Comments

  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
  • I read your first book "Body of Work" and recommend it. I learned yesterday that your second book has been published and ordered it; I'm looking forward to reading it....
  • I was cruising along toward my various goals when I got sick. I don't get sick, but I did get sick. For more than a week, the finest doctors in the world could not fig...
  • A professional man might just say:          JUST DO IT! The professionals,  who are well-known,  say they MUST write each day.  One says he must write five pages.  Ano...
  • Betty, what a great post! As you say, it is very tricky picking a good title. Really important too since nobody likes being fooled by anything misleading. Personally,...
  • Good advice! I am currently at the end of the long process of writing my memoir and I am grateful and lucky to have a fantastic editor. She is helping me to focus the...
  • Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death at a Storm-Ravaged Hospital One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2013, by a Pulitzer Prize winner (and dear fr...
  • Yes, and for too long. I do write every day - at Facebook, at my blog, and too often in my checkbook. I used to write in a spiral journal, with a pen. I used to write...
  • Hi Kamy, I will be happy to give you my two cents on the matter.  As a successful self-published author, publishing consultant and book publicist...I am a HUGE fan of...
  • Well, in the case of my writing group Write On Mamas, we controlled each stage of our book Mamas Write, but it was anything but "self" publishing. We hired bona fide professionals at every step of the way. To call it "self-publishing" gives us more credit than we deserve!