A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

35 days after I began, DIRTY MARTINI is complete at 72,044 words. I need a beer.

Everyone has different ways to relax and unwind. When and how often do you: Watch television? Go out to eat? See a movie? Read a book? Surf ...

My fourth Jack Daniels book is due March 1st. I've got about 15k left to write. It usually takes me about a month to write a book. I beg...

A need for self-expression? Money? An inflated sense of your own importance? Fame? Peer pressure? To change to world? Art for art's sake...

Elsewhere in the blogosphere, a heated discussion is raging about racism in publishing. Some African American authors are being marketed sol...

How far is too far in writing? I've read some pretty disturbing books. Horror writers Ed Lee and Jack Ketchum are known for not pulling ...

The way to climb Mt. Everest is one step at a time. The way to build the pyramids is one stone at a time. Yet some writers believe that they...

Let's talk about reputations. Writers have three. The first, and most important, is your reputation with your fans. The majority of this...

I blurb a lot of books. I do this for three main reasons. A lot of authors have blurbed me, and I feel I need to return the favor. I know ho...

I have a writing friend who shall remain nameless , and we once had an agonizingly long discussion about potential. I believe that if you se...