Are we really all so desperate to be noticed that we have to be promoting all the time? Where is the line between being authentic and being obnoxious? Is it possible to promote without being the equivalent of a car salesman?
Sci-Fi Social Media
If you haven’t gathered yet from my recent posts, I attended the Phoenix Comicon this weekend. One of the panel sessions I attended was called “Sci-Fi Social Media”… Here are the bits of wisdom each author shared on all things social media. Hope you find them as useful as I have.
Not Just Writing, but Writing Well
I’m flipping through the notebook from my novel-writing studio this semester led by James Sallis. Just pages and pages of scrawled notes. Some of them are marked with asterisks. I put those by the bits of Sallis Wisdom I especially …
Writing ‘Housekeeping’ Scenes
It’s Monday morning and my house is a mess. I should have spent some time cleaning this weekend, but I didn’t. I chose instead to spend time with family and friends, and to write. As I survey the cleaning tasks …
SCBWI NY: Jacqueline Woodson, Libba Bray
You know when you go somewhere and have a mind-blowing experience and then you get back home and you try to tell others about it and everything you say falls short of what you experienced? Yeah. That’s how I’ve felt …