Dog knows, I’m not the world’s greatest with self-marketing. Like any self-disrespecting creative, it makes me deeply uneasy to toot my own horn, preferring other people to do it for me, while I stay in my workspace and create. But being uneasy with the act does not mean I am not savvy about the means. […]
How NOT to sell yourself. Read More »
from mb_galleycat at Most Authors Make Less Than $1,000 a Year: DBW “The majority of authors make less than $1,000 a year, according to a new report from Digital Book World. Almost 80% of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors earn less than $1,000 a year, according to the report. A little more than 40
In which practical meerkat has a few words about money, writing, and freelancing Read More »
“How do I do this? How do YOU do this? How does it get done, this book-writing, storytelling thing? I keep starting and stopping, getting distracted, getting bored, getting broken…. what’s the secret?” The following paragraph has long resided in the sidebar of my Livejournal blog. Some days (weeks, months, years) it’s useful to shake
A Reminder (for you, and for them, and for me) Read More »
So while I’m head-down in manuscript and revisions and whatnot, I also appear around the Internet… You can hear me on this week’s Functional Nerds podcast, being very nerdy and somewhat functional…. (with apologies for the occasional muffled sound… my Skype dropped out once or twice). AND! I’m at the Book View Cafe blog as
Onward and onward on the revisions for HEART OF BRIAR. As I said on the Other Social Medias (OSMs), writing a novel is like building a mountain out of pebbles. Revising is like trying to rearrange the pebbles without causing a landslide. So far so good – the major changes are all making sense, and
It’s Wednesday. All day. I think more caffeine is in order, don’t you? Read More »
I’m reminded I’ve not not shilled “Practical Meerkats’ 52 Bits of Useful Info” recently! Oh dear. Bad writer. Shill coming in 3…2… For the writer in your life (or your own sanity), Practical Meerkat has the Info! 52 Bits of it, in fact. Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers,
Shill…shill a song! Er, no, wait…. Read More »
Lunacon was a lovely time – slightly weird, since I was day-tripping it, but I came out the other side feeling far more rested than usual, so I’ll call the experiment a success (when you live half an hour drive from the hotel, why not sleep in your own bed at night?). There were the
[Practical Meerkat] On Craft: The Boss and the Through-Line Read More »
All the (alleged) wit and (dubious) wisdom of Practical Meerkat, updated, revised, copyedited and ready for your e-reader! January 31st (or thereabouts). Via BookView Press (and yes, you will be able to download it from all the Usual Suspects.)
The next thing to come…. Read More »
Linky Things: It’s Friday, so you know what that means: Self-publish? Big Six? Something Else? Practical Meerkat has her say, in week 45. My Kickstarter project, a “prequel” novella set in the universe of The Vineart War, hit 51% funded in the first week!  I’ve started writing – I can’t help myself – so I
Week’s End Update (with useful links!) Read More »
And so, the Vineart War trilogy has been finished – on my part. It now exists in whole for readers to discover, as I hope they will continue to do for many years to come. If you read it and like it, pass the word along. Books only survive through word-of-reader-mouth (and online review). As