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Read more about movies, writing books and self-improvement by fantasy/sci-fi author Ron Vitale.
Where did the year go? It’s already the end of 2016 and the world has gone through some difficult changes and I feel battered myself. Sales for the third quarter report from Author Earnings showed significant marketing share shrinking for indie ebooks. Was that due to the election in the US? Or top indie authors moving out of the indie publishing category, falling under Amazon’s press? Or is the downtrend a sign of more to come?
When I started writing my first Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries book back in 2009, I did not know much about the process of writing. I kept my process as simplistic as I could by using files on my local computer, Microsoft Word and then backed up all my files using Carbonite. I worked full-time and in the early morning hours (and eventually the few precious hours after my kids were asleep), I’d write, re-write, edit and eventually teach myself how to convert my books into .mobi and .epub format.
This week I'm happy to have Ellen Seltz as a guest on the blog. She's come up with a witty and heartfelt article about imposter syndrome that I can definitely relate. Enjoy!
My kids love the movie Kung Fu Panda. They love it so hard, they twitch like dreaming puppies in the fight scenes, subconsciously acting it out. We watch that movie at least once a month, to the point that I recently confessed on Twitter....
Hi, I’m Karen. For almost 40 years, I’ve been an imaginary writer.
Meaning, I spend lots of time imagining how great it will be when I finally write all the amazing stories that are locked somewhere inside of me. But not really doing that much, y’know... actual writing. Because words are hard. And it’s much more fun contemplating which studio I’ll license my film rights to, than writing anything film-worthy.
I have 6 published novels and one short story collection, along with two first drafts sitting at home and am nearly halfway through writing the first draft of a new novel that my wife and I are working on. So, where do all these ideas come from? What’s my creative process and how does an idea become a published book?
This week I'm happy to have Jared Talavera as a guest on the blog. He's written a great post on dealing with failure and I hope it's helpful to you. Enjoy!
Failure is something we have all experienced at more than one point in our lives yet it is something that most people would have difficulty knowing how to deal with.
