Writing Romance
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…
Radio in the Night
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…
Fair’s Fair
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…
Autographs
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…
Buckeye Girl
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…
Fires
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.…
Gutter Talk
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…
Second Book Fever
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…
Well, Rats!
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…
Birthing a Book
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…
The Little Black Box
My mother always referred to foreshadowing as “The little black box.” In the vein of easter eggs, these hints about future events in the book are best if they are…
Ode to Rain
We are having a drought in California. I am not a summer guy, and I am not a dry-weather guy. In my longing for rain, I am reposting this rambling…
Delisting
This blog is an update on delisting books with Draft2Digital. D2D sent my request out instantly because Apple had removed Members of the Cast from their eBook list in minutes.…
Deselect
Amazon KDP allows books to be enrolled in Kindle Select, making the book eligible for Kindle Unlimited. The minimum time for a book to take part in Kindle Select is…
When Can We Expect Your Next Book?
I take it as a high compliment when folks ask, “When can we expect your next book?” I look at self-published YA writers like Cookie O’Gorman and Kelsie Stelting and…