Scath | July 19, 2010
There will be a paranormal slant coming along. © G L Drummond, 2010. All Rights Reserved. *** Chapter One A frown spread as I glanced at the man sprawled across the bed. He wasn’t it; wasn’t him. None of them had been, at least not for more than a few moments. Those moments done and [...]
Category: Excerpts |
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Tags: paranormal, WIP, writing
Scath | July 8, 2010
We are back with another reading quenching promo! This one is on my to be read list! *** Dragon Wars Becka Sutton One of the pains for the independent author is self-promotion. We tend to be introverted and lacking in self-confidence – blowing our own trumpets feels painfully unnatural to many of us. I’m no [...]
Category: Thirsty Thursdays |
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Tags: #webfic, Fantasy, promotion, writers, writing
Scath | July 7, 2010
I read three different blog posts by traditional publishing employee types last night, and in each, those who self-publish were called ‘losers’. You know, because EVERYBODY who chooses to self-publish has been rejected by traditional publishers hundreds or thousands of times because their work ‘just wasn’t ready’, or plain sucked and should never try to crawl out of [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Babble, Goals, readers, self publishing, writers, writing
Scath | July 6, 2010
Last night, I set some goals for completing various titles in progress. This may prove boring – you’ve been warned.
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: e-books, Goals, word counts, writing
Scath | July 5, 2010
Come November, I’ll have been at this indie author/self-publishing pursuit for three years. I don’t expect I’ll know much more about how it all works by then than I currently do, because it’s a puzzling business. Starting out with original fiction back in June 2007 (okay, there were a few instances prior to that, but [...]
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: #webfic, Amazon, Babble, Challenges, e-books, Goals, readers, self publishing, Smashwords, word counts, writing