Building Your Network of Allies
When I mention "networking," I receive stares that one usually finds on freshly-sexed teenagers in a slasher film. I mean I fully...
Novel Writing Made Less Impossible -- Think About That Book Cover
DISCLAIMER: I am not a very good artist. I had ambitions of becoming a comic book illustrator in my misspent youth. Well, it turned out I...
Feeling Confident About Your Writing, Even If You Have To Lie To Yourself
I recall seeing some novel writers at a comic book convention three years ago. Their displays were immaculate, their covers attractive...
Novel Writing Made Less Impossible -- How To Parlay Those Credits (You Probably Don't Have)
It's one of the great Catch-22s of the modern work world ... you can't get a job until you have experience and you can't get experience...
Put Your Muse To Work!
I recently read a great quote from Jack London. He said, "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." A lot of...
Novel Writing Made Less Impossible -- Planning your Self-Publishing Career
This blog makes a lot of assumptions and as Samuel L. Jackson said in THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, that makes an ass out of you and umption....
It's Never Too Late
I detailed yesterday how, in my late fifties and recently let go from my office job, I decided to jump headlong into novel writing....
Novel Writing Made Less Impossible -- Further Down the Self-Publishing Path
Last week, we talked about the Pros and Cons of both Traditional Publishing (someone else does it) versus Self-Publishing (you do it). So...
Who is Conrad von Honig?
He's found evidence of extraterrestrial intervention in Mankind's development. Then he faced disgrace when a partner's dishonesty was...
