Tag: Writing

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    #1: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller Short Story

    SECOND SHOT The Patriot Oath’s Chapter 3 from Rachel’s POVThis is a Reader Magnet  Suki entered the dining room, looking excited for the first time since the assault. “He’s here!” she said, her voice animated. The chatter around the table stopped. Rachel thought, Who got her excited like that? The only empty chairs at the […]

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    My Battle between Building an Author’s Email List or finishing Fiddling with Death

    Since my first novel, My Splendid Concubine, came out in December 2007, I’ve done almost everything legal to promote my books. Still, there’s one promotion method I haven’t tried, creating an author’s email list that includes free reader magnets. “An author’s email list is a collection of email addresses from readers who have opted-in to […]

  • 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

    The Need to Edit – (Viewed as Single Page)

    Most authors may have editing skills similar to Thomas Wolfe, who wrote longhand without the use of punctuation in addition to other mistakes that his editor, Max Perkins, fixed as he edited Wolfe’s work.