A Writer’s Blog

  • 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. Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • Watering the Backyard or Exercise – as if I have a choice

    From the street to the top of the backyard is equal to climbing a seven-and-a-half-story building that does not have an elevator or escalator. Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: What happened in that theater outside Denver, Colorado on July 25, 2012 or, for example, the terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building in Downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, were acts of terrorism and/or combat no different from what happened on 9/11 or… Read more

  • Another Sky-is-Falling Guru

    Do pessimists get more attention in the traditional media and on the Internet than optimists? Read more