What is A Professional Writer?
“Is writing about money or being more professional?” This is an excellent question and one that several people have asked over the course of me writing for this blog. As such, I want to give it the air time it deserves. Standards,…
Make an Impact While Blogging for a Living
Wouldn’t we all like to have a blog that impacts peoples’ lives. We’d love to write ‘THE’ book that changes the game around, and makes us into something more. Except we have to contend with the rat-race, and nobody really…
Social Networking And Kindle E-books
If you have already published an eBook, the basic premise is still selling your book. While this is still the same, you need the social networking sites now more than ever. You will need to sell your book to the market that…
Book Review: The Information Officer
The Information Officer is a thriller. There’s a book of historical-fiction I recommend entitled The Information Officer published in 2009, by Mark Mills. Set during WWII on the island of Malta, a British protectorate just south of Sicily, in the Mediterranean…
Publishing an E-book and Kindle
Are you ready to publish an e-book? Before you publish an ebook it makes smart business sense to go to Amazon, and do some keyword searches on what is selling, and how people will find your ebook. Ebooks can be published…
Michael Crichton’s Timeline, and The Relativity of Time
From the author of Jurassic Park…. I’m currently rereading Timeline, published in 1999, by the late Michael Crichton, famous for writing Jurassic Park and the Lost World. (He didn’t write anything remotely resembling Jurassic World or Jurassic Park III, just the…
On Immunity, Eula Biss, or the Invasion of the Microbes
Mark Zuckerberg loves this book. So does Bill Gates. This book caught me by surprise, and I found myself enjoying it a lot. If you like reading something controversial and fantastic, then I strongly recommend On Immunity: An Inoculation, 2014,…
The Labyrinth Approach To Writing
True success is a labyrinth. It takes action. It takes logic. it takes perseverance. And it takes courage. Granted, my experience with labyrinths is pretty much restricted to a yearly corn maze adventure around Halloween and enjoying some James Dashner, and his book…