For Readers (and Authors, too)
This blog is for anyone that reads my books, as well as for anyone else who is self-publishing, thinking about self-publishing, or just curious about what it’s like to be an author during rapidly changing times. Whenever you visit here, I hope you’ll share your own comments and thoughts. If you’d like to know whenever I post a new entry, please type your email address into the box in the right-hand column and check the appropriate box (and the newsletter one, too, while you’re at it).
Book Review: One Night in the Hill Country (Felipe Adan Lerma)
One of the significant advantages of self-publishing is that the author has the freedom to write the book that he or she wishes, rather than conforming to a formula that a publisher (rightly or wrongly) has decided the marketplace will buy. Felipe Adan Lerma has taken advantage of this freedom to craft a fast-paced novella that explores current social issues and juxtaposes the vulnerability of innocents to those who have suffered the consequences of innocence lost.
From First Draft to Release: Starting and Maintaining Your Task List
There are two ways to pass the time from first draft to release: doing your revisions first and everything else second, or overlapping the two processes. There’s something to be said for both approaches, but it will be easier to figure out which one is right for you if you create a detailed task list of everything that will need to be done before you make your first sale. read more…
From First Draft to Release: Follow the Yellow Brick Road
With a first self-published book, finishing the first draft feels like crossing the goal line. The second time around, you know better.
Are You a Victim of “The Trouble with Writing?”
There is ample evidence that for some, the act of writing a book – indeed, book after book – seems to flow as effortlessly as a summer breeze. But we all know that for most authors, struggling to write too often leads to more pain than word-count gain. Author Michelle Huneven tackled that topic at a writers’ workshop recently, and she did an unusually elegant and thorough job of plumbing the depths of “The Trouble with Writing.” read more…
An Interview with Author/Poet/Photographer Felipe Adan Lerma
Adan and his wife Sheila
As you will have gathered from the title to this interview, Felipe Adan Lerma is a man of diverse creative interests. His latest effort (released yesterday) is a thriller novella titled One Night in the Hill Country, and it follows on a rich portfolio of prior work spanning multiple genres, media and topics. read more…
It’s all about Writing (and always has been)
I happened upon a blog entry the other day that asked why J.K. Rowling hadn’t self-published her new crime books. The blogger went on at great length to illustrate the advantages Rowling could have enjoyed if only she had hired her own editor, publicist and so on. The decision of the famous author, evidently, was too inexplicable and wrong-headed to be believed. read more…
Pre-Order Pricing : “One Night in the Hill Country” – Felipe Adan Lerma’s new Thriller
Felipe Adan Lerma’s new Thriller/Novella is due out on October 19. The pre-release price is only $2.99, and if you like supporting self-published authors, here’s a great opportunity to do so. Let’s see if we can’t help Adan’s book launch with the kind of ranking that will bring it to the attention of others as well. read more…
How Would you React if Your Book was Pirated?
We all know what happened to musicians once Napster came along – millions of people started downloading their music without paying a dime to the authors or publishers of that music. If you’re the author of a self-published eBook, is the same thing happening to you? read more…
A Writer’s Perception of Reality
Scientists and philosophers have struggled for years to define our relation to reality, or even to decide what “reality” might be. The rest of us mostly muddle through the daily experience of our existence. For a writer, perceptions of reality are also important, as it’s easier to write about what we have perceived than what we have persuaded ourselves to imagine. read more…
My Thanks to Recent Reviewers
I wanted to give a big Thank You to those readers who have recently posted reviews of The Alexandria Project. Where they are also authors, I’d also like to provide links back to their sites so that you can learn about them and their books as well. read more…
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