I’ve already commented about this Huffington Post article on my Facebook page, but I’ll reiterate here: Uh . . . YEAH. Helllooooo, editors are the people who find you the books you’re hot to read. As a writer, I can tell you that editors have vision; they are constantly thinking of their readership and their [...]

Dean Wesley Smith has a great article up on one of the traps a bunch of writers fall into: believing that, once they’d made a couple of sales, they know everything they need to know to keep selling. Uh . . . no. For me to keep my medical licenses current, I have to rack [...]

I’ve gotten a couple comments from folks who say that the RSS feed doesn’t work in the Google Chrome Browser.  My handy-dandy, trusty webmaster has looked into this–and indeed, this is an issue, though no one is sure why.  According to my WM, “the only explanations appear to be either that Chrome hasn’t  fully implemented [...]

Douglas Preston on consumers, entitlement and e-books: “The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,” said Douglas Preston, whose novel “Impact” reached as high as No. 4 on The New York Times’s hardcover fiction best-seller list earlier this month. “It’s the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our [...]

So I’ve been thinking a lot about what words are worth, considering all the brouhaha lately.  Lurk on a bunch of forums and blogs, and everyone’s been weighing in on their buying habits, how much they’re willing to pay, whether people should boycott ebooks priced higher than $15, etc., etc.  The latest salvo comes today; [...]