Tag Archives: Self-Publishing

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest Update

May

04

Last Tuesday I found out that my novel Food and Worry didn’t make the latest round in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. I’m disappointed but still believe that Food and Worry is great. Since the novel was published in November … Continue reading →

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“McQuestionable Musings” about Self-Publishing

Apr

21

Karen McQuestion is one of the most successful novelists to emerge from Amazon’s CreateSpace platform. To quote her bio: “I’m the author of six books, including the novel, A Scattered Life, which has been optioned for film. Five of those … Continue reading →

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Guest-blogged for The Writer’s Center

Feb

24

The Writer’s Center’s “First Personal Plural” blog kindly reposted the two-part series about self-publishing that I did for Leslie Pietrzyk’s Work-in-Progress blog. Here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2. And on this blog, please click the “Self-Publishing” … Continue reading →

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Update

Feb

24

First, a grateful welcome to anyone visiting this blog for the first time via The Writer’s Center’s “First Person Plural” blog. I just checked out Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award Update for the zillionth time this morning and I made it … Continue reading →

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One Week in a Novelist’s Promo-Life

Feb

06

On this public version of my promo diary excerpt, I’ve removed specific names of the people and organizations that I reached out to. I don’t want to make any of them feel self-conscious if they turn down one of my … Continue reading →

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Deadline 2/6

Feb

01

I want to encourage unpublished and self-published novelists to join me in entering Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest. There are two categories, General Fiction and Young Adult Fiction. The deadline is Sunday, February 6 at midnight. The winner gets $15,000 … Continue reading →

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Bibliography: Self-Format & Self-Publish Your Novel

Jan

21

Introduction: This bibliography is too dense to read in one sitting (not that you make a habit of reading bibliographies in one sitting, unless you’re having trouble falling asleep). If you read this all at once, you will run away … Continue reading →

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Self-Publishing and Self-Formatting a Novel

Jan

20

I’m excited to announce that Leslie Pietrzyk (novelist/writer/literary blogger extraordinaire) just published an article I wrote about my self-publishing/self-formatting experience. The article appears on her Work-in-Progress blog, and it is a step-by-step overview of the lessons I learned from publishing my … Continue reading →

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My novels are available!

Nov

05

What are Food and Worry and Six Words about? Click here to go to  “My Books” page. Where can I buy them and in which formats? Click here. If you like them, please consider posting a review or status update … Continue reading →

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