MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Continuing Evolution of Genre

MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Continuing Evolution of Genre: by Janis Patterson If you talk to the oldtimers, life used to be simpler, and in publishing I guess it was. Publishers published books. Some...

Up Around The Corner: Fandemonium 2023

 Up Around The Corner: Fandemonium 2023

MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Reader-Writer Contract by Janis Patterson

MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Reader-Writer Contract: by Janis Patterson I hate being treated like a convenience. While there are wonderful readers and I have many wonderful fans, there are thos...

SleuthSayers: No Longer the Golden (Age) Standard... by Steve Liskow

SleuthSayers: No Longer the Golden (Age) Standard...: A few days ago, I read the newest issue of Black Cat Mystery Magazine and realized something I've been aware of for some time but never...

Criminal Minds: Pardon My Prose by James W. Ziskin

Criminal Minds: Pardon My Prose by James W. Ziskin: Stephen King says, “If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.” Should an author...

Thoughts from a Digital Advocate: Macmillan publishes a work of fiction by Steve Potash Founder & CEO, OverDrive

Thoughts from a Digital Advocate: Macmillan publishes a work of fiction by Steve Potash Founder & CEO, OverDrive  

Do Some Damage: Dominoes and Houses of Cards Want To Fall

Do Some Damage: Dominoes and Houses of Cards Want To Fall: The supply chain from publisher to consumer is broken. Major distributors absorbed supply chain entities (Ingram/PGW, Bookmasters/Baker &am...

Rebecca Bradley: Can You Sell Books via Social Media?

Rebecca Bradley: Can You Sell Books via Social Media?

Lindy's Lair: On Attracting Readers

Lindy's Lair: On Attracting Readers

Bookbrowsing Blog: Promotion from here by Randy Rawls

Bookbrowsing Blog: Promotion from here by Randy Rawls

Denise Weeks, Mystery Author: For writers and readers: thoughts on structure

Denise Weeks, Mystery Author: For writers and readers: thoughts on structure: The beginning of a novel--ideally, the first few lines, unless we are in a prologue, about which more next time--should open a window and se...

Friday Finds for Writers (The Practicing Writer)

Friday Finds for Writers (The Practicing Writer)

Internet gives readers 'false sense of entitlement', Joanne Harris says (The Telegraph)

Internet gives readers 'false sense of entitlement', Joanne Harris says (The Telegraph)

20th Anniversary Texas Book Festival October 17-18, 2015

I so wish I was going....  

 20th Anniversary Texas Book Festival October 17-18, 2015

Do Free Book Promotions Work? (Part I) (Andrew Updegrove: Tales of Adversego Blog)

Do Free Book Promotions Work? (Part I) (Andrew Updegrove: Tales of Adversego Blog)

Why Facebook Cannot Help You Sell Books (Digital Book World)

Why Facebook Cannot Help You Sell Books (Digital Book World)

Stop Grading an Author’s Social Media Presence (Digital Book World)

Stop Grading an Author’s Social Media Presence (Digital Book World)

2015 East Texas Book Fest in Tyler, Texas on August 21-22, 2015

2015 East Texas Book Fest in Tyler, Texas on August 21-22, 2015

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Amazon and Reviews

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Amazon and Reviews: Those who follow my blog know that I believe Amazon has been incredibly beneficial to authors, whereas the Authors Guild has been incredibly...

Bookish events in Texas for the week of July 6 - 12, 2015 (Texas Book Lover Blog)

Bookish events in Texas for the week of July 6 - 12, 2015 (Texas Book Lover Blog)