Vanity press is a derogatory term for publishing houses that print books at the author’s expense. There are several reasons why this practice has traditionally been considered bad form, one of which is because money is supposed to flow to the writer. Self-publishing has slowly broken down this concept due to the cheap and inexpensive … [Read more…]
A new year, a new batch of links! So, this is so cool. You can graph the usage of words. I graphed slang terms to see if I was using them correctly in the right historical period. Here’s a nice summary about words that distance the reader from a story. I found this interesting because … [Read more…]
You have built a beautiful site which contains tons of useful and entertaining information, but the web traffic just doesn’t seem to be flowing past your door, or it may be flowing, but very few are stopping to visit. How do you get visitors to your website and get them to come back? Let’s start … [Read more…]
So, you are set up with a domain name, you have a place for your site to live (aka web host) and you have a pretty new design filled with…what? As a writer, what content should your site have? Let’s start with the absolute MUST HAVES. First and foremost, your BOOKS! Backlist, Available Now, and … [Read more…]