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    Editing Your Novel: Stern Advice
    Bill
    • Dec 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    Editing Your Novel: Stern Advice

    Subtitle: Fear of Finalizing, Led't's see if I can get through this post cleanly. Newbies as we are, I'm sure we're all conversant with...
    185 views1 comment
    Bill
    • Apr 25
    • 8 min

    What To Do When You Don't Feel Like Writing

    Still contending with Covid that takes the world back all the way to flu epidemic in the early 1900's, and a psychotic attack on Ukraine...
    31 views0 comments
    Really Good Writing
    Bill
    • Mar 7
    • 19 min

    Really Good Writing

    In this now almost two year old series of posts on the craft, feelings, costs, benefits, advice, etc involved with writing a new novel,...
    40 views0 comments
    The Right To Write And/Or Being Woke
    Bill
    • Jan 31
    • 3 min

    The Right To Write And/Or Being Woke

    A few years ago, a novel I wrote found an agent. I know. A miracle. But that's only the start of this story. The agent worked with me for...
    68 views0 comments
    Writing Fiction: Status Report for New Novel(s)
    Bill
    • Jan 23
    • 3 min

    Writing Fiction: Status Report for New Novel(s)

    For New Readers: This website, newnovelstory.com, has been up and running (meandering?) for about two years now, sadly coexisting with...
    42 views0 comments
    Real Writing Finally
    Bill
    • Dec 2, 2021
    • 11 min

    Real Writing Finally

    Enough with ads! Editing! Money! Writers write, and while I should be working on the next novel, I thought I'd share a fun bagatelle....
    16 views0 comments
    Seventy Blogs About Writing
    Bill
    • Nov 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Seventy Blogs About Writing

    Just a review, mainly for me. What I see is a lot of stuff about the business of writing this summer and less about actual writing. So...
    31 views0 comments
    Price for Novel Slashed
    Bill
    • Nov 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Price for Novel Slashed

    Don't get too excited. Only for the novel, BabyDoe, the Amazon Kindle version price been has been halved. The trade paperback price has...
    34 views0 comments
    Less Than Honest Biomedical Research
    Bill
    • Nov 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Less Than Honest Biomedical Research

    As some of you devoted readers know, Baby Doe, recently published, (and available here) is the first in a series of novels featuring my...
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    Writers on Writing
    Bill
    • Oct 3, 2021
    • 8 min

    Writers on Writing

    "The things you remember have no form. When you write about them, you have to give them a beginning, a middle and an end. To give life...
    16 views0 comments
    Enough About Money-Back to Writing
    Bill
    • Sep 23, 2021
    • 12 min

    Enough About Money-Back to Writing

    What you avid readers of these posts may not realize is that this neophyte novelist has also long ago published some short stories, some...
    27 views0 comments
    Money, Novels, Royalties
    Bill
    • Sep 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    Money, Novels, Royalties

    Results are in for Q2 sales and royalties for Baby Doe, the new novel, which you can purchase here. Paperback sales April 1-June 30 were...
    39 views0 comments
    Royalties, Costs, Money, & Sex: Sales of New Novel
    Bill
    • Aug 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Royalties, Costs, Money, & Sex: Sales of New Novel

    I'm still digging my way through this. COSTS. They're all sorts of costs attributable to the making of a novel: author, publisher,...
    54 views0 comments
    Sales of New Novel: Baby Doe
    Bill
    • Aug 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    Sales of New Novel: Baby Doe

    Waiting waiting waiting for new information on costs and author royalties for Baby Doe. You'll know when I know. Equally hard is finding...
    43 views0 comments
    Money Report From Publishing a First Novel-Postponed
    Bill
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 7 min

    Money Report From Publishing a First Novel-Postponed

    I know I promised recently a Q2 update on publication finances after publishing Baby Doe, the new novel. Unfortunately, royalty...
    31 views0 comments
    Bill
    • Jul 20, 2021
    • 1 min

    How Bestseller Lists Actually Work -- And How To Get On Them

    Not original, but this article from the Guardian is too good not to share, especially the part about the best-selling novel, "The Foot."...
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     The New Novels: Reviewing the Revision Steps and Waiting for Q2 Sales
    Bill
    • Jul 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    The New Novels: Reviewing the Revision Steps and Waiting for Q2 Sales

    A trip to California and back, slipping between virus variants, has slowed appearance of this blog. Now I'm daunted, not by having a...
    38 views0 comments
    "Profits" From Sale of New Novel
    Bill
    • Jun 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    "Profits" From Sale of New Novel

    Sales results for paperback of Baby Doe for one month of first quarter of 2021 (publication date--March 1) are in. Royalties are a...
    55 views0 comments
    New Novel Marketing Plan
    Bill
    • May 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    New Novel Marketing Plan

    Critical events of the past little while. 1. Today my iPhone packed up and did nothing but wink its little bitten apple at me, despite my...
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    Revision: Killing Cockroaches
    Bill
    • May 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Revision: Killing Cockroaches

    In a prior life when I lived in an old apartment in Boston, whenever I turned on the kitchen light, a host of not so wee beasties...
    30 views0 comments
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