Category: Indie Author
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New Review: The Recluse Storyteller
LitWorldInterviews posted a wonderful review of “The Recluse Storyteller” by their reviewer Colleen Chesebro. It’s a wonderfully written and thorough review. Here’s the overall marks: Ratings: Realistic Characterization: 5/5 Made Me Think: 4/5 Overall enjoyment: 5/5 Readability: 4/5 Recommended: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4.5 I’m honored that she read and enjoyed it. Please head over and read the entire review. Well worth…
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Don’t Take Good Ideas for Granted. Plan ahead!
Have you ever been in such a good creative patch that you are overflowing with ideas and not enough time to accomplish them all? Relish those days. That’s what I keep telling myself. I am currently overflowing with ideas. I’ve started to map out my drama writing 13 months in advance because I’m producing too…
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Ways to write when you have no time to write.
Does this happen to you? You finally get some good, extended, quality time for writing, and you whip off thousands of words day after day in a frenzy of creativity only to have life slap you in the face and say, “Slow down. You have other things to do.” Grrrr. How true it is! Last…
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Chapter Titles or Chapter Numbers?
It was my wife that put me on to this one. One of her pet peeves is when authors only used numbers to differentiate between chapters. That is … Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, etc … As she says, it’s extremely boring and not very useful. She loves it when authors take the time…
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An Indie Author Ready for the Future of Publishing
Literary agent Andrew Lownie in THIS article recently stated that he believes that nearly 75% of published books within then next 5-10 years will be self-published. This announcement has certainly turned the writing blog-o-sphere on its nose with both excitement and scorn. Of course, this is mere conjuncture, but even the pronouncement has some broad and interesting…
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Thinking is Writing (aka: writing in a pool)
Thinking is writing. I’ve said this before, but the longer I’ve been a writer the truer it becomes. (Sometimes to the detriment to the people around me. I am not ignoring you on purpose.) A writer friend mentioned yesterday that I should do some writing without paper, pencil or device. I took the advice. I…
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Speed Writing. Speed Publishing. A Great Afternoon.
Besides being a writer, I’m a teacher. Sometimes those two facts collide. Like yesterday. It was at the beginning of the high school-wide parent-teacher conference when I was sitting at my desk minding my own business. A colleague, who is in charge of the forensics team, came to me with an urgent request: could I…
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Now what? Novel four in a waiting game.
This is an exciting time for any novelist – a second draft of my latest novel is complete and I am now sending it off to some trusted readers for feedback. Exciting, yet scary. No one else has even seen a word of this novel, and now about eight people will be receiving it, tasked…
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I’m sure my writing is uneven because my brain is uneven
Before bed last night, I clicked on Scrivener to read over a chapter from my new novel. I was tired and had few expectations for greatness as my blurry eyes started scanning down the page. And then the strangest thing happened, words flew randomly out of my head, and they made sense. Some even bordered…
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Media, Content, Reporting – In the Hands of Individuals. (AKA – Everyone’s going indie)
One of the sports columnists from my hometown in Pittsburgh, PA recently caused a seismic shift in the sports reporting landscape by going indie. Dejan Kovecivic is an award-winning columnists and sports journalists who grew up in Pittsburgh and spent the last couple decades working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and then, the last couple of…
Author Mark W Sasse 