...Some lighthearted "advice" from Ruth Harris First, a reminder: next week we're going to have a visit from a MOVIE STAR! On August 5th,, Golden Globe Winner and Academy Award-nominated actor Terence Stamp, who is also a novelist and memoirist, will be here talking about his writing process and his new publishing company.Yes, that Terence Stamp You know how I’m always talking about the importance of Social Media? Well...
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
We still know nothing of the motives of the demented gunman who perpetrated the horrors at the screening of The Dark Knight Rises on Thursday night—and my heart goes out to the victims of that tragedy.But I think it’s important to note that earlier that day, the Rotten Tomatoes movie review site had to disable comments on the film The Dark Knight Rises because of death threats against movie reviewers who hadn’t loved the film.Yeah. Death threats. Over...
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Yesterday Catherine Ryan Hyde and I spoke with a wonderful bunch of eager authors at the Digital Authors Seminar in San Luis Obispo. They were full of lots of great questions, some of which I’ll address here on the blog in coming weeks.We talked about the two events that have caused a seismic shift in the publishing business in the last four years: the introduction of the e-reader and the rise of social media as a marketing tool. Amazon, Facebook...
Sunday, 8 July 2012
"What? Glad?" sez you. "There is nothing that makes a writer sadder than a bad review!"That's true. They can feel like a sudden, nasty downpour on the biggest parade of your life.Whether you self-pubbed or worked with a traditional publisher, the publication of your first book is a moment of personal triumph. You want to shout it from the rooftops: “HEY WORLD, LOOK WHAT I DID! I AM AN EFFING AUTHOR, PEOPLE!!” And your book starts to climb up the charts. Wow. People are buying it. People you aren’t even related to!Reviews start coming in. People...
Sunday, 1 July 2012
First: The big day has arrived!The ebook version of HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE…And Keep Your E-Sanity which I wrote with my mentor Catherine Ryan Hyde is now available on Amazon from MWiDP. For a limited time, the e-book price will be $2.99 in the US and roughly the equivalent in the UK. (This book is for writers all over the world, not just the US, and we had a Brit for an editor—thanks Mark!--who steered us from the usual America-centric...
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