More than once, I’ve had people speak to me of “marketing” like it was something separate from “promoting”. I’m a writer, not a marketer or promoter or advertiser, so I […]
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The Very Different World of Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction is not my world. And on some level, it totally boggles me. Case in point, this weekend I just heard about the book The Goldfinch by Donna Tarrt, […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: The Beast that is Promotion
Promotion is a challenging thing for a writer to get right. You want to get word that your book is out there (or in my case, that it’s available for […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Establishing the Stakes
This past weekend I watched the five pilots that Amazon put up to gauge customer interest. It’s an interestingly democratic way to do the pilot process: bring the pilots to […]
Read moreChasing the Numbers
So, I’m not at the point, obviously, where I’m tracking book sales. Occasionally I’ll go and look at my Amazon rank for Thorn presales and wonder what that might actually […]
Read moreTen Books That Stuck With Me
Earlier this week, I got tagged over on Facebook with that “list ten books that stuck with you” meme, and I listed ten books with little additional commentary, save to […]
Read moreMetrics of Success
I’m in the early stages of my writing career where the measure of “success” can be marked with easily notable milestones. The big ones along the path still stand out. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: From the Neolithic to the Agricultural
Progressing from my initial ideas of bottom-up worldbuilding, once you’ve established your geography, your basic flora and fauna, and then had your people rise up and spread throughout the world, […]
Read moreIn Which I Become A Word-Whore; Or, Who is Marshall Ryan Maresca Character Anyway?
So, as of today, I’ve been added to the Word Whores blog, joining Jeffe Kennedy, James Moore, K.A. Krantz, Linda Robertson, Marcella Burnard and Veronica Scott. I’ll be appearing as […]
Read moreWorldbuilding and the Challenges of the Cosmopolitan City
So, I’ve finally begun the work on The Little East (aka the sequel to A Murder of Mages) in earnest. Without delving too deep into spoilers, it deals with investigations […]
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