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Self-help for Stoners is now available on Stitcher (plus the Christmas...
Self-help for Stoners is also available, as usual, at iTunes or straight from my website (which, as of this week, is now all mine) at allthatchazz.com.
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Indie publishing is getting better
No, this is not a call to publish your first draft, damn of consequences to readers' understanding and comfort and ease up on yourself as a writer. This is a call for us to celebrate the many authors...
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Writing in the Second Person, Present Tense (Like a Boss!)
A defiant update: I am 7,650 words into writing the second book in my crime series as I await fresh edits on the first book. It’s going well after a little convo with one of my weapons experts. It’s a...
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Traditional vs. self publishing. Which would you choose?
See on Scoop.it – Writing and reading fiction You know what I love about this post? Mr. Ing doesn’t have an agenda. He’s asking an honest question and I love the cost-benefit analysis he’s offering us...
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Author Blog Challenge: I love the voices in my head
What's fun is, eventually, I'm going to have all these characters meet in one book, but they have a lot of work to do before they meet. I have a lot of books to write before that happens, too. It's...
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Don’t Be the Sneetch: An Open Letter Response to Shannon Hale
See on Scoop.it – Writing and reading fiction This was an interesting post. The original post Anna Elliot refers to (Shannon Hale slamming self-publishing and asserting the superiority of the rotten...
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Author Blog Challenge 21: My Top 20 Best (Worst?) Advice for Authors
This is my snarkiest post in quite some time. For some reason, when I write this way, the voice in my head sounds like an angry lower middle-class Englishman who's too long at the pub. Come for the...
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Ultimate Blog Challenge: Get yourself free
To the boss, the publisher, the financial adviser, the various people who called me friend but acted differently when it suited them: I am thinking of a two-word answer.
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UBC #31: Ebooks are the new slush pile. Are they the new blog, too?
Publishing our blogs on self-publishing platforms is one way, largely unexplored, we can make more sales because we're reaching people who are already in the book marketing venue.
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We’re Indie. We don’t lie down.
It's not easy being indie. We're still largely ignored by mainstream media. It's hard to get reviews. Bookstore managers tend to look at us with nail heads for eyes.
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Ebook pricing, free promotions and you
Here comes the one and only, big giveaway of Season One of This Plague of Days. For two days, it the complete first season of an autistic boy versus the apocalypse. Author/publishers, here's the...
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What resources do new publishers need (besides a darn good book)?
What we need. Friends might be #1 actually.
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To all writers: A Call to End Hostilities (and focus on writing)
I should be writing my book and not blogging, so I’ll try to make this brief. This week someone I like very much called for self-publishers to stop pooping on traditional publishers for their choice to...
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Cost control for the Indie Author
Everybody asks about keeping costs down. Mark Victor Young has some thoughts on that. I've known Mark for a while now, and every time I see his full name, it looks like Mark Victory Young to me (which...
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