Thoughts from Rob
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Self-Publishing Services on Penguin Group (USA)’s Book Country
Book Country, the Penguin Group USA‘s online community dedicated to genre fiction, introduced a suite of self-publishing tools today. While there are dozens of entities offering authors self-publishing options, I believe this is the very first time any unit of The Big Six traditional publishing houses (Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins,…
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Taking Feedback (Gracefully)
I didn’t do a very good job taking feedback from my “alpha” beta reader* on the first draft of my first novel, An Irish Miracle. One could say my initial responses were a bit defensive, as most of them started with “Well, I did that because . . .” It…
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Set the Mood and “Write First”
Many athletes have pre-game rituals so why can’t authors have pre-writing session rituals, too? I certainly do. My first ritual (technically, it’s third if you count the first as coffee and the second as settling my four-legged writing companions into their beds . . . more on them in a…