Guest Blogger Marti Talbott – Advice For The Indie Tyro
My books started out terrible – worse than terrible. Now I am the proud author of 22 books and yes, I make well above the yearly average you quoted [$3500–CO]. In fact, I make more than that a month… I offer a few tips that might help. Give yourself...The Big Book of How to Publish a Book
If you don’t own this book, buy it: I learned about Jeff Herman’s book at a writers conference last year, from a pleasant, soft-spoken, gray-haired man who makes his living writing erotica. The book lists publishing houses by genre, their editors by...
The Sleeping Madonna
Gina’s face in the moonlight stirs a childhood memory for Matt.
A Face in the Crowd
I feel like Waldo. I’m wearing my striped shirt, my goofy stocking cap and my horned-rims and I’m still nearly invisible, even if you’re looking for me. Have you ever seen the movie A Face in the Crowd? Radio producer Marcia Jeffries (Patricia...Friends and Family
I love my family. They love me. They account for 90% of my book sales–so far. And they’ve written some awesome reviews of The Girlfriend Experience. Their praise is so effusive it turns my head. Of course, I think it’s well deserved. Our side...The Blog Circuit
The topic today is Search Engine Optimization–SEO. It’s best done organically. That means I need to get the book out in the Internet, in places people look. In my previous post you read about my pitiful attempts at creating an Internet presence, including...
Countdown to Ecstasy (Apologies to Steely Dan)
The guy who said build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door probably didn’t account for two million other people making mousetraps. Some of them really good traps. My first attempt at promotion was the “like swap.” And the...Genesis of a Story
Which came first, the hooker or the spy? There are a lot of elements in The Girlfriend Experience, some peripheral and some central to the plot. The response from readers suggests that the technology dominates the story. That’s a little disappointing to me since...
I did it! Now what?
I hear that real writers write five words for every one they keep. Or ten. I kept more than 50%, probably closer to 75%. Doing the math, that means somewhere between sixty and ninety percent of the book is crap. I’ll be darned if I can sort it out. It all looks good to me. Not being the creative type, I can’t just assume that because I wrote it, it has to be good.
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