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This Writing Life 8: Editing and Editors or Just Because It’s Done Doesn’t Mean It’s Done
(Note from Erik: My blog posts have been too long. Since I’m talking about editing this week, it seems like a good time to start shortening them) Last week I talked about writers as Explorers or Engineers. I said that no matter which a writer was, when that writer...
Marketing True Magics 7: Twittering To The Masses, My Journey So Far
The delay on True Magics, final book in my Magics Trilogy, has given me extra time to build my social media presence and following, and take my time in planning out the rest of my marketing campaign. So far, my main focus has been on Twitter. (Buy Small Magics...
This Writing Life 7: Outliners vs. Pantsers or The Many Ways to Write Stuff
There is big debate over which way is the best way to write a novel. This debate divides the writing community into two main camps: “Outliners” and “Seat of the Pantsers.” Outliners outline their books before they write them and Seat of the Pantsers don’t. And I’m...
Marketing True Magics 6: Reaching Your Target Audience (without being creepy)
Last week we defined Target Audiences. That was the easy part. In case you forget: A writer’s target audience is the group of people most likely to buy that writer’s books. This week we’re talking about the hard part: reachin your target audience. Because unlike...
This Writing Life 6: The One Rule to Writing
There is a plague of doubt that affects all writers. Some are affected once in a while. Others are affected on a daily basis. You sit down at your computer and you stare at the blank screen and as you begin to type you wonder: “Am I doing this right?” Well have NO...
Marketing True Magics 5: Target Audiences or Who Are My Readers?
The single hardest thing in any business is getting people to know you exist. And in this business, it can be very difficult indeed. There were (on a researched guess because stats are hard to find) approximately 2,000,000 books published last year...
This Writing Life 4: Prioritizing and Protecting Your Time
It used to be easy to avoid distractions. Take the phone off the hook, put up a “do not disturb sign”, turn off the TV and don’t answer the door. Problem solved. Yeah, I’m old. These days, we live in a state of constant distraction, thanks to the Internet and all it...
Marketing True Magics 4: Cutting Through the Clutter or: Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick Two.
I spent 15 years as an actor before my daughter was born. Chances are you’ve never heard of me. Most actors aren’t stars. But that’s all right. I’m not bitter at all. I don’t still pine for it like a Norwegian Blue pining for the Fjords. …But enough of that. I spent...
This Writing Life 4: Scheduling or, Where Is My COFFEE???
The Schedule: 6 a.m. wake up 6:15 a.m. workout & light stretching 7 a.m. Make girlfriend’s lunch for work,, shave shower, eat breakfast 7:30 a.m. Check email, Facebook, twitter, webcomics and news 7:45 a.m. Daughter comes over from Mom’s place 8:00 a.m. Workout...
“True Magics” Release Date!!!
Hi everyone! We have finally nailed down our release date for True Magics. We had hoped to have it ready for fall 2014, but after consulting with my editor and publisher at Dragon Moon Press, we have all agreed to push it back to ensure the book is at the level of...