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5 More Genre Clichés That Need a Stake Through the Heart (…Or Are They...
Sorry I’ve been M.I.A. for the last three or four days. My plate is pretty swarmed at the moment with wrapping up The Last Cup (second round of edits now underway), designing artistic content for The...
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ATTENTION: Help a Fellow Indie Writer and Friend
Hey everyone, So my dear indie author comrade Emily Walker is kickstarting a Kickstarter campaign for her book, Zombified, in order to help pay an editor and cover some of her other fees. She would...
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The Summary of All Fears: A Few More Points on Writing Your Synopsis
UPDATE: I fixed the title. I meant to play on “Sum of all fears”, not evils. Guess I had it confused with “Root of all evil”. I’m not sure what a “Sum of all evils” is, however (in keeping with the...
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Sean’s Top 7 Indie Author Annoyances
A mass of writhing arms and desperate fingers all outstretched and grasping for lifeforce clamors around me. The lights are blinding and all we can hear is the incessant droning of some pacifying...
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Odds & Ends (AUGUST 2012)
Howdy, Readers & Well-Wishers! While I’m working on my next full post for this page, which should be available sometime today or tomorrow, I just wanted to tie up a few loose ends here and there....
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It’s a Trap! Admiral Ackbar’s 6 Indie Author Traps to Avoid
If my most recent post (“Sean’s Top 7 Indie Author Annoyances”) is any indication, my fine readers seem to love when I vent about the frustrations we indie authors endure. And why not? After all, we...
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4 Soul-Crushing Realities Indie Writers Must Learn to Face
The Sauron comparison makes sense: I’m about one more rejection letter away from trying to enslave the human race. I’ve actually been sitting on this article for several months now, but I never...
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Looks like self-publishing will be a hot topic at the Writers Digest West...
Reblogged from Author Solutions - The Indie Book Writers Blog | Self Publishing | Get Published: Writer’s Digest has hosted one of the most respected conferences in New York City in January for quite...
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Requiem for a Meme: “Grammar Nazi” (2003-2012)
It has come to my attention that I may have reached my bellyaching quota for the week, so today I would like to turn my attention to something completely different: Grammar Nazis. To many people who...
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Going on Hiatus
Greetings friends, Yes, it’s true: I am taking a break for a while. For the past several weeks, I have been battling some pretty serious depression and I feel that the time has come for me to take...
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