Wyso And The Other Creepy Kids on Gerard Street
Man's Best
Sparkers
Better Dig 2
blog post #48 by Science Fiction Author Clara Bush Image at Pixabay by Simon Before writing his 1906 bestselling novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover in Chicago meatpacking plants. His purpose in writing his political fiction was to rally support for the factory workers. Sinclair’s graphic details depicting the sale of spoiled beef, […]
Self-Publishing Motivation. Carl Sandburg and Henry David Thoreau On Writing.
Pixabay Image by inspiredimages Summer invaded. Visitors. Camping trips. Family. And my writing went the way of dead spring flowers—faded and dismissed—praying for a rain endowed wind or hungry bird to escort them to fertile fields. Sparkers, Novella III of my The Creep Mesquite Anthology is due to release in August, and I’m currently on my […]
#3 To Do— Self-Publishing a Science Fiction eBook. Or Any Fiction.
Get A Book Doctor If you are a STARVING writer, you might be saying, I can’t even afford ink for my printer. How in the heck does this lady think I can afford a Book Doctor? This is the way I rationalized it. Basically, you are starting a small business. Any business will […]
#2 To Do Is A Don’t—Self-Publishing a Science Fiction eBook. Or Any Fiction.
Don’t ask family, friends, neighbors, family to read your manuscript. Did I say family twice? Those you hold dear will not ask to read that which you hold dear. Or it is unlikely, but don’t ask. Save yourself. Lawrence Block in Telling Lies For Fun and Profit says it best: —And I won’t deny your […]
Self-Publishing a Science Fiction eBook. Or Any Fiction. Things You Need To Do. Or Know. Or Ought To Do And Know.
In my short history of self-publishing Science Fiction eBooks, there are several profound things I have learned—profound mistakes to be more exact. Over the next several blogs, I will share these things I wished I had known before I ever started writing, and definitely before my first self-published eBook. Due to everyone’s busy schedule and […]