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Indie Authors TV with Jason Matthews & Marla Miller
Indie Authors TV
Tune in this Monday, 4/29/13, to listen to 'this interviewer' being interviewed by Jason Matthews on Indie Authors TV. Topics include building my platform, going rogue with Kickstarter , defining & discussing what 'With Author' means & the ...
L Williams Gibbon: 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition
2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition
by L. William Gibbons
A couple days ago, 3/13/13, I learned that my novel, The Fourth Marker, made it to the quarterfinals in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, one of 500 titles out ...
What Defines ‘Amazon Best Seller?’
How Many Sales to Amazon Bestseller? by Jason Matthews, 3/20/13
Want to be an Amazon bestseller? Of course you do–every author does! Want to be an Amazon bestseller? Of course you do–every author does! And we’re talking about the top five of all ...
Writing Poetry: Therapeutic For Folks Fighting Cancer
The Prickly Pear Poetry Project on Publishing
By Tammi J Truax
One of the beautiful things about the work that is generated in Prickly Pear Poetry Workshops, and hopefully after participants attend them, is that it is the rawest of writing. By ...
NEW! Quick Query Critique #134: On the Border of Time Fiction/Time Travel Romance
Dear ________:
I’m seeking representation for my time travel romance, On the Border of Time.
As archivist for the Hixson Mills Historical Society, Julia Pickett is entrusted with the care and preservation of the whispered words of the past found within ...
Women, Authors & HTML: Learn Basic Coding!
Code.org is a page on Facebook writers should subscribe to. then go there and read, 10 minutes/day, just to learn terminology that right now might scare you.
It's not just students who need to get up to speed on coding. Writers ...
2013 Southern Cal Writers Conference Tasty Tidbits
Per their usual, the SCWC team pulled off another helpful conference. What I really appreciate about SCWC is its committment to meet writers where we are, on the road to publication in the 21st century. Sure, with all the new ...
Networking Writers: It Pays Off
Once again, the 2013 Southern California Writers Conference was a weekend to remember. Per my usual, I encouraged writers to collect emails and business cards-not just from 'the experts'-but from each other. You never know who you're going to meet, ...
Wes Albers: New Voice Emerging in “Cop” Fiction
Wes Albers is the author of Black & White, his debut novel that stars John Hatch, a San Diego cop who works too hard. Albers knows something about this because in addition to his writing career, Wes Albers is a long ...
The NEW Adult Fiction Genre Popping Up!
Last week, I posted this blog in Authors Popping Above the Noise about Genese Davis.
This week, Huff Post Books blogger, Jocelyn Kelley, posted this column about the 'new adult fiction genre' which defines exactly the dilemma Genese found herself in ...