Posts related to the creative writing process
The last month (early-April through early-May) was highly productive. One just can’t overestimate the effect of experience on any process. When I was writing Synchronicity,… Read More »A title for book 2, plus publishing status
If you’ve read past posts, you know that I wrote my first book (Synchronicity) having literally no idea what I was doing. Going through the… Read More »Maturation in the Writing Process: Book 2
The Social Science Icons & Grace series, at least the first trilogy, is a set of multiple redemption stories. And, when focusing on redemption stories,… Read More »Redemptions galore
It’s time to gear up for the novel and novella (DEMERGENCE) releases scheduled for this fall. Sometime later this summer, this site will undergo big… Read More »Coming later this summer: a complete re-boot
It turns out my cover designer is going to help solve my categorization challenges. Who knew? While I have no clue yet about the cover’s… Read More »The cover genius and the developmental edit
The downside to writing outside a clear genre is figuring out enough of a genre match to sell books. For example, my forthcoming novel has:… Read More »Find a sub-genre: harder than it seems
Back in the day (3 weeks ago), I naively understood self-publishing to be the single last step of the writing process. Today, my half-educated brain… Read More »12 reasons self-publishing is an occupation
For the next few months, I’m taking several steps to prepare for self-publishing, hopefully in the fall. First, I’m continuing my listening and reading about… Read More »Preparing to publish
Several months ago I sent my first query letter, excited by potential success. Then I waited. And waited. And got distracted by work and home… Read More »The self-service option
I’ve not been very good at keeping up with the blogging. While I could give you a list of excuses…let’s not and say we did.… Read More »First agent query submission – CHECK