I just finished off two blog entries for my pseudonym, and yesterday wrote a guest blog entry for somebody else’s blog, and now, here I am, writing again for you. One of the questions authors keep asking themselves is, how much promotion do I *have* to do?  Do I have to blog/Facebook/tweet/Goodreads/ whatever-is-the-next-big-thing? When I tell [...]

My father used to tell me “It’s not what you know it’s who you know.”  He was a wise man able to offer a pithy remark for just about any circumstance and his words of wisdom stuck with me because they are true. On the morning of my thirty-second wedding anniversary (apropos of nothing except [...]

Shortly after this post goes live, I’ll be on a train from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. so I may attend CapClave, sponsored by the Washington Science Fiction Association. It’s a fairly small conference if you’re used to behemoths like Dragon Con. CapClave usually features one track of panels and one of readings, as well as [...]

I believe one of the best things about the NINC conferences is that the members really get a lot for their registration fee. The first year I coordinated Night Owls we did two hours of roundtable discussions on internet promotional venues. My Space and podcasting were the big new opportunities for the tech savvy novelist [...]