by admin | Feb 7, 2013 | Writing
Time to make me some enemies.I don’t see the point of fan fiction.Like, at all.It’s one thing to be influenced by another author. We all are. I can often tell a writer’s favorite author just by reading his work. Brust was a Zelazny fan. S M Stirling...
by admin | Jan 26, 2013 | Writing
I recently did an author talk at my local library. It went very well, sold a handful of books, made some new contacts. It just flowed nicely, people had enough questions to keep the momentum up any time I ran down, so it was a nice, informal chat.This brings me to my...
by admin | Jan 24, 2013 | American dream, EMS, Writing
Author talk resounding success. Easily made as much as I would have sleeping on the ambulance for that same hour and a half.
by admin | Jan 2, 2013 | Books, Living the Dream, Middle class, publishing, Writing
I just received my first ever legitimate royalty payment for Out of Nowhere. It wasn’t “Change Your Life, Quit the Day Job” money. More like “Here, Go Buy a Week’s Groceries” money, but still nothing to sneeze at. I had gotten a few “Here,...
by admin | Apr 29, 2012 | Amazon, e-books, publishing, Writing
They’re going to stop rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and start colluding against icebergs.There has been a lot of moaning by publishers and big bookstore chains about how e-books and Amazon are threatening to put them out of business. E-books are...
