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Jun.20.2009
You've decided to blog. Wonderful!
After a few posts, sit back, and ask yourself these questions:
1.) Why am I blogging? To create an author platform.
2.) What am I hoping to gain from blogging? Followers (potential buyers) that will revisit my site.
3.) Who am I targeting for a viewing audience...
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Apr.30.2009
1. Some people take a writing workshop solely for social reasons
2. Writers are supposed to be able to ignore dirty dishes and laundry
3. There will always be at least one person in the group who talks non-stop about herself
4. There will also be a person who does not know what the terms ''...
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Jan.13.2009
Stepping out of my genre
Not long ago my agent presented me with a challenge I wasn’t sure I could accept. Parties I cannot name here decided to assemble an anthology to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone TV show. She said they wanted to get this thing into bookstores in a hurry...
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Dec.20.2008
Libraries and bookstores used to be set up with a mystery section, a western section, a science fiction section, sometimes a romance section, and then all the rest of the novels. That’s what mine are — “one of all the rest”. Though that isn’t a genre. Drats.
When did we become so concerned with...
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Dec.11.2008
A friend asked me why I liked mysteries and to recommend “three mystery type books that I think typify the genre, yet at the same time represent the finer points of it…” Nice, huh? This friend wants to familiarize himself with the genre… So, here goes.
I had a long long list of authors I like and...
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Nov.26.2008
The fifth stop on my round-the-world virtual book tour for The White Road and Other Stories is New Zealand author Tim Jones' blog, Books in the Trees. We're chatting about interstitital fiction, fiction which falls between genres... as well as books, trees, and the number 27! A taster:
Tim: If...
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Nov.15.2008
I've done several book events in the past week wrapping up the tour for 14. Two book clubs, which is always fun, a panel for the Women's National Book Association (WNBA) Nashville chapter, and a talk to my local Sisters in Crime chapter. Before my SinC talk, I attended a meeting of my local...
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Oct.20.2008
Words and Music: An Interview with David Niall Wilson [23 August 2005]
by Nikki Tranter PopMatters Books Editor
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We go together, you and me. Like words and music. — Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare), Eddie and...
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Jun.26.2008
It's a fantasy, alright! Two 21-year-old gals who met online in a discussion about the fantasy genre have authored a 400-page novel together ("Online collaboration lands young authors book deal," by Murray Langdon, http://www.globeandmail.com/, June 26, 2008). Right across the U.S....
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