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Deb Coates Day Two: 10 Things About Growing Up Reading
[Forward][Back]1. I learned to read before I went to kindergarten. This is the advantage of an older brother.2. We went to the local library (which was tiny!) once a week. Kids could only check out...
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Deb Coates Day 3: Editing...who knew?
[Forward][Back]So, I grew up in a great place with parents who loved to read and a love of books myself. But I didn't, particularly, aspire to be a writer. My brothers and sister and I wrote plays...
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Deb Coates Day 4: And Then There Were Short Stories
[Forward][Back]This is Novel Spot and mostly I think I'm supposed to be talking about novels, but I wouldn't really be talking about my path to publication if I didn't take a brief side trip and talk...
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Deb Coates Day 5: Dogs--Before and After
[Forward][Back]I wasn't entirely sure where to put this post in the order of things. I started writing short stories before I had dogs, but I didn't sell until after. Dogs and good writing--for me,...
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Deb Coates Day 6: Stepping Sideways into Novels
[Forward][Back]I don't want to call this 'stepping up' to novels because short stories aren't a lesser thing. Sometimes they don't even take less time. But they are a different thing. I talked a bit in...
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16th Annual Northern Arizona Book Festival
Would you like to promote your book or do you have a book related business or organization? If so, you may sign-up now for a table at the 2013 Book Festival. Space is limited and will be scheduled on...
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Deb Coates Day 7: Knowing People Does Help--Don't Let Anyone Tell You Different
[Back] What it doesn't do is make you a better writer or guarantee that your novel is good enough. Knowing people doesn't get your book published if it's not a book that someone thinks can be marketed...
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Wordstock
It's springtime in Oregon and we're making it rain--books that is. Book submissions are pouring in from all over the country, OBA is right around the corner honoring Wordstock's own Larry Colton and...
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The Tax Man Cometh
The good news is that the investments of time and energy you have poured into your writing career are finally starting to pay off. Literally. Whether this takes the form of book advances, royalties,...
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Shop talk, a new column by Damon Ferrell Marbutshop talk: Vocabulary.com [home, info] shop-talk, shop talk: Wordnik [home, info] shop talk: Dictionary.com [home, info] shop talk: UltraLingua English...
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GMC, Eight-Point Arc and Show Make for a Rounded Experience
Have you ever read a book and thought something was missing? Although you enjoyed the story, it left you wishing for something you don’t quite know what? You see that complaint in reviews all the time...
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The High Price of Self Promotion
I attended conference last year where Jane Porter spoke. She is a popular Harlequin author. She flirted with other publishers, but stayed with Harlequin because all she had to do was write. She didn’t...
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The Shill Factor
In your mind’s eye, you’ve always pictured what your first book-signing event would be like – standing room only at the store, throngs of buyers eagerly clutching their copies for you to autograph,...
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Where The Hell Is Fiction Going?
Self-published and indie authors are certainly better off if they take a moment to look at what they're writing, but also, to know in truth what they're writing should be called and what it's meant to...
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Striving for Historical Accuracy
How important is it to be historically correct? My husband ponders this aloud as I comb through various books and Internet sources attempting to figure out how they lit fires in 1865. I naturally...
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(Radio) Talk Is Cheap
The day he typed “The End” on his 111,000 word novel, a first-time author friend of ours called to ask me what he said was a really, really important question.“What is it?” I asked.“What do you think...
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Cover Reveals
There are many ways to create and heighten the expectative among readers about your upcoming title and one of the most popular ways is a cover reveal. Getting bloggers, reviewers and readers involved...
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The Importance Of Author Interaction
In the past six months, I started a promotional author website and became a book tour host. This may seem like a counter intuitive action for an author. Shouldn’t I be promoting my own books? Yes and...
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All This Time Bitching and Competing...
...could be spent writing. Or it could be spent reading, studying, PRACTICING, learning one's best sense of craft. In the end, what should matter most is that a writer performs at the peak of her...
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Saving Writers From Their Own Bad Judgment
If you saw someone driving at breakneck speed in the darkness toward a washed out bridge, would you frantically wave your hands and try to stop them or would you put those same hands in your pockets,...
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