Self-Publishing in S. India: A Guest Blog Post by Nadira Cotticollan Traditional publishing, the kind that engages literary agents and monolithic publishing companies, has always been a challenge for writers. In my quest to find either for my soon-to-be-released novels, “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat” and “Tango & the Sitting Cat,” it feels akin […]
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Transgender Rights, Coyotes, Girl Scouts, and Gaslighting: with Videos I was in the middle of working out some particularly knotty bits of writing my novels when sweet K-D doggie dropped a ball at my feet. Her message was loud and clear: it was time for a walk. A couple of blocks into our stroll, we […]
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Coyotes, People, Girl Scouts, and Gaslighting with Videos I was in the middle of working out some particularly knotty bits of writing my novels when sweet K-D doggie dropped a ball at my feet. Her message was loud and clear: it was time for a walk. A couple of blocks into our stroll, we encountered this […]
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Novelist Jacqueline Diamond Has Published 100+ Books! Writing my first novel is hard work. Veteran writers have a lot to teach us. Take Jacqueline Diamond, for instance. She’s published — drumroll here — 102 (maybe more by the time you read this) books! It’s no wonder she won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and […]
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Video: Cool Doggie Days + Lillian Brummet’s Leeks Recipe K-D takes her singing seriously. Even writers get hungry. When I hit a rough patch as I edit “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat,” my novel, it’s fortunate I’ve got my workmate who reminds me to break for lunch. Having her beside me as I eat on […]
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From Novel to Big Screen: how Gabriel Constans turns novels into movies! Are you a novelist? I’m working on “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat.” Wait — let me start over — regardless of whether you’re a fiction writer, have you ever wondered what it’s like to complete a book and then see it made into […]
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Author Reality + Charles Sterling on Marketing and Author Platform Marketing, building a platform as a writer… There’s more to being a novelist than most people assume. I’m no expert on how to market fiction writing. Although I’ve produced video documentaries, radio news, published non-fiction articles and a short story or two, I’m still editing […]
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Ableism: Discrimination Against Disabled People by The Wheelchair Teen The act of writing forces us to contemplate things more deeply, to question what we believe. Bloggers, novelists, all writers lay ourselves bare when we publish. When we communicate our passions, readers are challenged to think — and they challenge us! Thank goodness for the world of […]
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