Articles
Over the years I’ve written many how-to articles for writers. You’ll find most of those articles here, along with some updates where appropriate, as some of the articles are quite old and the industry is changing so rapidly now.
Categories.
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The Writing Life | Productivity | Genre Writing | Making Money | Indie Publishing Column | Anchored Authors | Marketing & Promotion | Podcasts |
The Writing Life
11 Things I Wish I’d Known About Full Time Writing When I First Started Writing Novels
11 Good Reasons Authors Need To Stay Healthy And Fit
8 Things I Know About Part-Time Writing Now I’ve Written Full-Time
13 Things I Know About Writing Full Time Now I’m Back to Full Time Again
Adjusting The Anchored Life To Suit Your Circumstances
Do You Have What It Takes To Be An E Author?
Getting Your Partner To Actually Be A Partner
How I Performed Hara-Kiri On My Career
How to Write a Novel While You’re Holding Down A Day Job
Quotes About Reading & Writing
Genre Writing
Erotic Romance Is NOT Erotica!
An End to Euphemisms – Is Erotica Right For You?
Can You Make Money Writing Erotic Romance?
The Difficulties of Writing Really Old Erotic Historical Romances
Historical Cheat Sheet: 5th & 6th Century Britain — Arthurian/The Dark Ages
How To Break Into The Erotic Romance Market – 2013 Update
How To Break Into The Erotic Romance Market In 8 Not-So-Easy Steps
The Perils Of Writing Erotic Romance.
Making Money
Can You Make Money Writing Erotic Romance?
How On-Line Marketing Helps Level the Playing Field
Kindle Select vs KU vs Mass Publication: what’s an author to do? – Kindlepreneur
The Shot Heard Around the Publishing World
Helping You Decide – Go Wide or Go KU? (new!)
Productivity
11 Things I Wish I’d Known About Full Time Writing When I First Started Writing Novels
11 Good Reasons Authors Need To Stay Healthy And Fit
How to Write a Novel While You’re Holding Down A Day Job
On Writing 100 Books – The Prolific Writer Podcast (look for episode #19)
Secrets from Seventy Novels – Self Publishing Formula
Your Average Word Count — Why You Should Track It.
Indie Publishing Column
I wrote a column about indie publishing and indie authors for nearly four years. It appears on Night Owl Review’s monthly magazine. Click here for the latest magazine.
Back issue columns (most recent to earliest):
Dictating Your Novel – A Final Review
Help! Promo Newsletters are Dying!
7 Oversights that Send Readers Away – Part III
7 Oversights that Send Readers Away – Part II
7 Oversights that Send Readers Away – Part I
Multitasking VS Linear Production
Try A Dragon For Speed Dictation Writing
Six Ways to Dodge Amazon’s Wrath (Don’t let your reviews get deleted!)
Take Care Of You – Resolutions
Details, Details – Resolutions
Measure Your Results – Resolutions
Add More Sales Channels – Resolutions
Improve Your Product – Resolutions
Schedule Your Promotions – Resolutions
Refine Your Production Schedule – Resolutions
Refine Your Production Process – Resolutions
Prolificacy, Part II – Resolutions
Prolificacy, Part I – Resolutions
Strengthen Your Sales Pipelines – Resolutions
Review Your Backlist – 2015 Resolutions
Top 7 Promotion Tools For Indie Authors
Top 17 Tools for Indies (Part II)
Top 17 Tools for Indies (Part I)
Staying Visible When Your Production Schedule Tanks
4 Unique Time Management Challenges for the Indie – and how to beat them.
Challenges of a Mature Indie Career
The Minimalist Guide to Reviews
The Care And Feeding of Readers II
The Care And Feeding of Readers
Diversify, Diversify, Diversify!
8 Steps To Your First Indie Book
Pros & Cons of Indie Publishing Part II
Pros & Cons of Indie Publishing Part I
Anchored Authors
I ran a for-authors blog called Anchored Authors for several years. It was designed to help authors “anchored” by a day job write more, publish successfully and live a life, too. The blog ran from 2008-2009, just as Kindles were started to sell and years before the indie author movement really started to roll. These are the best of the Anchored Author posts from that blog.
11 Good Reasons Authors Need To Stay Healthy And Fit
Adjusting The Anchored Life To Suit Your Circumstances
Career Strategy – The Two Step Career
A Cure for Monday Morning Blues
Don’t Reject Small Presses–You Can’t Afford It
Getting Your Partner To Actually Be A Partner
The Hidden Class of Writer – Authors With Day Jobs
The Home-Based Day Job – Pitfalls For An Anchored Author
How I Performed Hara-Kiri On My Career
How Running A Blog Can Help Your Fiction Career
Move Your Day Job To Better Suit Your Writing Career
Publishing Terms, POD, And The Amazon “Thing”
Quitting Your Day Job – Just Where Do You Stand These Days
The Ultimate Goal Of An Anchored Author’s Career
What NOT to do for yourself — Your taxes.
The Writer’s Other Classic Curse and Four Ways to Deal With It
Promotion & Marketing
5 Reasons An Author Newsletter Is Still A Good Idea
Brand Yourself with Your Email Address
Helping You Decide – Go Wide or Go KU? (new!)
Podcasts
I don’t make a habit of appearing on podcasts, but every now and again, I’m invited to record an interview.
How to be Productively Prolific with 100 Books – Author Platform Rocket
Kindle Select vs KU vs Mass Publication: what’s an author to do? – Kindlepreneur
Secrets from Seventy Novels – Self Publishing Formula
On Writing 100 Books – The Prolific Writer Podcast (look for episode #19)