Have a new date for the publication of “Warming Up” by She Writes Press, now set for March 1, 2013. This gives me some additional time to make a plan for promotion of this, my second novel to reach print. Promotion is essential to publication, because publication by itself is an empty reward. Without distribution and...Read More
Last night LCA’s “family” celebrated its 40th anniversary with a very fun evening planned by Board Member Maureen Collins. The party favor was a copy of “LCA: The First Forty Years,” which I wrote this summer and published with CreateSpace. It was a great project for several reasons, primarily because it gave us a chance to...Read More
Here’s the link to an interview with my literary agent, April Eberhardt, a real advocate for authors and a “literary change agent.” She’s the one who encouraged me to sign with She Writes Press for the publication of Warming Up this fall.Read More
In January, 2012, I repriced the Kindle edition of Courting Kathleen Hannigan to the oh-so-trendy 99 cents and got a great bump in sales—up to 11 from the 4 the month before and 11 for all of 2011. Well, ok, this is a “backlist” book, having first been published in paperback in 2007 (three quarters...Read More
All writers know that if you pay an editor to review your manuscript, they’ll earn their fee and then some. At the suggestion of my agent, I recently solicited the feedback of a “developmental editor” who lacerated 25 pages at a cost of $200. She says she read 50, and she was confident I’d get...Read More
Just pushed the “publish” button on a 193 page paperback, pferfect bound history of Lawyers for the Creative Arts called “LCA: The First Forty Years.” I spent some time going through the existing minutes of this nonprofit legal services organization which provides pro bono services to emerging artists and arts organizations. Found the names of...Read More
I just made 30+ minor edits to Warming Up, the novel which will be published by She Writes Press in the fall. This is after my agent sent her 30+ “pick-ups” over the weekend–little things like commas, and extra spaces, and the occasional clunker of a word. This, after the thing has been read word-for-word...Read More
Women writers among you have probably already heard about She Writes new self-publishing press. What makes it different–and this is an idea I worked on in a project dubbed Chicago Public Press that we had trouble getting funded–is the vetting of manuscripts. It’s self-publishing, but not for every manuscript, so if you read a She...Read More
The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society named WARMING UP to the SHORT LIST for the William Wisdom/William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. SALUTING THE SUN and MARKERS were both named to the LONG LIST for the same Prize. A short story, OH, about care-taking and letting go, was named a SEMI-FINALIST in the same competition’s SHORT...Read More
