Month: August 2012

  • Apple Has Started Listening to Indie Publishers

    I and other indie publishers received notice from Apple that the company has changed the way it deals with indie publishers. To better serve your needs, English-language phone support is now available to iBookstore publishers. With this new option, we now offer four ways to get answers to your questions: The Book Forum is a…

  • Saturday Snippet, and My first week back to full-time fiction.

    I had a blast this week—and fairly late yesterday, I realized why. It is the first week in several years where all I did was write. I did not build site infrastructure, work on website design, put together HTML for lessons, prep courses for formatting, design book covers, design lessons, test plugins, install plugins, upload…

  • Laura Howard’s Self-Pub Interview with Me

    Laura Howard and I talked via Skype for about an hour on self-publishing. Her site is here, and I recommend you drop by, because she has a LOT of other interviews besides mine there. And it’s a good site, and she’s a cool person. Laura Howard: Finding Bliss You can find the interview there, along…

  • WABWM: Official First Day, and a Snippet

    I’m posting the official WABWM thread for the day. If you’re playing (or want to join—you can start any time you’re ready) the thread for the day is here. http://howtothinksideways.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=254&t=6304 Also if you’re playing, bookmark this page: Write A Book With Me Board Go to the board every day, and post your own run on…

  • Reader Interview: Just Desserts

    Okay. I have this crazy thing for cookies. My first word, aside from “mommy” and “daddy” was cookie. Seriously. Cadence Drake has developed a craving for this one particular cookie-maker’s cookie because I NEVER get to have as many cookies as I want, so I’m living vicariously through her. Some folks don’t even like desserts.…

  • “Write A Book With Me” is back.

    I’m excited. Happy. Delighted to be ALMOST ready to write fiction full-time again. Here are the details. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • To write WARPAINT, I have to change my schedule

    This comes down to priorities and plans. I want to get both Cadence Drake: Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood and Cadence Drake: Warpaint into print this year. That’s my priority. I’d planned to move BOTH How to Think Sideways and How to Revise Your Novel to public versions this year, then write Warpaint while finishing the…

  • Amazing Apple Turnaround: We’ll Accept HTTS Lesson 6…WITH The Links

    4:41 PM EDT. My husband, kid, and I are out, and my phone rings. It’s San Jose, California calling, and I don’t answer calls from unknown numbers. Don’t ask me why I answered this one. I did, though, and it was a representative from Apple calling. He told me he and others had been over…