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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...
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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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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...
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Bill
- May 2, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Bill
- Apr 14, 2021
- 3 min
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,...
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Bill
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Bill
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Mar 15, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Bill
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Bill
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Bill
- Feb 9, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Bill
- Jan 24, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Jan 10, 2021
- 4 min
The Singular Sin of the Novelist
You can read one take about the title here: Sins of the Father; Do Great Novelists Make Bad Parents? by James Woods. A Critic at Large...
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Bill
- Dec 29, 2020
- 3 min
Christ is King of Coalinga
What is it this time? You, gentle reader, may be asking. I'm marking time, that's what. Trying to get renewed traction on novel 2,...
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Bill
- Dec 16, 2020
- 6 min
Mea Culpa
As promised, a return to structure. What's going on? Baby Doe is winding up. Waiting for last promised blurbs and straining out the last...
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Bill
- Dec 6, 2020
- 5 min
Best Novels of 2020
Why this topic? Because Baby Doe probably won't be one of these. Maybe 2021. I may feel like a pregnant woman in late pregnancy: wanting...
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Bill
- Nov 28, 2020
- 1 min
Getting Published
A lot has been written about the who, what, and how of getting published. Who knew that even Theodore Roosevelt wrote about this. Not...
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Bill
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
Unanticipated Outcomes
In a previous post, I explained the four things I was working on that involved finishing book one in a series and starting the second...
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