Joyce Carol Oates & Notes On The Failure Of Writing

Posted on May 3, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment Writers love to write. They have to because if they didn’t love the process, the rest would just be too damned disappointing. Writers also love to write about writing. Over the years, I’ve read many essays on writing – Annie Dillard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Simon, Stephen King, Daphne DuMaurier, Pearl Buck, Bob Bausch, and many others. I’ve learned from all of these essays, and come to...
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My Life @ Amazon

Posted on Mar 2, 2012 in Blog | 2 comments It’s been eighteen months since I began my great experiment @ Amazon as an Indie author. In fact, my debut month coincided with the receipt of my first social security check. Both auspicious events that I hope will continue. During that time I’ve seen the Kindle publishing experiment explode in popularity with both readers and authors. In a previous post I outlined the reasons for and...
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Thoughts On Pros & Cons of Going Indie

Posted on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment I’ll be on a panel at AWP in February (2012) so I’ve created this little handout for whoever attends. I thought I’d share it with others who won’t be there. It’s a list of the reasons I had for becoming an Indie author. And then a list of the reasons I came up with against becoming an Indie author. Hint: that list is shorter. By the way, I’ve now published...
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An Interview about The Naked Gardener

Posted on Feb 4, 2012 in Blog | 2 comments Here are a few questions readers have asked about The Naked Gardener How did you come up with the idea of a naked gardener? A: At a certain point in my life, I knew three women who gardened naked. They all had different takes on why they did it but all of them felt it was really important to them. So I began to think about a woman who goes to her garden naked and what that might mean and in what...
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A NEW (and exciting) Paranormal Romance Series — All About Wishing

Posted on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments Well, Shelly’s Second Chance, The Wish Granters, Book One is now available at www.amazon.com. (hint: My co-author and I are both writing under pen names for this series but it’s still us, and I’m still LB from TheNovelette.com) We’re so excited, especially because we’re looking forward to hearing from all of you. Share YOUR wish by entering The Wish Granters contest....
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To Genre or Not To Genre

Posted on Sep 2, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment In a blog post at The Millions, my friend and co-author (more about that later), Kim Wright, has posted an eye-opening piece about the switch going on in publishing these days. What switch? The one from writing literary novels to producing genre works. You know, thriller, mystery, romance, suspense, YA … the list goes on. The point of her post is simply that this switch is happening for one...
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