A client needed a photo added to their corporate bio (on their website). They sent me this photo: The website already had another photo with another company officer on the same page, and his was in portrait orientation and had been taken indoors at a professional photo studio. To match his style, something needed to [...]

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. Well, here are two pictures and I’ll slash the two thousand words I could have used to make my point. Deal? The old way to market (and publish) things: In print marketing we spread the word about our product (our book, movie, art, or gadget) as widely [...]

Patricia Wrede’s Out of Context (Overheard at 4th Street 2011) is a hilarious — and occasionally thought-provoking — read for writers and anyone into sci-fi and fantasy. Some of my favs: Genre books are built around secrets. The author borrows the reader’s brain; if he leaves potato chips ground into the carpet, we have a [...]

Many of my readers are Christians. Christians can be a challenging group to write to, because they’re not actually one group. They are many groups, and widely diverse. Some Christians pretty much demand everything to be G-rated. Always. Other Christians’ tastes don’t seem much different from non-Christians’, as far as entertainment and media content goes. [...]

Ran across an interesting discussion about e-books and self-publishing between authors Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler. I’ve never read their books (never even heard of them), but it’s fascinating to hear conversations like this. As I’m finally getting serious about my own self-publishing efforts, this is the sort of eavesdropping that makes me want to [...]