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Archive for October, 2011
Self-Publishing a Go Go
Yes, I’m still humming and hawing over this. Self-publishing versus mainstream, which should I choose? Could I get a book deal? Is it worth my while? Do I have the time and energy to handle all the levels of insanity of self-publishing? I don’t know, honestly. At one point, I’d have given anything to see [...]
NaNoWriMo
It’s that time of year again… National Novel Writing Month starts in November. Am I participating, I hear you ask? Am I ever. I always participate in some way. I work best when put under the most ridiculous deadlines on earth, and they don’t get much more extreme than 50,000 words in a month. My [...]
Novel Concerns
Breaking into mainstream publishing is a difficult process, but I think not for the reasons that many people assume. I think there’s a fundamental disconnect between aspiring authors and publishers that needs to be addressed: that publishing is a business, and books are the product. At a basic level, the author is producing a product. [...]
Mainstream vs. Self-Publishing: To Be or Not To Be
I’m faced with something of a conundrum. At this point, I’m pretty confident that my writing is good enough to publish. The Novel is still sitting in editing hell – and at this point, I’m eyeing up NanoWrimo to rewrite the whole damn thing, chapter by chapter – but I got the chops to knock [...]
Still alive
So, as you can see, the site is back. Mostly. I’ve changed the theme and sliced out about a third of the posts. I’ll write about writing, I guess, and some other creative stuff. I’m doing more drawing lately so that will probably go up here too. Still, the new site is up now – [...]
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