This has been an amazing week. For writers and publishers, the landscape is changing daily, even hourly. Amazon released the first month’s statistics on the Kindle Select Program. Amazing results were enjoyed by all the authors in the program. Amber Scott and Carolyn McCray both had books in the top ten revenues in the lending …
Category: Louise Behiel
What Are We Doing About the Children?
This blog begins a new series. A difficult one. A series that will likely be hard to read. But I believe that safety comes from being armed by facts. And if we know what to look for and how to recognize these situations, we can put an end to it. So take a deep breath …
WRITING WORKSHOPS: 21 Steps to Fog-Free Writing
In September I had the pleasure of taking this class from Writers Online Classes, with returning instructor Don McNair. The class advertisement read: Publishers and agents reject 99 percent of received manuscripts after simply glancing at their first chapters. This class shows why your own manuscript was rejected . . . and how to fix …
It’s the Bieb – Justin Bieber
SShh, don’t tell the young girls but tonight is my night with Justin Bieber. I watched him on e-Talk and watched him grow up in that thirty minutes. From a little kid to a mature young man (if any seventeen year old qualifies for that description). Then I watched his charity performance in Toronto. And …
Christmas Music and a Present
I love Calvin and Hobbes. Always have. Always will. Something about his attitude and point of view that grabs me. He says and does the things I’d sometimes like to do but being a goody goody I have never dared. So here’s a Calvin and Hobbes video about Christmas. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8iyhMFLYE] And this song is …