Dana Lynn Smith – The Savvy Book Marketer (Interview, Part 1)
Over the last couple months, I've been digging into the publishing (and self-publishing) industry from various vantage points in order to get some insider info for the writing community I'm a part of.
That journey has included speaking with Boyd Morrison, top-selling author of the Ark, who told me about his forward thinking self-publishing story; Michael Prescott, top-selling author of The Shadow Hunter, who recounted his self-publishing journey; Joanna Penn, prominent writing blogger ...
Interview with Wee Gee – Kevin Smokler, author of Bookmark Now and Practical Classics
Over the last couple months, I've been digging into the publishing (and self-publishing) industry from various vantage points in order to get some insider info for the writing community I'm a part of.
That journey has included speaking with Boyd Morrison, top-selling author of the Ark, who told me about his forward thinking self-publishing story; Michael Prescott, top-selling author of The Shadow Hunter, who recounted his self-publishing journey; Joanna Penn, prominent writing blogger ...
Changes I’ve been thinking about … do you have an opinion?
In September of 2011, I laid down my red pen. After nine years teaching English and writing to high schoolers, it felt a little dramatic . . . like a sheriff turning in his badge and riding into the sunset to see what the open plains still held for him...or her. =)
I headed for the quieter (well, theoretically quieter) life of writing at home. I already freelance for some media and event companies. And mostly, let's be serious, I devote my life to serving the Emperor.
(Note: ...
Someone Much Bigger And Greater Than You Is With You
A while back, I interviewed Donald Miller about the journey behind the Blue Like Jazz movie.
A lot of the conversation was quirky and awkward . . . which I would happily blame on Don except that I'm pretty sure my idiosyncrasies strangled any normalcy from the call the moment I said hello.
It just so happened Don phoned just as I pulled up to a strange, remote lakeside cabin I had never been to. Literally the phone rang the second my wheels touched the gravel of the driveway.
I ...
Jonah Lehrer: How Creativity Works – Wired, New Yorker, How We Decide Author
The How We Decide Writer Platformed by the New York Times, Wired and the New Yorker
Whenever a book on creativity is released by a New York Times best-selling author (the guy behind How We Decide), who also happens to be a writer for the New Yorker and Wired, I have a strict policy. Buy the book.
(So far this has happened to me once.)
Jonah Lehrer's new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, starts with a niche story about a bored-out-of-his-mind Bob Dylan, whose life became a bit of ...