Indie Author

Slumdog Millionaire, Silence of the Lambs, Brokeback Mountain and most recently, Everything Everywhere All at Once; what do they have in common? They are on the list of highest-grossing indie movies of all time. You might be very, very surprised to see some of the other titles on that list…

Maybe not all of us authors have wondered that. No. But I’m sure a good many of us, especially self-made self-published authors who didn’t have any experience with the literary world before uploading their first manuscript, have probably wondered if they should be reposting or cross-posting blogs and articles from…

I must have sounded like I was whining a little. We were talking in our zoom Friday Author Lunch about commercial publishers versus indie authors and I must have sounded a bit like a querulous teenager. One of the older men (I’m sixty-one, so when I say older, I mean…

(Listen with AI Audio) A Romantic Affair Can you breathe it? The dust flitting on the breeze from the cover being lifted. The ink saturating a yellowing parchment. The glue holds a faint trace of long dried chemicals. Can you feel it? The weight of the paper stacked in order. …

I’ve done a few interviews — radio programs, podcasts, newspaper interviews — over the past fifteen years. I love talking about books and my passion for the written word with anyone who is interested. Invariably, at some point, the same question arises… Why do you do all the stuff… virtual…

Well, this is something I’ve had to work up to talking about. There is so much conflicting information out there about self-publishing that it’s not even funny. First of all, you got one person who says, gee, self-published authors make all sorts of money. All you have to do…

Creative Flow Creative flow, or simply put, the ability to get into a writing flow which the story, plot, characters, subplots, drama, action and everything else fall seemingly into place. Some writers take a bit of time to engage their writing flow. People call it different things. It’s a period…

*sigh* Yeah, I know, I know … I ignored a whole shitload of articles just to home in on a few of interest to me and I hope to you, as well. Can you be charged for murder if there’s no body? Brian Walshe Googled it, police say. …