Month: October 2011

  • Production Covers and NEW Afterwords: Arhel Trilogy, and Sympathy for the Devil

    First, I’ve decided to write a new afterword for every one of my books I reprint. One of the things I did last week. 😀 I had a lot of fun writing them, and got to talk about the experience of writing them, and then working with them again years later. I also got the…

  • The Blog Rules Discussion

    This post exists so that if you have specific questions about the rules on this blog, you can ask them. It does not exist for you to debate examples I’ve used to demonstrate the rules. I will happily answer your questions about the rules. I will delete debate. This is not a debate post. Download…

  • A pic from my office: My path-to-freedom workboard

    If you’ve taken any of my courses (or read some of my more detail-oriented posts, you’ll recognize me as big on goal-setting, getting a plan in place, and making sure it’s where you can see it. So the day before yesterday, I erased all the short-term stuff off my office workboard, and put up my…

  • Now writing: How To Invent and Use Your EXCLUSIVE Self-Publishing Genre

    I’m now writing the first of the special Self-Publishing lessons for HTTS.  It’ll be Lesson 7 in the public course (Kindle-Nook-iTunes if possible-print).  And Lesson 6B in the Legacy course, because I’m a complete wuss and I don’t want to have to totally rebuild the entire course across 12 variations every time I add one…

  • Answers to the Eleven Big ‘I’m Quitting Teaching’ Questions

    I was overwhelmed by the number of responses to my 51st birthday post and the announcement I made about quitting teaching. In those responses, I ran across ten questions that needed a response everyone could read, and I realized there was one question no one had asked, but that desperately needed an answer. So I’ve…

  • Fifty-One: At The Start Of My Second Half-Century, I’m Rethinking Everything

    Inertia’s a bitch. It can mean doing nothing until something kicks you out of your complacency and starts you rolling. But inertia can also summon up Newton’s First Law, part of which is: “An object in motion remains in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced…

  • Beating the Publishing Odds

    What are the odds of getting a book published professionally nowadays? I’ve read everywhere from one in 5000 to one in 12,000 to one in 100,000. They’re high. Not quite win-the-lottery odds, but high. You think you’re lucky enough to beat them? I do. Consider this. You are the product of 100% survivors. Since the…