Things happen.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my experience with publishing a novella on the Kindle, called Faery Merry Christmas. Publishing is one thing–selling books is something else altogether.  It requires time, effort, a little (lot of)  money, and a boatload of luck (which you [...]

Most authors are on a gob of readers’ lists. Sometimes I wonder if there are more authors on these lists than readers, but since authors are readers, let’s argue the value another day. For now, let’s discuss how to effectively promote your book using these lists.

First of all, please [...]

Hi everybody!

I was asked recently for a signed bookplate. Making bookplates, or buying them, for that matter, hadn’t entered my head until that moment. I loved the idea and decided to google, ask questions, and figure out how to create bookplates to send to fans. I’ve posted below the step by step instructions on exactly [...]

Authors are responsible for most of their own promotion now, moreso than any other time, from what I’ve been told. I doubt that will ease up any time soon. The successful authors of my personal acquaintance have spent considerable time and effort on publicity. These authors are on or near the NYT [...]

Or is it the other way around?

Can a mule twitter?

Can a faery blog?

Do readers enjoy seeing characters outside the book?

I admit, I’m a fan of characters and I like to hear their points of view on whatever subject we’re discussing. Too, it’s a departure from the every-author and [...]

If you like to blog and would like to make a few simple changes to your site but don’t know HTML, I’d like to pass on a few simple codes I’ve learned that might make a significant difference.  Most blogware (like WordPress) will have buttons you can click to bold, italicize and change the size of [...]

Hello everyone! Today I’ll be talking about book trailers; specifically, how to make them. They’re great promotional tools, fun to create, and relatively simple. I’ll take you through my process step by step. I know there are different ways of creating them and different programs to us, but I’ll stick with what I know [...]

Wild Design Wednesday!!

Hi there, here is my first small tutorial, and I promise you another later this evening. Part 1 is a Starfields tutorial, a quick and simple way of creating fantastic starscapes… play around with it, and see what you can come up with. The link to the site that taught me my first [...]

Hey, everybody!  Pamela here, finally, with the first post of my weekly column.  I’ll be focusing on the arts, be it writing, sketching, performance, comics, design or what-have-you.  My main passion is writing so I’ve started there.  I’ve come back to it after a long hiatus and have experienced many trials and tribulations on the [...]