write the books. All the books. So I...
Making Money On Your Writing – Following Heinlein’s Rules
I had never heard of Heinlein’s Rules until I started reading Dean Wesley Smith’s blog. The five rules are pretty straight forward and I paraphrase them here: Write. Finish what you start. Don’t rewrite except to editorial order. Market your...