I’ve asked a few friends who are writing their first novels for some input. Here’s the response from Jay Koppleman, website: ...

Who cares how your future novel is classified? You do if I tell you that your book is more easy to peddle if it falls into a clean...

Finally! We can get around to writing a new novel. If this were a book on writing (and there are megatons of them) I’d have to summarise...

At least two more reasons. 1. Community, Millions of folks these days are living in isolation, Isolation is generally bad for folks, as...

In an earlier blog, I wrote about writing as therapy. That was reason # 1. However, that’s not a good enough reason for those of us...

A new algorithm aims to inject some science into the art of publishing

Many, many reasons. But for these times, one good answer is that it is therapeutic. There’s some evidence for that. Below is a good...

But since that website was really more for Amazon than for me, or for future books, I wanted my own website. First I tried making my own...

Contacts: Anyone who has contacted me through your site (e.g., though a contact form). Anyone who is manually added to my contacts. Any...

That's ambiguous, isn't it. Why not, write! That comma indicates that you should just write, dammit. For no reason or for a few reasons,...

1. Write your novel. 2 Carry out developmental edit, line edit, and proof reading. 3. Find an agent. 3. Repeat step 2 with agent. 4. Tell...

Today I was reading an old New York Times Book Review and found that Courtney Maum has written a book called Before and after the Book...

The good news about authors’ websites is that you need one.