The Writing Biz Meets Pop Culture
March is just around the corner. Let’s kick it off with a contest that may be of great interest to those with bilingual skills who published a translation of literature from any language into English in 2009. The American Literary Translators Association sponsors the $2,500 National Translation Award. This is open to book-length works [...]
Breaking into the children’s book market is really hard. That’s a truth writers confront when they start pursuing publication in that genre. Why? I guess because a good book for children never gets old or goes out of print. I read Poky Little Puppy when I was a child. I read it to my daughter [...]
I read an interesting article about slang usage. I often include current slang words and/or phrases in my freelance writing because they give a certain immediacy and conversational tone that make the content accessible to a wide audience. Not only do kids and those who strive to be ultra cool talk in the latest slang [...]
Today has been one of those days when I would rather have stayed in bed.
I drove home late Saturday night from the farm where I’d been working on cleaning out my late mother’s home. The seven hour drive was made bearable by the unabridged book on CD, Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters [...]
Promotion. Publicity. Public Relations. Those three are sometimes used interchangeably, but promotion is really the building built on the foundation of the other two.Do you know the difference between publicity and public relations? If you have an Internet business, then you darn well need to know the difference because then you’ll know how to drive [...]
If you think you have a book cover that’s stunning, there’s still time to see if booksellers who comprise a panel of judges agree with you.
Enter the JABBIC (Judge A Book By Its Cover) by January 15. This annual contest is sponsored by the Houston Bay Area Romance Writers of America Chapter.
Reasons To Enter
1. Winning [...]
Running Hot by Jayne Ann Krentz
Mass Market Paperback: 447 pages
Publisher: Jove
Copyright: Mass Market Edition, January 2010
ISBN: 978-0-515-14738-4
Running Hot by the multi-talented and multi-published Jayne Ann Krentz, aka Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle, is Book 5 in the Arcane Society series wherein the hero and heroine are possessed with various paranormal talents. In case you don’t [...]
I’ve been cleaning out my office and am aghast at the multiple piles of paper that I’ve accumulated this year. Most of this clutter are articles and research I’ve printed in order to read at a later date. The trouble is the time never opens up for me to sit down and read this wonderful [...]
We’re one month closer to one of the biggest parties in Texas. Have you got your RodeoHouston tickets yet?
Action Seats
The 2010 Houston Rodeo & Livestock Show is set for March 2 through the 21. Since the best seats go first, you need to be scouting out the TeamOneTickets website now if you want one of [...]
My friend Brenda Hiatt creates an annual report of how much authors are actually getting from publishers for novels. She just updated the information for 2009. If you’ve ever wondered what Bantam or Harlequin or St. Martin’s Press or any of the other publishers pay in advances and royalties, as well as how much the [...]
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