Red Room Where the Writers Are

We are at the end of week #1 for Write Nonfiction in November. Is your nonfiction project unfolding easily and effortlessly? Are you  learning new and useful information by reading this blog?

Welcome to the first day of Write Nonfiction in November!

Why would an author ever give away a book?  A whole book, that took months, maybe years, to write?  It's a big question today, as publishers and authors both struggle to find readers in an online

I failed to get a standard publisher interested in my first novel, THE ESTRANGEMENT OF THE RAIN GOD, which deals with emotional abandonment.

"We keep hearing this phrase, 'What's the platform?' . . . Well, what it is is this: What does the author bring to the table? Talent is not enough. The number of slots open to fiction on a publisher's list is being reduced all the time." -- Literary agent Nat Sobel, quoted in Poets and Writers Magazine