Category Archives: Indie Publishing

WE ARE LIVE!

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Hi, guys! Hope you all are doing great! Been working like a mad dog behind the scenes over here…a mad dog, I tell you! Which means I hope to have more announcements coming soon. But today I am writing to … Continue reading

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I’VE BEEN INTERVIEWED!

Apologies for the the radio silence. I am working on the eleventeenth rewrite of Lookaway Dogs — it’s almost done! — so I’ve been trying to keep my nose to the grindstone and away from the pretty lights of the … Continue reading

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THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS….

While I have been been working to finalize Lookaway Dogs for publication (among a million other things — 999,999 of them Toddler-related), the Kindle All-Stars Machine has been grinding tirelessly towards the launch of the first Kindle All-Stars anthology, Resistance … Continue reading

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LOSING MY RELIGION: SOME NOT-SO-FINAL THOUGHTS

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I started writing this series as a way to explain my change in direction as an author. The indie movement has been a complete game changer for me. Besides the instant gratification of self-publishing and a fair shot at making … Continue reading

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LOSING MY RELIGION, PART 5: YOU ARE ALL POWERFUL

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A Level Playing Field Really pay attention to this: You are competing on the same level playing field as most other authors right now. This bears repeating. You are competing on the same level playing field as most other authors … Continue reading

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LOSING MY RELIGION, PART 4: BLIND FAITH

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Even with the indie revolution firing cannonballs at the floundering megaship of traditional publishing and raking in the doubloons, writers are afraid to jump ship…even unpublished writers who have nothing to lose. Why is this? Blind faith. It’s understandable why … Continue reading

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LOSING MY RELIGION, PART 3: CAN YOU REALLY AFFORD TO TAKE A VOW OF POVERTY?

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  ~ How Much Do Traditionally Published Authors Make? ~ In the 1989 release, “Beyond the Bestseller: A Literary Agent Takes You Inside the Book Business,” literary agent Richard Curtis writes in the chapter entitled, “P&L”: “Others among us may … Continue reading

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LOSING MY RELIGION, PART 2: THE NEW PROMISED LAND

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~ How to Get to the Top of Mt. Olympus ~ Just like most other writers, having been raised on the romantic and mystical view of the publishing process, I have The Dream. There are many variations of The Dream, … Continue reading

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LOSING MY RELIGION, PART 1: A CONVERSION OF FAITH

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~ I Was Raised Traditional Orthodox ~ As a teenager I fed voraciously on my monthly issue of Writer’s Digest, and I read to pieces my copy of Richard Curtis’s, “Beyond the Bestseller: A Literary Agent Takes You Inside the … Continue reading

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IT’S OFFICIAL…

…Harlan Ellison, the inspiration for Kindle All Stars, will also be a contributing author! Huzzah!! Here is the current roster of authors so far: Laurie-Ellen Blackthorne Simon John Cox Miles Cressman Harlan Ellison Alan Dean Foster Keri Knutson M.R. Mathias … Continue reading

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