Tag: professionalism
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Realigning the Thought Tracks
There is some common wisdom shared among authors that has gotten twisted by the internets, like playing a game of operator/telephone (depending on where in the country you grew up–basically a message is relayed through a number of people and it warps with each passing). The very wise advice was, “Don’t quit your day job…
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Keeping Up Appearances
Having moved around a lot, I have a lot of friends online. And really, I was a quick adopter of the internet back in the ’90s and have a tendency to express myself online much the same as I do in real life. Especially when it comes to blowing off steam. Since I work with…
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The Known Unknowns
Between my own experiences in the industry and the years I’ve spent participating in various industry blogs (pubrants, the Bransford, etc.), I am not too worried about what will come after I get an agent and sell a book. Or at least, I feel like I have a pretty solid understanding of most aspects. Except…
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No Sympathy for Bookstores
The general premise is that if you want to be a writer, you should buy books whenever you can, whether they are for yourself or gifts for others (this sentiment most often comes up around Christmas). I don’t have a problem with this, to be honest. Support the business you work in. Makes sense to…
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50,000 words
If not for a dead battery, I would have passed 50,000 words yesterday in my WIP. I instead passed it this morning. Making a similar comment on Twitter yesterday, I pondered why I put so much stock in 50,000 words. Certainly it doesn’t represent the end point of the manuscript nor the midpoint. I have…
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I Love My Company
The formula I always say for meeting colleagues in the publishing industry is to take the decade of a person’s age (I’m 33, so 3), subtract 1, and that’s the number of publishers that person has worked for. It’s amazing how accurate that formula is. Publishing is incredibly incestuous in its hiring practices, we list…
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Clarification, Explanation
I changed my twitter profile recently from “I write.” to “I write in the morning. I make ebooks all day. I write in the evening. I do other stuff.” There was some confusion to this statement. It was presumed that I self-publish in ebook format, and that is not the case. I work for a…