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Creating believable relationships: Who are your characters’ imagos?
My husband and I made it through 23 years of marriage before certain fundamental issues caused us to decide to part as friends. I doubt we would have made it anywhere close to that long if we hadn’t,...
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The five stages of grief of being rejected by BookBub
“Grief of Andromache for Hector” from The Peep-Show: Amusement and Instruction for the Young, circa 1877. This and the background art below courtesy of reusableart.com. DENIAL. This stage can’t last...
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How authors can have fun with Pinterest
Like most Pinterest users, I tend to poke around in there for home decor, garden ideas, and recipes, as well as art and photography. But authors can get a lot of other use out of it, too. I’m sure the...
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Recipe for becoming a writer: be an outsider
by Sandra Hutchison I know there are writers who never leave the town they were born in (think Emily Dickinson), but that’s far from my own experience. We moved often as my father’s career in...
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What a failed Kindle Countdown Deal looks like
What you see here is what is known in babies as failure to thrive. In a book, it’s called not having legs. Or stinking up the joint. When I ran a Kindle Countdown Deal for The Awful Mess, that spike...
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Having trouble getting images to show in a revised Kindle book?
The only reason this is here — midweek, off the regular schedule — is so I can find it again someday. But who knows, maybe you’ll have the same problem I did. I’m quoting these instructions from...
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Is it the cover? A PickFu polling case study
by Sandra Hutchison It became clear during my recent Kindle Countdown Deal that my second novel was not catching on as well as my first. Intellectually, I had expected this. It has a literary title, it...
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Technology, gay rights, the Confederate flag, and other cool ways to date...
It’s exhilarating to be living through so much change, especially when it seems to be going in the right direction. But what if your books become dated because of it? Earlier this month at the Glens...
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Indie author moves to Booktrope: An Interview with Massimo Marino
Sandra Hutchison interviews fellow Awesome Indies author Massimo Marino about his decision to republish his indie titles (and future titles) at Booktrope, an eBook publisher that is staking out new...
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Writing rape: Where do you draw the line?
Is it literature or romantic fantasy or voyeurism or porn when rape happens in a novel? If you’re the writer, presumably you know what you want it to be. But wanting doesn’t always make it so. I keep...
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The writing life: Should we risk offending people, or not?
Last month, an article in the Romance Writers of America newsletter Romance Writers Report by Jennifer Fusco caused quite a bit of controversy by recommending that authors avoid controversy. It gave...
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Another year of blogging and trying to figure this stuff out
I fell off my once-a-week publication schedule after the last post, for a number of reasons: My Bluehost web site began to experience horrific downtime, which made it seem rather pointless not to...
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After an indie start, an author transitions to traditional publishing
Sandra Hutchison interviews Nicole Blades, a Montreal native who moved to New York and found success writing across a variety of media, including a first novel with a small Canadian press, followed by...
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The five stages of grief of being rejected by BookBub
“Grief of Andromache for Hector” from The Peep-Show: Amusement and Instruction for the Young, circa 1877. This and the background art below courtesy of reusableart.com. DENIAL. This stage can’t last...
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How authors can have fun with Pinterest
Like most Pinterest users, I tend to poke around in there for home decor, garden ideas, and recipes, as well as art and photography. But authors can get a lot of other use out of it, too. I’m sure the...
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Recipe for becoming a writer: be an outsider
by Sandra Hutchison I know there are writers who never leave the town they were born in (think Emily Dickinson), but that’s far from my own experience. We moved often as my father’s career in...
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What a failed Kindle Countdown Deal looks like
What you see here is what is known in babies as failure to thrive. In a book, it’s called not having legs. Or stinking up the joint. When I ran a Kindle Countdown Deal for The Awful Mess, that spike...
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Having trouble getting images to show in a revised Kindle book?
The only reason this is here — midweek, off the regular schedule — is so I can find it again someday. But who knows, maybe you’ll have the same problem I did. I’m quoting these instructions from...
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Is it the cover? A PickFu polling case study
by Sandra Hutchison It became clear during my recent Kindle Countdown Deal that my second novel was not catching on as well as my first. Intellectually, I had expected this. It has a literary title, it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Technology, gay rights, the Confederate flag, and other cool ways to date...
It’s exhilarating to be living through so much change, especially when it seems to be going in the right direction. But what if your books become dated because of it? Earlier this month at the Glens...
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