Deadlines are hell. Anyone knows that, but self-imposed deadlines are the worst because there’s no one standing over you with a whip.
Month: November 2010
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Life is full of surprises, like discovering that someone you were communicating with was having a totally different conversation.
Amazon and Sony have crossed the line from e-book stores to publishers, although they’re using a very old method to recruit want-to-be-authors: self-publishers, also known as vanity presses.
Not everyone who reads books keeps them. Those of us who do line our walls with books do so because we love books. We like looking at them; we like holding them. Some of us even enjoy dusting them.
My novel is about redemption, about accepting fate and even a little romance, but mostly it’s about war.
For those of you who have a life and don’t have time for the article: the salient prediction is that Amazon and the Kindle will move from 50% e-book market share to 90% market share.
One of Fogel’s main complaints, and the subject of her guest post yesterday, is that I don’t have a clear picture in my own head of my characters.
1. I’m a great believer in writing from the inside out. What that means is that, although good story is more important than good writing, writing is the only means you have of conveying the story.
“The e-book sales are astonishing,” says Grisham. “Would anybody have thought that a year ago? The future has arrived, and we’re looking at it.”
The Crime Writers of Canada asked me for an article on e-books for their newsletter. The article I wrote above turned out to be very similar to one they’d published last month. Who knew? I’m not the first person to see this coming.