Have you thought of offering NFTs of your work? This question keeps coming up for some reason. To understand what NFT is, you have to first learn about etherium and blockchains. Etherium is a cryptocurrency, like bitcoin. You know how you go to an arcade and you buy tokens? Same principle, but digital. To really
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Erin’s NanoWrimo Part 2
We are back to Erin’s NanoWrimo. Much thanks to Mod R for chatting a bit more with Erin to gather background info. Worldbuilding Erin’s world is a place where magic is relatively mundane. Some people have the ability to sense the energy or the patterns within the world and can manipulate it in minor ways,
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Was it Pretty?
This is your pick me up, in case you are struggling with writing or something else today. Number of times Gordon and I looked at the manuscript: 6. Number of professional editors who also looked at it: 4. Number of beta readers who looked at it: 6. Around them the forest breathed. Swarms of purple
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Erin’s NanoWrimo, Part 1
One of our longtime readers would like to participate in NanoWrimo. What is NanoWrimo? NanoWrimo is a way to accomplish something most people will never do in their lifetime – to complete a novel. People do this for different reasons. Some want to try writing, others are attracted to the challenge, or want to be
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Edits and More Edits
Would you be willing to share what sort of things constitute editorial changes? I am a beta reader for a couple of authors, but I’d love to be able to do more. Editorial changes come in different varieties. Content editorial changes. These are the changes made by the primary editor on the first pas through
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Deadlines
Are book deadlines normally agreed between writer/s and publisher or imposed by publisher? And are there any consequences for missing them? Is there a way to negotiate deadlines that is mental health-friendly to the author? The deadlines are negotiated at contract stage in broad terms, meaning the contract states that the publisher will bring the
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Effect of Marketing
August blog prompts have arrived, so here we go. How much does marketing count at the release of a new book? I saw a tweet from another author which said “There is no such thing as “your book wouldn’t sell”. There is only “I don’t know how to sell your book”. There is a market
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Bitter Disappointment
I’ve listened to the entire audiobook of Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It was a good book. It had a lot of science. I did not like the way it ended! Yeah, yeah, I get the set up for it and bitter sweet and all that, but I did not like it. I didn’t want
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Music, Covers, and Fainting Fans
State of House Andrews: the copyedits for the Fated Blades novella are finished. It came in at 45,000 words so double the typical novella length. I will post more once we have the cover. Blog prompts, here we go. Do you have a favourite meeting with a reader or reader interaction? Something that marked you
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Eh…
“Where did you get this?” Connor asked. “That’s not important,” Alessandro told him. Nevada leaned forward. “Bern, did you hack the MII servers?” Bern looked at her for a moment. Of course no Phone rings, local number so not spam. Our cells still have the Oregon area codes, so all spam comes from the West
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Writer work
For reasons I do not want to discuss I had to make this map. Behold. ::rolls eyes so far that she can see her hair grow::: I suppose I will have to make one for HL as well for reference.
Stories From the Writer Desk
Sometimes when writers are working, our minds enter this strange place where reality is a bit distorted. Me: Canadian High Society. Google: Canada High Society, a community of cannabis connoisseurs. Me, very tired and misreading: A community of cannibal connoisseurs? In Canada? They are so polite, why in the world would they allow cannibalism… Is
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