Dearest Author, I've been thinking about worth lately. What's your story worth? At a recent writers conference I taught a workshop on how I saw publishing changing. Modern publishing, the only time in history when we've had separate "markets" for books, has begun to fracture and redistribute. I've shared several times about how The Shack has shifted things. It isn't
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What is “success” as an author? This question has more answers than Carter has pills. (My grandpa liked to say this, which always made me feel badly for whoever Carter was. Who is Carter and why does he have so many pills?) Ah, this is great. I'm munching some popcorn Charlotte, my 5 year old, just brought me from her
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Thanks for coming back. Last time I left off asking if we should be better introvert-extrovert authors, balanced between the extremes. I thought some more over the weekend about classic books that survive as good reads. I still think most seem to be by introverted authors. Have times changed? I think so. There are probably some exceptional extroverted "classic authors,"
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You probably saw the headline and thought I was talking about two different types of authors, right? Ah, but this is an entirely new and different kind of post. This is how to draw on your hidden abilities as an extrovert and an introvert. Obviously, it's becoming ever more important for a good writer to use both. Story is king
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This morning I had breakfast with an agent friend and when I got back, I realized I genuinely enjoyed Christian publishing, strange as that may sound. But I hadn’t had nearly enough coffee yet so I made my way over to the ol’ Bunn-o-matic… ———————————– Oh boy. Here we go. Another chance to second-guess your happiness and remember everything that’s
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