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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...
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Bill
- Jun 3
- 3 min
Author Hall of Shame
Folks, I've got to tell you I've been busted for the crime of the century. Plagiarism?--nope. Procrastination?--not busted yet on this...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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