Category: Writing
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How to Write a Book: The End
We’ve done the preparation, the writing, the editing, and you feel like you’ve reached the peak of a mountain. Now it’s time to turn around and see the next peak looming over you.
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How to Write a Book: The Middle
Finally, we’re ready to start the fun part. It only took us 3,000 words to get here. All of that preparation might have been a pain, but there are two bits of good news. First, if you made it through the pain, there’s a good chance you’re definitely writer. Second,…
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How to Write a Book: The Beginning
The question of how to write a book is one that is asked a lot. The internet is also overflowing with articles and step-by-step guides. It could figuratively literally burst at any moment because there are so many. So I’m going to write one too.
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Ye Olde English Blogge
For no particular reason, I’m going to talk about the famous ‘Ye Olde…’ whatever. For example, ‘Ye Olde Shoppe’. It’s not particularly in depth, because that would be incredibly boring, so it’s just a brief, mildly interesting overview because I am bored. The ‘Ye’ part, we all know, is Old…
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Reviews and Amazon Rants
It means a lot to get good reviews. It means quite a lot to get a good rating, though slightly less than a well thought out review. It also means a lot when Amazon decides ‘f*** you, we don’t like you having nice things, so we’ll delete your best reviews’.…
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Days of Winter Guardians
I have left it so long since the last blog post that the whole layout of this New Post screen has changed. But anyway, it’s time to update the world on my goings on and allow you to unbate your breath. The main, important things are that I have now…
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The Indie Author Manifesto
This is fairly self-evident. Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, has created this manifesto of what it means to be an indie author. The original post can be found here.
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Anatomy of a Book Cover
As usual, a slightly misleading title. I’m not going to share my theories of what makes the perfect book cover. I’m going to share my process of getting a book cover. Because I don’t have anything better to do. Step Uno The first thing I do is think what I…
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Acts of Violence
As you may have gathered from the counter on the right ending its countdown, and from me saying several times, Acts of Violence is now available! Acts of Violence is a semi-noir (though beta readers have stated there’s nothing semi about it) thriller. It is, strictly speaking, sci-fi as well,…
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Bullet In The Rain
That was my first thought for the title of my next book, a semi-noir(ish) thriller. Then there were other possibilities, mostly comprised of rain and darkness and bullets. There are a fair number of bullets, though, and a lot of rain, so I decided on something a little more relevant…
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