So the naive person I was before November 1st thought, “how perfect, the next topic of 101 TIWIK is drafting, and I’m about to being doing a lot of drafting. I’ll have so much to blog about.” To quote Mike Birbiglia, “I kno-ow. I’m in the future, also.” So today, instead […]
General Ranting
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Huge thanks to Eva Vanrell for inviting me to participate in today’s Character Interview Blog Hop! Eva is an: Author. Attorney. New Orleanian. Lover of Cherry Ring Pops. Confirmed Japanophile. Dreamer. Sometimes Obsessive. Blunt to a Fault. Wishful-Thinker. Tea and Anime Compulsive. Diehard. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, two […]
Today was another landmark day for me as a writer. I didn’t increase my sales rank on Amazon or reach my thousandth like on Facebook. What did happen was, to me, far more important in my progression as a writer. Today I met a young lady whom I was twenty years […]