This week! Books! Could the end be near for mass market paperbacks, the small book format that has populated many a supermarket rack over the years? Mass market paperbacks have declined to 3% of all book sales, profit margins were always slim, and distributor Readerlink will stop shipping them at the end of 2025. According […]
Here’s a near-ironclad maxim that’s worth taping above your laptop: You’re a more confusing writer than you think you are. You know exactly what your words mean. You can visualize every scene you write in vivid detail no matter how scant your physical description may be. Writers inevitably project details onto the page that aren’t […]
The blog will be dark the next few weeks for a winter break. Feel free to reach out to me for editing! This week! Books! I particularly enjoyed this week’s crop of articles, which have served as a nice respite from *waves at the world outside* all of that. First, let’s get some of the […]
With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! This past week, publishing tongues were wagging as […]
Let me be clear from the start: There’s no one way to write a chapter. There are no rules about chapters. A chapter could be a few words, it could be a hundred pages. It could be all dialogue, it could be all action, it could be nothing but emojis and hieroglyphics. You do you! […]