Posts by George Beckman

This article is not about plot twists. It is about a twisted plot, or perhaps a plot that needs a little twisting to make it right. I am a big…

Seven months and ten days after Members of the Cast was published, it may be time for evaluation. So, I give you some statistics: I sell a book every 1.2…

Self-publishing makes you a writer, speaker, and publicist if you want readers. In an earlier blog article, I discussed Kindle Ads for books. Today we delve into Kindle Lockscreen Ads.…

I love my beta readers and critique partners, but I am a plodder. I make glacial movement through books. I am far behind in my work. I excuse this by…

Do public book talks help sales? Members of the Cast has been out six months. To be honest, sales started with a bang and have tapered off in the months…

If you clicked on this blog to find a discussion about love and sex, you will be disappointed. Today, I am thinking about writer vs. manuscript, author vs. book. Do…

I am not a poet, but in early October “the fall feeling” comes, and I know it is time to write poems. You can find a few here: Poems. I…

In Gore Vidal's Lincoln, General Grant is about to receive Lee's surrender. Lincoln says, "Let him up easy, General. Let him up easy." Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to women…

This chatty blog is not going to settle any deep problems associated with writing. I spent hours writing Members of the Cast. Days. Months. Years. There is nothing unusual about…

In the canyon, one dayWhen I was young I suppose Father had gone to workI found Mom in bed with sheetsOf typing—sheets and sheets of typing She had To Kill…

In July 1960, the summer after Margo (Members of the Cast) first saw San Dimas Canyon, it burned. I took a chaise lounge down to the flat and fell asleep.…

Finding bugs in the software I marketed was never fun. This bug appeared in the Mac version, and I had to make a “Gutter Talk” report: 9/16/2000 (Gutter Talk) The…

In the blog post, Birthing a Book, I talked about how long it can take to make a book ready for publishing. I recently bemoaned a formatting flub in the…

Self-publishing is sometimes a rocky road. I am not a perfectionist, but I like my book to be near perfect. Ha. When I was programming the grade book, PGGP, I…

Writers can become confused by homonyms. We begin with the full intention of birthing a book and end up berthing the book. Falling prey to the “Is the book good…