It’s true. I took a class at the University of Pittsburgh once taught by (now) deputy editor for the New York Times Magazine, Joel Lovell. You’re probably thinking, “Come on! You expect me to believe that? Why didn’t you use ...
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(Feature photo by apolonn) Reading a literary short story is often like reading a mystery. The only difference is that in every mystery, all the answers are revealed at the end, while in literary fiction, the reader is often left ...
Read More »Which Book Marketing Effort is Most Effective?
(The feature image at the top of this post belongs to Disturbet) Everybody knows that word of mouth is the MOST effective method of selling and promoting your book. But that puts you (the author) in the passanger seat, not the ...
Read More »How to get more mouse clicks from Twitter
(Feature image by JoseAlvesSilva) This article was written mostly to help authors get more clicks (therefore sell more books) using their twitter accounts, but I think any business owner or product promoter can learn from this. If you’re reading this, ...
Read More »Mixing oil with water: Christian Fiction & Contemporary Literature
(Feature image provided by Knold) Can oil and water mix? Can they become the same substance? Or, at the very least, can they be packaged into a single product? Several years ago, when I was thinking of proposing to my ...
Read More »Amidst Traffic – Official Book Trailer
Here it is finally! The official video book trailer for “Amidst Traffic.” A huge shout out and THANK YOU goes out to fellow author and novelist, Andrew Seaward, who produced this really awesome and professional trailer. I’m sure I tested ...
Read More »Why I decided to self-publish (entering the dark hallway alone)
(Photo credit by thundersaber) It’s been ten years since I graduated high school. In those ten years, I got married (been married 5+ years now), deployed to Iraq (won the Army Journalist of the Year award), bought a house, ...
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