“I shelved it for about a year. I eventually realised that the reason the short story didn’t work was because it was the last act of a novel, and needed the rest of the story for it to make any emotional sense. And so I wrote the novel and reunited the short story with its history.”
– Tom North 30 August 2011 Continue reading
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“Don’t kid yourself about this being easy; if anything, you’ll need to hold yourself to higher standards than others have held you to previously in your writing life. There’s a very real and time-consuming business aspect to being indie and it’s not a money-machine.”
– Craig Hansen 20 August 2011 Continue reading
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“I tried outlining an SF Thriller once and found that once it was extensively outlined I was no longer interested in writing it. Half the fun of writing to me is finding out exactly how the characters are going to get out of the situations they find themselves in.”
– Mike Lewis 30 July 2011 Continue reading
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“Knowing your genre is the key thing when seeking reviews. You need to know who your target audience is and where they look for reviews, and target those sites. When looking at potential review sites look at how often they post, where they post, their layout, the genre(s) they review and which books they give what ratings to. This can provide you with a good indication of whether a review from that site will be of use to you in promoting your work.”
Tome Keeper 26 July 2011 Continue reading
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“My approach is that of discovery. I want to write what I want to read. So I sully forth trying to tell myself a story—one that I really want to hear. I always fall short, but really, that’s what propels me.”
Thea Atkinson 3 July 2011 Continue reading
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“… the philosophy of Sift: we started to help readers, not writers. Which means we’re not going to pull punches if we don’t like a book. But it also means that the readers can really take our reviews at face value when we say we love a book.”
Sarah ~ Sift Reviews 25 June 2011 Continue reading
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“When blogging, I intentionally avoid using any sort of rating system. I don’t see a lot of value in an arbitrary number – I think the details are what matter, and are what will sway my decision to read (or not to read).”
Sally Saphire 19 June 2011 Continue reading
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“I submitted Not What She Seems, my first book, to eight agents before self-publishing it. When Not What She Seems hit the New York Times best selling ebook list, I had quite a few agents email me. I am now signed with Rachel Vogel from Moveable Type Literary Group. She’s wonderful, and she’s currently shopping The Overtaking as well as Not What She Seems to editors.”
– Victorine E. Lieske 11 June 2011 Continue reading
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“I’m a big fan of old-school sci-fi, and how they would riff on a future technological advancement and show all the terrible and amazing consequences it could have while still saying something about today’s world.”
~ David Gaughran 2 June 2011 Continue reading
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“I’m a binge writer. When I go on a binge, I write 12 or 14 hours a day. Nothing else happens. I snap at my family. I order a lot of pizza. I’ve described the feeling as “I wait for the first reel of the movie in my mind to start and then I type like mad trying to keep up with it as it plays.” When the closing credits roll, I stop.”
– Nathan Lowell 22 May 2011 Continue reading
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