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Can You Afford to Get Published?
I wrote this post a decade ago. I’ve given it some tweaks, but it is still true. Probably more true now than ever. Unless you’re an A-List author, the burden of marketing mostly falls on you, and it is expensive. … Continue reading
Literary Adventurer Plots Her Next Journey
Kate Flora: I’ve written here before about the perplexing challenges presented to today’s writer about balancing time for writing with time for marketing, tweeting, facebooking, and generally staying visible to readers on all the various platforms. It’s exhausting. If you read … Continue reading
Inside or Outside: It's the season of conflict
Kate Flora here, pondering on a subject much on my mind this summer: How a writer balances Maine summer with the need to be at her desk. You know, from reading this blog, that I love being in my garden, … Continue reading
Makes Me Want to Kick the Cat
Kate Flora: It’s a darn good thing I don’t write cozy mysteries, starting out with a title like that, right? Well, as another presenter at Murder by the Book this weekend put it, I write medium boiled mysteries in my … Continue reading
In My Little Black Book – Part 1 – A Sense of Place
Kate Flora here, writing from the other coast. I’ve written before about the distraction of reading books in my genre when I’m deeply into a story of my own. Today’s post is a variation on that–the distraction of reading books … Continue reading
