Category: publishing
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Did we put the cart before the horse?
I have a growing number of draft posts. It almost feels like I’ve been actively updating this journal because I have so many posts started that the interaction was initiated even if it wasn’t completed. I’ve been journaling in one form or another for a decade now, opening my first LiveJournal account in February of…
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Be Sure to Use the Appropriate Nasality
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I have a few drafts that I’ll probably never publish (that happens from time to time), but I have a really good reason why. I’ve been writing like Robert E. Howard. Not specifically in his style, but when he wrote Conan, he said that the barbarian himself stood…
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Shoo! Get away, you!
Generally, I feel in a rush to be published and begin my professional career in earnest. Part of that is because I’ve been writing for so long and am a touch ashamed that I only recently started taking it so seriously. I lost a whole decade in there where I might have made something of…
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You Have a Proof, Read the Damn Thing!
Here’s a little tradecraft for you. Copyediting and Proofreading are not the same thing. Copyediting often includes proofreading, but it’s not its primary goal. It’s the icing on the cake that makes your story better. Proofreading does not include copyediting (though occasionally a proofreader will attempt to do so and it usually means a lot…
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All In?
I was speaking with an agent a few weeks back, and we got on the subject of self-publishing. As has been recorded here, my opinion on self-publishing has evolved as self-publishing itself has evolved. I won’t say it’s changed, because that loses the nuance of my progress. The majority of self-published work I read is…
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A Whole Different World
Being a digital generation, it’s easy to get trapped in the notion that who people are online is who they are in real life. And not to say that they’re liars or phonies, but when we’re on Twitter or Blogger or Facebook, we only see a fraction of that person. I never “market” myself, meaning…
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The Bell Rings
So unless you live under a log (in which case you have a secret base and I want to come visit), you heard that the Department of Justice sued Apple and 5/6 of the Big Six today (Random House was not included). Of the five publishers, three settled to avoid the legal costs. Two, Macmillain…
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Throw Your Arms In the Air Because You Just Don’t Care
I write because I’m a writer. I pursue professional publication because that’s been a goal of mine for the past 22 years. It wasn’t always my highest priority, but it was never abandoned. And for the past two+ years, it has been my highest priority. I focus on writing not as an eventual, but as…