This just in from WestSide Books: the new release date for Cracking the Ice is now January 15. I must admit that I would have preferred the book be available for the holidays, but I’m trusting that readers will find the book and feel it was worth the wait.
A great title
I don’t know if the book is any good, but the title sure is great – You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness by Julie Klam. Even though I’m not the book’s target audience, the title had me smiling and leafing through the pages. Any title that can do […]
It isn’t just publishers
Writers often roll their eyes at the decisions of their publishers that just don’t seem to make any sense. But I’ve found an instance at that intersection of movies and music that makes it clear those publishers aren’t alone. If you’ve heard the trailer to the movie Like Crazy, you may have been as captivated […]
Steve Jobs speaks to writers
In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a commencement address that I think speaks volumes to writers. Here is a link.
Website statistics
I just looked at my website’s statistics for September. The number one search item that brought people to my site was one word in the title of my short story “Tiffany Gets Her Boobs.” Guess which one. I don’t think I got many bookmarks from that crowd.
“Tiffany” a Kindle Humor bestseller!
“Tiffany Gets Her Boobs” now ranks 13th on the Kindle Free Download bestseller list in the Humor category! (That’s after only about a week of its price being dropped to free.) Written under the pen name David Bawdy, “Tiffany” is a fun, short story prequel to Bubba Goes for Broke and has been very well […]
Cracking the Ice cover
Here’s the cover for Cracking the Ice. I don’t know about you, but I love it! I’ll post a higher resolution version as soon as I can overcome some uploading problems with my website provider. (Don’t get me started…) Isn’t the cover great?
Cracking the Ice galleys are in
I received the galleys for Cracking the Ice last week, made the appropriate corrections, and sent them back to WestSide Books today. (The galleys represent the final layout of the book, barring last-minute changes.) It won’t be long now before the Advance Review Copies become available followed by the real thing. The release date is scheduled […]
New Half-Year’s Resolutions
Most normal people wait for the end of December to roll around before deciding on New Year’s Resolutions. I, however, have never been called normal and don’t feel like waiting the six months. So here are my Half-Year’s Resolutions. Write 150,000 words of new fiction. This averages to a little under 6000 words each week. […]
Surviving the Kris Rusch Death March
I’m writing this from gate D9 at the Portland, Oregon airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston after spending over a week on the Oregon Coast. I’m tired but very excited about my writing and what the future holds. I was one of eighteen professional writers working with Kristine Kathryn Rusch (and at the […]