I suspect that much like the authors, actresses and actors, receive payment for their services in much the same fashion, and timing as Scott Pratt describes in a post on his blog, The Writer’s Predicament. He writes: “ … And the advance money? The fifty thousand? This is how they [the publisher] doled it out.…
During a recent discussion, Attention Self-Publishers, at Definitive Serious Writers at LinkedIn, an author lamented the difficult task of finding the time to both write and market their work. Promoting and marketing one’s work as a writer or novelist, how best and most effectively to do this, and remained focused upon the writing of your…
When I first began writing, I wanted to write, because I wanted to have published something. In 2000, I started writing, because I had something to say. In 2000, during Lent I studied the life of Hannah, the mother of Samuel as a model for making sacrifices. By the autumn, I was working on a…
“There are writers and there are authors. Writers seek to write, and they seek to write better and better with every book. Authors seek only to be published, and they seek advances to match their egos.” –Elizabeth George in Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life by Terry Brooks. Elizabeth George offers this…
Readying your book for publication, i.e. the printing and binding of the words you have penned is an illuminating process. First of all, if you’re like me, a perfectionist, nothing you read of the novel or story seems right. All the sentences you spent hours upon hours crafting, shaping, editing, refining and then re-writing sound…
But I want to stay with mothers, because so often when we write we, and the world, does not take seriously what we do seriously, particularly if we choose to operate primarily as a mother, and a writer second. Those of us who choose to place our writing second do so because I think on…
