As has been my tradition for several years, I enjoy starting out the new year with reflections on my favorite read in the year before. The books (or book, as is the case this year) don’t have to be releases …
What Good is a Library?
Most book lovers find the question, What good is a library, silly. “For research and for checking out books,” is the answer to that question, of course.
I couldn’t agree more. The day my mother escorted me to the library …
Your Publishing Experience Is Not Everyone’s Experience
wWriters talk to writers. Pretty much all the time. They share what each step of the publishing experience is like for them. Other writers listen. And the more renowned an author, the closer newer writers lean in. I’m sure newbies …
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Writers’ love-hate relationship with punctuation
Periodically someone will post on Facebook their opinion of a certain punctuation mark. Comments in response unfurl like a long serpent below the post. Neutrality tends not to exist in those comments. In this way I’ve learned that writers, in …
PR=Publishing Relations
Writers soon learn that to be a successful author one needs to be one’s own PR staff, communicating regularly and engagingly with potential readers. But some authors never figure out that they have an equally important audience to communicate with–also …
AI Update: Good Enough
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I’ve continued to read about AI since I wrote my blog post on ways publishing could productively and creatively use this force. This week I spied several articles that caught my attention, causing me to want to share this …
Nonfiction Book Structure: The Table of Contents
As I mentioned in my most recent blog, a strong structure invites the reader into your book. Your table of contents is a big selling point–not only for readers but also for agents and editors. I like to think of …
Finding Your Book’s Structure
A strong structure for your book sustains a reader’s interest. So today we’ll consider how to find your book’s structure.
Recently I was looking over the table of contents for a project one of my clients was creating. It seemed …
AI and Publishing’s Future
About a month ago, one of my daughters, who works for an online security company, startled me by the question she posed, “What is publishing doing to prepare for people who use AI to write books?”
I hadn’t paid much …
Let’s Talk about Our Favorite Read–2022
Here go, skipping off into a brand new year. But before we travel too far into 2023, I’m continuing my tradition of my first blog post each year being a retrospective of the books I dwelled within the year before.…