I was blessed to be interviewed for a second time by another blog. This time I was interviewed by Collective Compositions, a blog about writing, art and culture. Her questions were very thought provoking and I hope my answers were of the same caliber.
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How a Book is Born: A Humorous Yet Truthful Look at Publishing
Yesterday I brought up the point that it is strange how James Patterson completes the herculean task of churning out 12 best sellers in a year. Today I found an info graphic by Mariah Bear that is a humorous satire of what it takes to get published these days, but it is also laden with … Continue reading »
Samantha Shannon: The Next J.K. Rowling?
I read an article today about Samantha Shannon who will release a novel entitled The Bone Season this year. She is a literature student at Oxford University and many people say she could be the next billion dollar author, as her book will be one of seven books in a series. She has everything going for … Continue reading »
How To Find a Unique Narrative Style
One of the most difficult tasks of writing a long novel is the ability to create a narrative style that is unique, flows well, and remains consistent throughout the 50,000 words or so required for a novel. It also must be a style that catches a reader’s eye from the first few pages. I have … Continue reading »
Scrivener Addict: Why I Won’t Go Back To Word for Novel Writing
I really can’t remember why or how I found out about Scrivener, or as I like to call it “The Novelist’s Friend”. I downloaded it back in December of 2011 and use it every day. Many of my friends who really know me look at me with raised eyebrows and crooked mouths when I mention … Continue reading »
Using Scrivener’s Help Function
Scrivener is probably one of the best word processors out there for novelists. I use it every day and find it more easy to use than Word or any of the others. One of the reasons this is true for me is found in the overly helpful help … Continue reading »
Using Twitter Mentions to Increase Blog Traffic
I was averaging 45-50 hits a day until the last two days. I decided to try a little experiment after hitting upon this sort of by accident. It seems to work pretty well. If you don’t believe me, then look at these blog stats: What I did was simple. I started looking around my desktop … Continue reading »
How to Use Scrivener to Format an e-Book for Kindle and Nook
You all know how I feel about Scrivener, but it is truly the best program for novelists out there. For $49 it’s a steal and it is really not that complicated to use. Today I thought I would show you how to format a Kindle .mobi file and an .epub file that is used on … Continue reading »
Using Scrivener to Format for Indentations and Line Spacing
The act of publishing is not as easy as sending a Word document in to a publisher or uploading the file to Amazon Kindle and letting their software do all the work. There are two faux pas that writers make all the time that bug type-setters to death and will make your work that much … Continue reading »
Just Because You’re Published Don’t Mean You Write Good
There seems to be a war of words in this currently hyped self-publishing boom between the self-published and the traditionally published. The self-published go on and on about the success of some lucky few and the traditionally published are always noting that the reason people are published is due to the writer’s talent and that … Continue reading »
