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  • That you are also a psychotherapist, I now understand the power behind this essay and why it resonated. "Yesterday--a best seller. Today--a nobody," is so appropriate...
  • As a literary publicist Brooke refers to, specializing in historical fiction & nonfiction, Brooke asked me to name communities where historical novelists can netwo...
  • I can understand.  Routinely I struggle with what to allow people to see in my writing - how much of any situation, how I really feel, the other people involved in it.  Ugh.  Sometimes I htink the only way to be published with no consequesces - self-induced and otherwse - is to do so posthumously. 
  • Kelly, I understand where you are coming from. I have struggled with this too. I don't do much with GoodReads because I've heard that a lot of trolls inhabit the space...
  • Are the stages of waiting like the stages of grief?  I'm in the middle of querying agents and I have one agent reading my book.  Or she intends to.  She asked for the...
  • Carole - I wanted to like your post, but couldn't find the like button. Is this what Facebook is doing to us, turning us into Like/Unlike simpletons? ha ha. Anyway, th...
  • The problem I have is not ideas (I've got folders full of ideas and half started things sparked just by reading and living and jotting things down in that oh I need to...
  • Brooke, You misunderstand me. I DO think that indie writers need to adhere to higher e...rial services. So they pay but the book is of a high standard. It's a business model that works for you and for a...
  • Pamela Olson commented on her article Fast Times in Publishing
    Hey all,I just took the plunge and signed all six of my eBooks up for KDP Select (four travel adventure memoirs, one book of poetry, and one retelling of the past 30 y...
  • Many good points here, Linda.  This bashing of memoirists as narcissists has been going on for years, the most frequent perpetrators being the New York Times, which ro...