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Book 2, THE RETURNING, COMING June, 2012!!
Upcoming guests on #sffwrtcht
5/16/12—Erin Hoffman 5/23/12— Faith Hunter 5/30/12—SB Knight 6/06/12—Sam Sykes 6/13/12—Peter V. Brett
You know, watching Celebrity Apprentice, a guilt pleasure, has actually brought back unpleasant memories this year of my days working in theatre and why I burned out. There’s something that happens when you get creative people together that can be very unpleasant: a clash of the titans, I mean, egos. If you’re artistic, you’re passionate, if [ Read More ]
Well, my first book tour and first ever blog tour was a lot of fun. Truly a blast. And I think all the bloggers and readers who participated. The comments were encouraging and helpful. The posts were fun to write and participate in. Timing was fairly smooth in most cases. And I think we provided [ Read More ]
Next weekend I will be apeparing at the two day MCC-Longview Community College Literary Festival with other authors of diverse genres and backgrounds. Here’s my schedule. I will be around much of Saturday and in and out Friday because of my panel being late afternoon. Location: MCC-LONGVIEW 500 SW Longview Road, Lee’s Summit, Missouri 64081-2105 [ Read More ]
Arguably, one of the most effective ways for book marketing these days is the blog tour. Statistics show that most readers need to hear about your book three different times before they think seriously about buying it. You may have different experiences once you have a fan base, but at least starting out, those are [ Read More ]
If you’re like me, you may have been a long time fan who rarely or even never went to Cons. So much of the mainstream publicity surrounding Cons leaves it kind of mysterious about what’s going on. Panels? Is that lectures? Who wants to pay for that. I had enough in college, thanks. Or even [ Read More ]
I’ve spent a lot of time studying and designing websites the past ten years. I’ve done so for Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, non-profits and individuals. I’ve done it for myself. With the rapidity of change on the World Wide Web, there are constant lessons to be learned. But my author website has grown in [ Read More ]
This blog is focused on writing–craft, business and careers. And part of any successful writing career is networking. When you work in a creative business, you run into a lot of people whose ideas and approaches differ from your own. Not only their approaches to life but to art, politics, religion, etc. My being a [ Read More ]
I keep putting this off but I have to blog something this week and I really don’t know why I haven’t just gotten down to it. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to acknowledge that World Fantasy Con is over. So fantastic an experience was it that I wish it could have gone on much [ Read More ]
World Fantasy is still a whirlwind for me, and I am in definite withdrawal. I will post more reflections on this as I have time to process, but I will say that 30 minutes chatting with Tom Doherty in which he asked “when are you going to send us something,” 2 hours chatting with Mike [ Read More ]
In another day, I will be departing for World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio to meet up with 950 or so other authors, editors, publishers, artists and fans in the professional speculative fiction business. This is only my second con and my first major con, so, naturally, I am very excited, but most exciting of [ Read More ]
