Category: about books

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The NEED to Edit – Part 5/6

    As Amanda Hocking once said, editing is exhausting.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The NEED to Edit – Part 4/6

    There are 62 million avid readers in the United States. Most authors must write for this audience.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The NEED to Edit – Part 3/6

    The other choice is to edit your own work with some help from friends as I did.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The NEED to Edit – Part 2/6

    If the avid reader is distracted by too many mistakes, do not expect this audience to be forgiving.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The NEED to Edit – Part 1/6

    Writing, revising and editing are part and parcel of an author’s work, especially if she doesn’t have a contract with a traditional publisher.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Ten-Thousand Dreams

    By the end of 2008 (my first year as an indie author), My Splendid Concubine had sold 221 copies so I FAILED to reach my first goal by 279 books that no one bought.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Secrets to Getting More Book Reviews—even if your book is already out

    Bloggers get hundreds of books mailed to them by publishers on a monthly basis, while book review departments in newspapers have either shrunk or been removed entirely.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 6/6

    While Hart worked in Ningpo, as you may see, the concern of the Chinese and Westerners had little to do with the Taiping Rebellion and more with pirates and crime.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 5/6

    Tilly, in claim six, ever the historian as she says in her Readers Cafe review of The Concubine Saga, points out that the Santai Dynasty mentioned in chapter four was not the oldest known dynasty when in fact the oldest was the Xia. She is correct but wrong at the same time.  The Xia (or “Hsia” as Lin Yutang (1895…

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 4/6

    In Tilly’s opinion, castrations only took place after a man was hired to work in the Forbidden City … She was wrong!