We are a little late on This Week in Books, what with the post-Thanksgiving food coma and Christmas tree procuring, but there were tons of great links last week, so let’s check out what all happened. Also, a bit of a programming change. I’m in crunch-time mode for the delivery of JACOB WONDERBAR #2, and […]
Archives for November 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope you have enough butter.
What is Your Favorite Thanksgiving Dish?
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA, and for all of you folks outside the US who may not have experienced a traditional American Thanksgiving, it is quite the calorie-fest. We gather together to ingest copious amounts of turkey, gravy, stuffing, honey baked ham, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, baked […]
The nine circles of writing hell
With apologies to Dante Alighieri… We have all probably started ill-fated novels that, shall we say, did not go where we wanted them to go. For one reason or another, either our will or our preparation or the idea failed us, and sure enough, they ended up in novel hell. Based on the Nine Circles […]
Seven Tips on How to Build a Following Online
1. Be consistent. We are all creatures of online habit, and if you are hoping to build traffic and a regular audience, it’s essential to worm your way into people’s routines (much harder than actually getting them to like you!). And in order to do this, it’s important to have a posting frequency that your […]
This Week in Books 11/19/10
This week en los libros… Query critique Friday/Saturday/Sunday! Yes, it is that time of week, wherein we critique a page or query (this week a query). The query for critique is up in the Forums. UPDATE: my critique and more about the importance of conveying your protagonist’s motivation, posted here. Meanwhile, the books had a […]
