Wild, Wicked & Wacky

In looking through some old posts, I realized I hadn't talked much about the publishing industry lately. The why is even more astounding...

The lovely Phoenix Sullivan posted an interesting Twitter thread yesterday. She talks about her efforts to secure a trad deal to expand her...

On a Monday two years ago, a tip popped up on Alter Ego's Facebook feed. A handful of her friends were telling their friends that the fi...

It's been a little over five years since I jumped into the indie pool. I don't regret a minute of it. I've made some mistakes, a...

Duty Calls by xkcd, licensed under a Creative  Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. The generic cartoon by xkcd definitely fi...

Last night I was reading the latest book in a series of a new writer I've fallen in love with. Well, she's new to me. I stumbled acr...

My friend Angie, who comments here a bit, sold three short stories last week to three different editors. I'm ecstatic for her. This is h...

"You just don't understand." I've been hearing that phrase a lot over the last few years. I can't possibly understan...

[Edit to add: I wrote this blog post during lunch yesterday. When I checked in after painting Genius Kid's old room last night, I thou...

I haven't written in nearly a month so I swear it feels like I'm going through withdrawal. The final push of getting the house ready...

I was going to avoid this topic. I really was. But I'm reading and hearing too much not to comment. First of all, RT stands for Romant...

In all the hubbaloo over The Passive Voice, Steven Zacharius of Kensington, Barry Eisler, Robert Gottlieb of Trident Media Group and the inf...

For the record, I have nothing against traditional publishing. My regular readers know that I advocate READING AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR FUCKIN...

The ladies of Wise Ink, Dara Beevas and Amy Quale, report their findings at Writer's Digest conference . It's amazing to me the abou...

Well, I thought the bullshit about indie v. trad publishing had died down, but it's back in full-force. At the beginning of the month,...

There's been a lot of panic in the publishing world over the last few days thanks to Bowker's report that self-published authors now...

Slut shaming (def.) - "the act of making a woman feel guilty or inferior for engaging in certain sexual behaviors that deviate fro...

After my news yesterday about "Justice" being selected for Sword and Sorceress XXVIII , I spoke on the phone with Friend #1 who is...

What a week! The anxiety levels are rising again as the latest numbers come out, and e-books have taken over a significant chunk of the mark...

I'm getting really tired of the anti-indie sentiment floating around the internet. It's almost as bad as the anti-Amazon crap, but t...