Tag Archive | sunday
Sunday Tweet: Branding 101
Tweet of the Day: Branding 101: Online Brand vs. Author’s Brand ——- Branding, you heard the term before and it is the subject of today’s tweet. Also known as a writer’s Platform or Presence. It’s the reason why a) I run two serials every week (Wizards’ World War on Wednesdays and Severus the Rogue on […]
Sunday Tweet: How to Avoid the Trap of Making Your Characters Unlikable
Tweet of the Day: How to Avoid the Trap of Making Your Characters Unlikable ——– The subject of this Sunday’s tweet (see link above) is characters, specifically how to avoid making your characters unlikable. You want your readers to connect with your story and that means connecting with your characters. Sure, most people don’t like […]
Sunday Tweet: Dumbest and Smartest
Tweet of the Day: Dumbest and Smartest (Things you done on your way to publication) ——– A few things first: Thank you to all you (silent but) loyal readers you seem to pop up when I need you the most with cheerful comments and helpful insight. A change in serial publication: I will no longer […]
Sunday Tweet: Fangs for the Memories
Tweet of the Day: Fangs for the Memories ——– I know, an incredibly lame pun. But sometimes you just have to roll with it, as did Diane Dooley in her post about the fading vampire (with a short story bonus!) Sure you can find vamps everywhere, but that’s the problem. They went from dark creatures […]
Sunday Tweets: How to write a Query Letter
Tweet of the Day: How to write a Query Letter ——- The dreaded query letter. Unless you already jumped into the self publishing bandwagon, you are still doing the publishing rounds, and that means: Write Book Revise Book Re-write Book Write Query Letter Get Agent Revise Manuscript (again) Offer Manuscript to Publishers (through agent) Sell […]
Sunday Tweets: Science Fiction as a Genre
Tweet of the Day: Why Science Fiction May Not Be A Genre ——– I found the post linked to above as a well executed and fascinating read on science fiction in general. The thrust of the post revolved around science fiction as a genre. It incorporates over one-hundred and fifty years of works, in book, […]
Sunday Tweet: The Dark Side of Self-Publishing
Tweet of the Day: The Dark Side of the New Age of Self-Publishing ——- A sucker is born every minute, or at least the chance to part a fool from his money. In the writing world, self-publishing is root of many chances. Over at storyfix.com, a blogger relates how he was approached by Lifetime (yes […]
Sunday Tweet: A Famous Little Tune
Tweet of the Day: Happy Birthday to the most Famous Unknown Songstress ——– Another tweet from our blog-friend (and dare I say, bashful fan?) of this blog. Naked praised mixed with shameless (redundant I know) self-promotion! But still worth reading. Why? Because Tasha, a.k.a. Gyspyscarlet summons interesting tidbits from our collective past that you never […]
