One of the things I appreciate about being an RWA member (yes, I’m also a SFWA member, and an SCBWI member if it comes to that) is the interesting articles in the Romance Writers’ Report.  I often recommend RWA to authors in many genres because of the group’s focus on business, craft and professionalism.  So [...]

Independently publishing one’s own books is an interesting journey.  The conventional wisdom is you shouldn’t proceed without professional cover art if you want your book to sell.  I was referred to cover artist Katerina Vamvasaki by another author. After informing her I’d never done this before, I initially e-mailed her the following: There a couple [...]

The Art of Running Your Business by M.J. Rose  Writing is an art and publishing is a business. Authors need to be the best artists they can be. That’s never changed.  But in the last ten years what has changed is we have to be involved in more of business than we ever did before [...]

I’m writing this on a late July morning, one of the few truly summer-like days we’ve had in the Northwest this weird year. It was one hell of a rainy winter. Darn near the rainiest on record. And of course along with downpour upon downpour comes cold. More than enough cold thank you very much. [...]