I felt a sense of being buried alive when I recently visited Wet Ink’s website and saw this note: Wet ink is closing down It is with great regret we have to announce that Wet Ink is closing down after seven ...
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Feed SubscriptionA character interview: Figuring out what your characters want
When I was studying at Fiction writing at Pitt, I had a professor, Jeff Martin, who had us do a really clever exercise. He gave us the assignment to interview one of our characters. He said that sometimes to figure ...
Read More »The Northside Chronicle featured Amidst Traffic
The Northside Chronicle recently did a feature article on “Amidst Traffic.” It was a pleasure doing the interview with the author, Megan Trimble, and it’s cool to see how much information she was able to pack into the feature story. ...
Read More »Kirkus Reviews: Is it worth the money?
The moment your book hits the market, you have to switch gears from writer to book promoter. From artist to business man. As a business man, you’ll have to spend money to market and promote your book, which is ...
Read More »How to respond to a negative book review
A few days ago, “Amidst Traffic” received its first negative, one-star review on Amazon.com The review pretty much went like this…
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My name is Michel Sauret. I’m an award-winning Army journalist and independent author. On this blog I will be sharing my experiences about writing, self-publishing and marketing my work as a writer. It’s an uphill battle. Hopefully we can all ...
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