If there was one thing I heard over and over from the many successful authors I met last weekend, it was that reviews are crucial to selling books. This is not a surprise to me–I’ve long had a feeling that reviews are an important part of an author’s currency. […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Don’t get all excited, ladies. I don’t actually mean I took Dugoni away. Just a bit of his knowledge. This weekend I had to pleasure and opportunity to attend the first inaugural Chanticleer Author Conference. I’m still overflowing with inspiration and information, and as a way of unpacking everything I learned […]
Goodreads Book Giveaway Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by Selah J. Tay-Song Giveaway ends September 25, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
Well, it’s been awhile since I posted, and I thought I should share a little of what’s been happening in my web absence and what will be happening to further absent me from the web this month. About a week ago we returned from visiting our dear, ill friend Bunbury out […]
So, the last two post have been about identifying theme in your writing, with a really great method from Jesikah Sundin and some awkward attempts by yours truly. Today I’m asking the question: Why should you identify the themes in your own writing? Whether you understand your own themes before you […]
As I said yesterday, theme is my Achilles heel in writing. So today I’m going to take Jesikah Sundin’s advice to heart and try to examine some of the themes in DVBC, using her method of turning a subject into a question then answering the question. Here are three that […]