Archive for March 2011
Walk Inside the Poem’s Room
I’ll start with a confession. I’ve never particularly liked poetry. I read everything quickly, skipping words and phrases that seem extraneous. I want to get right to the heart of a story, a description, an insight. I rarely linger. I rarely pause to reflect. This is odd coming from an author whose novels tend to…
Read MoreWatch Out, Jessica Fletcher, Here I Come
Author Casey Daniels once referred to an event in a mutual friend’s writing career as a “Murder She Wrote” moment. Not because our friend Diane found a dead body or solved a murder (although she certainly has written wonderful novels about both) but because she had actually been treated like the star she is during a visit…
Read MoreCockalorums, Lickspittles and Snollygosters
Today I’m on my way to Hamburg, Germany, where I’ll be doing publicity for my German TV movies, plus spending time with my German publisher, CORA Verlag. I wrote this blog in preparation, but I’ll catch you up on my trip next Friday. Meantime enjoy. Let me tell you about my secret addiction. Nothing illegal, mind you,…
Read MoreHow Hard Can It Be? Publishing an eBook.
Last Friday at Southern Exposure I posted the original covers of my novels Once More With Feeling and Twice Upon A Time, and showed the way the eBook cover for Twice Upon A Time grew from stock photography to finished product. Twice Upon A Time was the easiest. I immediately found several photographs I liked, including one…
Read MoreCan You Judge An eBook By Its Cover?
I’ll confess of the more than sixty books I’ve written, I’ve had good covers and not-so-good covers. I’ve had a few great ones, too. Not surprisingly, those books sold the best. Have I made my point succinctly? Covers make a difference. A very big difference. And sometimes it’s hard to get them right. When I decided to…
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