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  • Books – Old Official New

    Some days are simply writers days. The title of the post may be overly concise, but including everything from today would be very wordy.How about, ‘An Old Book An Official Book The Next Book‘?Skip the suspense. Today, I got another new copy of my book about tea tales, Kettle Pot Cup; and got an official…

  • A Writers Vacation

    Pause Beethoven, or at least someone playing his music. It is time to write, and for this post, to write about writing. As I mentioned in a recent post (Defiance) on my oldest blog, “I expected to take a few days to write for my self, writing about things that are so personal that I…

  • 18,000 Words

    More than 18,000 words into my next book, and where do I go next? I feel as if I’ve pushed myself out from shore, the city shrinking as my boat heads out into the choppy waters of writing, and I’m wondering whether to put up sail, get out the oars, float with the currents, fire…

  • Amazon Author Page And Central

    (written while tired. my apology, but intuition suggested I publish it soonest.) I pass this along because it is cheap and relatively easy. Amazon has two websites that I use: Amazon Author page and Amazon Author Central. Note: I use them. They are useful, but not very useful. But they are free and informative. And…

  • First Draft Voice

    Every book has a voice, at least from my perspective. I’m working on the sequel to Dream. Invest. Live. (From Middle Class to Millionaire to (Mostly Muddling By, which is becoming A Rollercoaster Ride Through America’s Wealth Classes because it is sorta shorter.) But something didn’t feel right. Now, it feels better because I found…

  • Social Media Ah And Ugh

    There are so many that I can’t keep up. Social media: free (usually), powerful (but not reliably), simple (at least that’s what the brochure claims), essential (mostly yes, but not entirely.) I should probably start a FAQ list. One of the top three would be “How do you market your work?” Step 1: I congratulate…

  • Popular Posts 2024

    Someone else had the idea for this blog. Thanks for the inspiration. They reasoned that I did so much writing that my writing deserved its own blog. I didn’t doubt that I’d find something to write about writing. I write. It works that way. Looking at the top ten posts from 2024 points out that…

  • Last Minute Ebooks

    It is Christmas Eve. What’s left to do for an author? Ah, yes. Remind people that ebooks have found a niche in the harried shopping season. This is simple. This will be easy. Let’s see if I ramble on as usual. Cultural note: Shopping doesn’t only happen for Christmas. Christmas is not for everyone. If…

  • First Review Whew – Fire Race

    “Finish the next one. I want to see what happens.” OK. That summarizes it. I called a friend (definitely not an unbiased source, but a better writer than me) just to ask how they were doing after our windstorm. Fine; now, about the book… Write a book. Become an author. Then, wait for the second…

  • Library Of Congress – Fire Race

    A milestone. A celebration. I think I did it right, but with bureaucracies, I have doubts. But. I have mailed a paperback copy of Fire Race to the U.S. Library of Congress. I hope I did it right. I’ve submitted several books during the previous 22 years, so I should be practiced, but a lot…