My monthly royalty payment from Amazon came in yesterday. I was pleased to see it was the same as last month. A total of $2.57 was directly deposited into my checking account. I am not sure how many book sales… Read More ›
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HOLLYWOOD WILL CALL, SOMEDAY (BUT IT BETTER BE SOON)
My monthly royalty payment from Amazon came in yesterday. I was pleased to see it was the same as last month. A total of $2.57 was directly deposited into my checking account. I am not sure how many book sales… Read More ›
IT HELPS IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
“Something to say.” — Blogging Insights 3.0 # 4 I would say it another way: “Writing is easy. Getting a book published is hard.” For many or most writers, they have no problem putting words on a page. Turning those… Read More ›
THE BOOK WORLD AND MEMORIES THEREOF – Marilyn Armstrong
I usually say I wouldn’t want to ever work again, but I got to thinking about that. I realized if I could get back my job as an editor at Doubleday? I’d do it in a heartbeat. How many jobs… Read More ›
THE GIFT OF WORDS – Marilyn Armstrong
And thus shall I bestow upon you the gift of gab, the talent of words, the ability to write with clarity and precision. Congratulations. You are a writer. But — how do you know? Because you write. Could you be… Read More ›
SNOOPY AS A ROLE MODEL – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I read a unique article in the Washington Post by a writer talking about something from her childhood that inspired her to be a writer as an adult. Her name is Ann Patchett and her title names the motivating force… Read More ›
MINIMALIST PUBLISHING – Marilyn Armstrong
Why do publishers ONLY publish potential best-sellers? Many books we read from in those old days were not wildly popular. Publishers understood a good book deserved publication, even if it wouldn’t be a bestseller. Our literature would be a very… Read More ›
SO MARTHA ASKED, “CAN YOU ENFORCE IT?” – Marilyn Armstrong
Wednesday RDP – COPYRIGHT Martha wrote a little piece this morning titled “Can You Enforce it? (and Rambling Nonsense) by Martha Ann Kennedy. It’s good reading. Pretty much everything Martha writes is good reading, even when I don’t agree but especially… Read More ›
BESTOWING THE GIFT OF WORDS – Marilyn Armstrong
And thus shall I bestow upon you the gift of gab, the talent of words, the ability to write with clarity and precision. Congratulations. You are a writer. But — how do you know? Because you write. Could you be… Read More ›
PONDERING PUBLISHING AND THE WORLD GONE BY
I usually say I wouldn’t want to ever work again, but I got to thinking about that. I realized if I could get back my job as editor at Doubleday? I’d do it in a heartbeat. How many jobs give… Read More ›
RENEW NOW AND SAVE BIG!
2016 was the year that we stopped ignoring the news and began watching it with a kind of horrified fascination. At first, we thought it was funny. Ridiculous. This couldn’t be serious. It was a goof and everyone was going… Read More ›
A HARD AND ROCKY ROAD: WHY AUTHORING DOESN’T PAY
I probably will never need to buy another book. I’m a popular reviewer. When I worked at Doubleday, I was extremely popular there, too. Probably because I read the books. So many reviewers don’t read the books they review. You can tell… Read More ›