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Category: self-publish

  • IWSG May 2023

    What inspires me to write these days? I would say escapism, but every time I start to escape, something happens, requiring a rather hard turn-around with a dead-stick landing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know the sob story, Katty. Though, any landing you walk away from is a good one, right? In every story, you…

  • IWSG April 2023

    Yes, I’ve dropped the ball on posting these a couple three times. There’s been a lot going on that I’m still trying to get through. Oh, will the mucky-yuckiness of inconvenient adulting every stop? Or at least ease up a bit? Like, what the hell? And I keep getting squirreled. Onward! To the Question at…

  • IWSG September

    What publishing path are you considering and why? This is a loaded question. Lots of baggage here. Back in my carefree and foolish youth, I thought my writing was BRILLIANT! (It was not, but everyone starts somewhere.) I thought I was a damned GENIUS! (Once again, not so much, but there’s a learning curve.) At…

  • IWSG August

    August 1 question – What pitfalls would you warn other writers to avoid on their publication journey? Oh, this one is going to be rich since I haven’t actually published anything yet. I’m going to be looking at things from a self-publishing angle, so if that isn’t your cup of tea, you can skip this…

  • The Point of Publishing…

    I’m not there yet. I’m a slow writer. I’ve learned through observation that the masses do not want to wait 2 years in between books that are all a part of the same series (well, not anymore – 30 years ago, there wasn’t much of a choice, but now…). If you make them wait, you…

  • Looking at How I’m Going to Get There

    One of my personal self-publishing heroes is Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you haven’t read her posts, especially her Wednesday Business Musings, you are seriously missing out. (I would donate or do the Patreon thing to support her if I could, by my own financial demands are such that I can’t at this moment in time.…