The last of our Paths to Publishing post is up at the Snarkology blog, where you can join Rachel Leigh Smith for another inspirational story about persistence and broadened horizons. Rachel read voraciously as a homeschooled child and teenager, putting her love of words to work in an intricate shared-world saga with a best…
Read More Paths to Publishing – Rachel Leigh SmithI had a long, involved email exchange recently with some writer friends scattered around the world: print authors, digital authors, authors working for commercial contracts, authors who’ve gone almost exclusively to self-publishing. We all came to mostly the same conclusion: We think the future, or at least the near-future to five or ten years out,…
Read More Self-publishing and Hybrid Authors, pt 1Singer in Rhunshan is now in its more or less final form, hovering around 16,000 words/75 pages. Too big for a short story now, but respectable for a novelette. It is a romantic fantasy action/adventure with discreet hints of a male/male/female love triangle (but no actual sex in this part of the story), and a…
Read More ‘Singer in Rhunshan’ novelette inches closer to publication