Come along with me on The Mirror’s Road

January 18, 2010 Insider's View

I’ve always been a fan of both diversification and experimentation when it comes to my writing career. From my soon-to-be-launched cell phone project to making my work available in a variety of digital formats, I’ve tried to examine different ways to bring my writing to the people who value it the most – my [...]

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Rejections

January 8, 2010 Selling Your Novel

Two wonderful posts this morning that are very enlightening with regard to understanding why some books get rejected.
In the first, literary agent Janet Reid of Fine Print Literary Management breaks down the 124 full manuscripts she requested this year into offers (2!) and rejections and then breaks the rejections down again into groups showing why [...]

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Digital Rights, Royalty Rates, and the Changing Battlefield

October 29, 2009 Insider's View

With the rise of less expensive ebook readers and the growing interest in using mobile devices such as handhelds and cell phones to read digital content, the question of how an author should best handle their digital rights is becoming more complex.  Recent changes in how publishers are compensating us for this content has also [...]

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Planning for NaNoWriMo

October 29, 2009 Free Content

With November less than a week away, I thought I would provide a little assistance to those non-members who have stopped by the site and who are also going to be attempting NaNoWriMo.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. Every November more than [...]

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HELLstalkers – The Next Phase

October 21, 2009 Promotion and Publicity

Now that the Frankfurt Book Fair and the press conference announcing HELLstalkers is over, it is time for my co-writer and I to move into the next phase of the project – building up the online presence and promotion before the December 1st launch of the first book in the series, The Cerberus Protocol.
We’ve taken [...]

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Understanding a Profit and Loss Statement

October 20, 2009 Insider's View

Most publishers require an editor to put together a profit and loss statement, or a P&L, when they are interested in acquiring a book.  The P&L helps the editorial board or acquisition team decide if the project is a good investment for the publishing house.  Understanding just what goes into a P&L statement can be [...]

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The Birth of a Series

October 2, 2009 Insider's View

Next month a press conference will be held at the Frankfurt Book Fair announcing the pending launch of HELLstalkers, which is that super secret project I’ve eluded to several times both here and on my personal webpage.  More information on the project itself – what it is, who’s publishing it, how people can get it [...]

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More On That New Project

September 15, 2009 Craft of Writing

Remember that new project I alluded to last week?  Now that the contracts have been signed and the press release has been,well, released, I can talk about it in a bit more detail.
So, here’s what I can tell you.

HELLStalkers
That’s it.  I’ve said more than I really should have.  If I were to continue, you and [...]

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