A key member of a small press asked why a publisher should accept financial risk for bringing a writer’s work to the market. His company expected writers to share in the cost of producing books and marketing, usually thousands of … Continue reading →
What’s your summertime writing behavior? Are you reading this during breaks at a writers’ workshop or sitting in a cottage? Do you take vacation days to barricade yourself at home with your laptop? Will your Fourth of July be spent … Continue reading →
We visit a bookstore about once a week. Until Common Good Books moved to its new location, our default selection was a big box bookseller because that is what exists in our part of the Twin Cities. We always enjoyed … Continue reading →
For about five years my goal as a rookie writer was to build a short story collection, one hundred fifty pages long, to submit to The Loft’s Mentor competition. A copy of my first submission is stored in the back … Continue reading →
How much is a creative writer worth? The facts are harsh. Writers are like job seekers paying a potential employer to review a job application. We’re a class of professionals who will work eighty hours in a month merely for … Continue reading →
Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037 will be delivered in one month. Before sitting back to admire the cover and enjoy the glow, my attention has shifted to revising the final book of the Ashwood trilogy. With a new website launching soon, … Continue reading →
Blogs are kind of like the New York Times of miscellaneous information when news crawls across the bottom of a screen fulfill some readers’ need for all the facts.
Continue reading →Finding the best blogs to follow or query for a review is a bit like searching for a dozen blue gumballs in a bin filled with thousands of small, round candies.
Continue reading →Hunger Games trilogy may bring young adult readers and their parents together for a summer of interesting discussions
Continue reading →Publishers like writers to do the traditional bookstore tour. Friends have traveled as far as the Virgin Islands to do readings. With the right combination of store personnel and audience, a bookstore reading is a wonderful experience.
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