Any competent writer who puts himself or herself in the right place at the right time can achieve these essentially effortless results. Here are five ways you, too, can start making money at conferences instead of just spending it…
Do you feel there is high risk in replying to a blind ad with a Craigslist address?
When I was a young writer, I was impatient. Even the idea of immediate success took too long. Why should I have to wait? I had the passion. Words poured from me. What I did not have was the one thing time alone could give me: life experience. I wanted to be the next Great American Novelist, but I only had other people’s lives, ideas and words.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, we’re scheduled to close on our new house this Friday. In the last 12 years, I’d forgotten what a pain in the you-know-what it is to buy a house and we’re not planning on doing this ever again…
Thumbs up to your readers for saying something about Amazon’s policy of not letting authors reply to hecklers. We’re supposed to just put our work out there and let them take shots at us with no response at all.
I picked up one major heckler right away whom I feel is a member of one or two of the national writer’s groups and is ticked that I didn’t go the traditional literary agent route.
Well hello!!! I tried submitting to lit agents for (count them) 10-years and you, Angie, are the only person in the publishing biz who gave me a ray of hope. Just wait until they get a load of my second in series.
Kuddos lady!!
D.M. Simonds
ANGEL OF THE REALM
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Some authors shoot themselves and their publishers in the wallet with naivete about the book-reviewing industry. The problem is two-fold…
My manuscript is a humorous mystery and uses some of the local haunts in (my city). I don’t say anything bad about any of them.
It’s mainly the characters going to places like (a local restaurant), which is considered a local original. I explain why. Also, (a local diner). Everyone in the area where my heroine lives would know this place. They would also know that the bathroom is decorated with (a well-known cartoon character) accessories. This is mentioned in my manuscript. One character also works at a local charity, mentioned by name.
Is it okay to use them as long as I don’t show them in a bad light? Or, should I get them to sign something? If so, what?
For nine years, I was a freelance writer, writing coach, and writing teacher. My work was published in numerous magazines, and I published one non-fiction book and a magazine writing workbook. Since math teaching is my first love, I decided to return to it three years ago. I kept writing though for myself and attending my local spiritual writing group.
A month ago a woman who is a member of my local state writer’s club branch contacted me and asked if I would be interested in teaching a writing workshop for them…
For over a year now, we’ve been dealing with the aftermath of the accident on Valentine’s Day, 2011 when our daughter and her boyfriend were in a head-on collision. The person who hit them had been dialing his cell phone when he crossed all the way over the center line. Both vehicles were going 45-50 when they hit. Ali’s wrist was shattered and her boyfriend had three broken ribs, a broken leg, and more. Fast-forward 13 months. After months of good-faith negotiations on the victims’ side, the insurance adjuster for the guilty driver told Ali’s boyfriend that if he can’t be a chef anymore because his leg is so badly injured, he “should just go be a greeter at Walmart.”
That was the last straw. Her boyfriend hired an attorney. This week, our daughter hired the same attorney…
An author recently asked me about using real people (friends, relatives, acquaintances) in a novel. I told her doing so would be very risky from a legal standpoint.
She assumed just calling the book “fiction” would protect her from a lawsuit.
She also assumed simply changing a few names would also protect her from a lawsuit.
