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An Interview With Kevin J. Anderson
An Interview with Kevin J. Anderson Joanna Penn, who is one of the nicest people I have met and one of the smarter people about publishing (and who happens to be here on the coast at the moment) did a wonderful interview with my friend, Kevin J. Anderson. She gets Kevin talking about his writing, his thinking about the new world, and his process of how he writes. A great interview, as is normal with Joanna. They also talk about the bundle I am in below. Joanna has a book in the bundle, as does Kevin. But mostly they talk about writing in general and the new world of publishing.…
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Trust the Reader
Trust the Reader I have a hunch that the phrase “trust the reader” is going to come out of my mouth a lot this week. Just guessing. What exactly does that mean in general? Basically, it means to let the readers decide if something you wrote works or not. How do they decide? They spend money on it. If it doesn’t work, they won’t buy it. Trust the reader. Sounds so simple, but for most writers, almost impossible, if not flat impossible. Writers have this ego thing that makes them think they are the best judges of their own work. And, of course, no story is ever perfect, so writers…
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Workshop type of day
Workshop type of day Short post tonight. Been working on different things with workshops all day. Kind of surprised that so very few are signed up yet for the November online workshops. Too many things going on in the world I suppose. My focus has been taken for a short time for a personal reason, but it is interesting how I am noticing almost across the board that other writers’ focuses are off as well. In one week I will be back at full speed on the writing, but I have no explanation for why it seems across the board (workshops are only a minor sign) that this October is…
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Fun Day
Fun Day Worked on first the master class, then recorded another week of the POV workshop, then home to cook dinner, take a nap, and work more on the master class stuff. Great fun. This workshop is going to be a real challenge and the POV workshop is already a real challenge to try to present such a vast area of information and techniques and have it make sense. So I am challenged and when I am challenged, I have fun. The Point of View workshop is also offered in November, but trust me, you don’t want to even try it without the depth workshop first. — This is a…
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After 6 a.m.
AFTER 6 A.M. And the lights are flickering from the wind. So I am cheating tonight… just leaving up the bundle information and posting this before the power goes out. — This is a bundle you don’t want to miss. And in the process of reading all the wonderful novels in the bundle, I hope you enjoy both the wonderful stories in Fiction River: Pulse Pounders and my very strange but fun golf thriller, An Easy Shot. http://storybundle.com/thriller ——————— November Online Workshops Click the workshop tab above for description and sign-up or go to www.wmgpublishingworkshops.com. Questions about any of the workshops, feel free to write me. Almost no one is signed up…
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New Bundle Out
New Bundle Out Many of you know I have written some thrillers over the years. The main one I can claim is Dead Money. A poker-based thriller. It sort of was the anchor to my mystery series called The Cold Poker Gang series. However, under a pen name a while back in time I wrote a thriller set on and around a golf tournament. Yup, not kidding. (Remember, I used to be a PGA golf professional.) And the original book had sex in it, sort of graphic sex, actually, because that was the basis and slant of the publisher I wrote it for. So it was a sex golf thriller.…
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A Celebration
A Celebration I want to have the 36th issue out of Smith’s Monthly this month. (Go ahead, try to wrap your brain around that. A novel, four or five short stories, serial novel, all mine, every month for 36 months. Yeah, go ahead, imagine doing that. (grin)) Why this month? Because this is the 36th month since the first Smith’s Monthly came out. So since the writing is slow at the moment due to massive amounts of other things which will clear shortly, I decided to put my entire first published novel, Laying the Music to Rest, in the 36th issue. Thought that would be cool. I had been serializing the…
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New Stuff
New Stuff As I said yesterday, I drove to Salt Lake and spent a few fun days at a great romance writers conference there. Well run, lots of great writers. It was an honor to be invited. I ended up teaching two classes, one about indie and one about business. Of course, both topics are so large an hour didn’t begin to start to cover either topic. But tried to cover some basics and then opened it up for questions. Got some great questions. What I noticed the most and that was the most fun for me was being around so many writers hungry to learn. That hunger is infectious.…
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Just Got Back
Just Got Back I drove to Salt Lake and spent a few fun days at a great romance writers conference there. Well run, lots of great writers. I’ll talk more later about it when I wake up. Back to a regular post and some articles tomorrow. Night. ———————————— Totals For Year 4, Month 3, Day 9 Writing in Public blog streak… Day 1,116
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Refocus on Running Day 4
Refocus on Running Day 4 Hit the five miles for a fourth day. I have spent the last three days down in the Salt Lake area with the state chapter of the Romance Writers of America. A fantastic group, a great conference, and I was honored to be part of it, teach a couple of classes, and give a very short speech. Mostly I got to learn from all the wonderful and dedicated and driven writers there. Great time. I really love to hang around with writers who want to learn. So tomorrow I’ll go back to a more normal blog here about writing and other things since I will be home.…