by admin | Feb 4, 2019 | musings
With the publication of my first story, The Masq, my meteoric rise to the top has been nothing if not educational. Well, maybe that’s all it’s been. Bestseller lists have received their fair share of criticism, and I’ve now seen firsthand how these...
by admin | Feb 1, 2019 | indie publishing, short fiction
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve decided to start selling stories on Amazon. Amazon has an interesting system in place. They’ll pay 70% if you price your book between $2.99 and $9.99, but everything priced outside those parameters will only reel in...
by admin | Feb 1, 2019 | indie publishing, short fiction
As I work on slicing and dicing 30,000 words from one novel, edit the first draft another novel, consider changing tense in my very first novel, and continue writing and submitting short stories to an ever-expanding list of periodicals, I figured why not dip my toe in...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | musings, writing
Perhaps conundrum is an overstatement. Especially given I know which way I’m leaning. It’s also not a pressing concern, considering I’m only done the first draft. And I might rewrite the entire thing in first person. (At least it’s only 75k...
by Russell | Aug 14, 2018 | first novel, writing
Zoom. Zip. Four months just flew by. There was another edit, of course, and Chapter Nine is no more. Its chewy bits remain scattered throughout the first chapter, but most of it is in the bin where it belongs. It was a massacre of darlings. And it felt good. But the...
