• On Writing,  publishing

    The New World of Publishing: A Return to the Past

    A Look Back at January 11, 2011 That’s right, I wrote the following post on January 11, 2011, talking some about the coming war between writers and the problems with the future of agents. I was looking back at some old posts to clean them out and stumbled on this and was stunned. I remember warning people of the coming war between writers and getting laughed at. Not sure anyone is laughing anymore, sadly. Take a look back at 2011.  Anything I put in (Bold Italics is a comment I have added tonight.) ———— Okay, time to talk about agents and their future in this changing world. Mary Kole, who…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Writing in Public

    Year End Summary of Writing in Public: Year One

    Year End Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. Not even sure where to begin this summary to be honest. I’ve post all the different categories I count and monthly and yearly totals below, but those numbers only tell a part of the story. But let me start with the numbers first and go from there. I did (not counting comments on web sites) 1,281,675 original words in the last twelve months. 745,175 words of that was original fiction. 51,700 words of that was nonfiction.  (So just under 800,000 words of fiction and nonfiction combined. More than I thought, actually.) That ended up being twelve novels and over thirty short stories…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Writing in Public

    Writing in Public: Summary of Month 12

    Month #12 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. July 2014 I will do a year-end summary after this. So check that out. This post is only about July. Once again, as with last month, this was a pretty solid month, all things considered. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #10 is done and will be shipping to subscribers as soon as the fine folks at WMG Publishing get back next week. And #11 will be back from the proofreader this week as well and will be out by the end of August. I finished two novels this month, including Avalanche Creek, the 12th novel of the year. So that felt great. As I…