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...

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...

In this now almost two year old series of posts on the craft, feelings, costs, benefits, advice, etc involved with writing a new novel,...

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...

For New Readers: This website, newnovelstory.com, has been up and running (meandering?) for about two years now, sadly coexisting with...

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....

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...

Don't get too excited. Only for the novel, BabyDoe, the Amazon Kindle version price been has been halved. The trade paperback price has...

As some of you devoted readers know, Baby Doe, recently published, (and available here) is the first in a series of novels featuring my...

"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...

What you avid readers of these posts may not realize is that this neophyte novelist has also long ago published some short stories, some...

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...

I'm still digging my way through this. COSTS. They're all sorts of costs attributable to the making of a novel: author, publisher,...

Waiting waiting waiting for new information on costs and author royalties for Baby Doe. You'll know when I know. Equally hard is finding...

I know I promised recently a Q2 update on publication finances after publishing Baby Doe, the new novel. Unfortunately, royalty...

Not original, but this article from the Guardian is too good not to share, especially the part about the best-selling novel, "The Foot."...

A trip to California and back, slipping between virus variants, has slowed appearance of this blog. Now I'm daunted, not by having a...

Sales results for paperback of Baby Doe for one month of first quarter of 2021 (publication date--March 1) are in. Royalties are a...

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...

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...