Successful Fiction Begins With a Great Concept

J ames Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Joe’s excellent post on the magic words “What if?” got me thinking about the crucial importance of concep...

And I’m Following Gilstrap, As Usual.

 By   John Ramsey Miller A few years ago one of my dearest friends, John Gilstrap, invited me to join the Kill Zone Blog Group.  I suppose I...

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu

By John Gilstrap I tell my students in writing classes that you know it’s time to stop writing when you’ve run out of things to say. It se...

A Freelance Editor Talks About Authors’ “Habits” & Predictable Writing

By Jordan Dane I had the pleasure of working with Elyse Dinh-McCrillis (The Edit Ninja) on my short story anthology -  Sex, Death and Moist...

Magic words

By Joe Moore WARNING: This post is not about self-publishing or gatekeeping or Amazon or e-books or all the other stuff we’ve been thrashi...

Becoming your own gatekeeper

I'd like to piggyback onto Clare's topic yesterday, about the role of gatekeepers in publishing. After I posted my comment yesterda...

Quality Checks and Balances

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne As always, the hot button topic of indie/self-publishing versus traditional publishing has generated lots of comm...

Writers Going Boldly

J ames Scott Bell @jamesscottbell The late Ray Bradbury was a living, breathing testament to the joy of writing. He loved what he did and he...

Persistence

It so happens that my contribution to The Kill Zone ties in a bit with an element of John Gilstrap’s excellent piece yesterday. John at one ...

My Unsettling View on Self-Publishing

By John Gilstrap On Monday, my Killzone mate Clare Langley-Hawthorne asked how prolific a writer should be , to which a commenter responde...

A Checklist for Indie Authors – E-Book Retailers (Post 2)

To get my e-book into the hands of readers, I had decisions to make. Should I upload my book through a Distributor/Aggregator with bundled s...

The Dreaded White Page

After an interval of months due to editing my next romance release and polishing the sequel (these are big books, over 400 manuscript pages ...

MOVE OVER HARDCOVERS: E-books Just Outsold You

By: Kathleen Pickering http://www.kathleenpickering.com Before I even begin on today’s news, let me offer a superb website for the late...

How prolific should you be?

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Following on from Jim's post yesterday on attacking the self-publishing game, I started thinking about how th...

If You Seriously Want to Make Money Self-Publishing, Attack It

J ames Scott Bell @jamesscottbell I have this quaint notion that writers should be able to make money at their trade. You m...

...a red pencil clenched in their teeth

John Ramsey Miller Do not get me wrong. I love and appreciate my readers ....mostly.  I recall when fans sent letters to the publisher who f...