Note to Reader: I’ve written a post at the Visionary Fiction Alliance titled Is Dean Koontz a Visionary Fiction Writer? In it, I question if Dean Koontz is an author of horror or visionary fiction. At the Visionary Fiction Alliance we share a list of books, film, and television that we consider visionary fiction, which includes: Examples […]
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Five Top Trends Shaping The Future of Publishing
I recently attended a “sit-up-and-take-notice” workshop about how to produce, distribute and sell your work in the evolving e-world given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords. His opener jolted my writer self like a sip of vanilla latte on a cold, groggy morning. “There’s never been a better time to be an author.” Okaaaay, I thought, as though he had just told […]
Mark Coker/Negative Virality/This Book Sucks!
I attended an E-book publishing workshop given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords. In it, he spoke of Negative Virality. According to the online Oxford Dictionary, virality means the tendency of an image, video, or piece of information to be circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another; the quality or […]
What is Freedom?
In the course of writing my four novels, I asked myself repeatedly, “What is freedom?” Eventually I came to realize that there are as many answers to that question as there are human circumstances in this world.
Reiki, Fact or Fiction
What is reiki anyway? Some holistic mumbo-jumbo advanced by charlatans with promises of relief from pain and suffering, where modern medicine and pharmaceuticals have failed – a claim too sweet for the sick and desperate to ignore?
Niche-Specific Audience/My Ideal Reader
I’ve heard that writers need to find a niche and then directly address a niche-specific audience. But in order to do so, the writer must first figure out who that audience is. Each of us, of course, hopes our work will enjoy universal appeal, when more than likely it will attract one segment of the […]
