Comments

  • Thank you all for the great feedback, and I'm happy if it helps clarify the Amazon conundrum. @Olga, you strike on...etta says, Amazon may have a large market share but they won't ever be the only game...
  • @Carole  I've always taken writing courses during my college career, and I used to cringe at peer critiques....or her vision.  He or she has her preferences and such, so the submission game becomes a bit of a game...
  • Liked your Facebook page. In this day and age where it is rare to get a rejection letter but instead its the "if...e publishing world's future, I see opportunities we can't imagine: 3D e-format, game...
  • Lorelei, thank you for your kind words, and I know exactly what you mean about promotion vs. writing something new...splitting my time between writing and trying to get my head into the promotion game...
  • I love this little nugget: "Think of your writing as sandbox time. Dig. Play. Get dirty. Make friends. Explore the...more important your writing feels, the better it serves you to think of it as a game...
  • Meg Bortin commented on her article Is This a True Story?
    Thanks to all for these comments. I'd like to respond to first to Monica, with whom I agree that the purpose of (m...his 80s, hence from a different generation when maybe that was the rule of the game...
  • Olga, It is frustrating and I'm not sure the progress always feels like it justifies the effort, but I do think th...s why I think it's very important to do it, work at it a bit each day, play the game...
  • Excellent post, Julie. I know this frustration too. My blog is relatively new, only a  few months old, and buildin...d sometimes, I'm tempted to stop. But I still want to write, so I continue this game...
  • I completely agree with you, Martin, that publishing a picture book is a totally different ball game...
  • Very interesting, not only the choice so late in the game to change from a male to a female narrator, but the choice of fiction over nonfiction for the work.  Thank you for this background to what sounds like a very engaging book.