Much of my research into digital book promotion suggested that freebies are a great way to get new readers to take a chance on your work, inspire good will with a potential long term readership, and create buzz for your work as a whole and you as an author. It’s also very easy to do…
I rediscovered my twitter account a few months ago and tweeted for the first time in a couple of years. “Wow, I still have a twitter account?” I was surprised by the reply that came almost immediately. It was from a man who I respect, whose career I always followed with great interest, and who…
I generally don’t like to talk about politics or religion – “Damnit, Jim, I’m a writer, not a political pundit!” – but it seems like we’ve backslid about sixty years in the past few months, especially regarding women’s rights and the idea that the United States of America is not now, nor has ever been,…
“The only thing more embarrassing than catching a guy on the plane looking at pornography on his computer is seeing a guy on the plane reading The Hunger Games.” Joel Stein, a columnist for Time magazine, started a recent article in the New York Times Opinion Page with the above line. I stopped reading there…