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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...

Bill
Sep 5, 20211 min read
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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,...

Bill
Aug 23, 20213 min read
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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...

Bill
Aug 13, 20212 min read
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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...

Bill
Jul 23, 20217 min read
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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."...

Bill
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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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...

Bill
Jul 11, 20212 min read
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"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...

Bill
Jun 2, 20212 min read
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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...

Bill
May 23, 20213 min read
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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...

Bill
May 16, 20212 min read
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Selling the Old Novel and Writing the New Novel
These days I find myself alternating between working to complete a first draft of DiBene, the second book in the Eli Kurz MD, NICU...

Bill
May 2, 20214 min read
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Five Rules for Writing Novels--during a year of Covid
There have been over sixty blogs since the inception of this website about a year ago--most of them about writing (why, when, where, how,...

Bill
Apr 14, 20213 min read
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Making Sourdough Bread and Novel Writing--When To Do It.
There. I think I procrastinated on this blog so I could unscramble the title. It''s not how to make a novel or sourdough bread, it's...

Bill
Apr 3, 20213 min read
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Immortalizing the Contest Winner
Once upon a time, a new author checked his book site on Amazon two or three times a day. It's been almost a month since publication. Hard...

Bill
Mar 29, 20212 min read
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10 Ways Writing a Novel Is Like Making Sourdough Bread
Why would anyone read drivel with a title like this? All over the web there are 10 Ways to Lose Weight, 10 Ways to Have Great Sex, 10...

Bill
Mar 22, 20212 min read
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Kill All Your Darlings
First things first. The New Novel entitled Baby Doe, is now not only as a paperback available on Amazon, but also an Amazon Kindle ebook...

Bill
Mar 15, 20215 min read
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Pantser to Planner to Puzzles
Baby Doe, just published, (and here's the all important link for purchase) was written piece by piece. I talked a lot about it. Imposed...

Bill
Mar 7, 20213 min read
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NEW NOVEL PUBLISHED
Yowser! Baby Doe is published as a trade paperback on Amazon. Here's the all important link The ebook will be up on Amazon in a few...

Bill
Feb 28, 20212 min read
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Baby Doe: Gone Girl
Thanks Bill, .I should have Baby Doe to the printer by Wednesday. I'll send you an email once it's there. After that, it should be up on...

Bill
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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Character in Characters
It's been weeks and weeks since my last post on this website. When there's a dearth of communication among folks, it may represent a lot...

Bill
Feb 9, 20215 min read
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Why I'll Never Quit Facebook
If you been reading these posts, the New Novel, that you know as Baby Doe was to be published in December. I thought it was done last...

Bill
Jan 24, 20212 min read
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