My friends, The long-anticipated moment is here! Forecast is now available to order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in both print and ebook format! I will be shouting this exciting news from the rooftops, and if you want to help me shout it, too I don't mind! Feel free to tell your friends, post the news on Facebook or Twitter or wherever you already are…
Last week I received my first writing review with some serious professional clout. As you know if you've been following this blog, I was a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards this year for my novel Moonlight and Oranges, which is a huge honor and a nice pat on the back. I'd never made it this far in a large contest before. After the quarter-finals, comes…
Marketing myself as a writer is a lesson I've been gradually learning over the past few moths. Usually I'd grit my teeth about this. Many writers absolutely hate marketing. It feels uncreative, its exhausting, it feels like bragging, etc. But it teaches us how to talk to others about our writing. That's essentially what marketing is--a way to clearly communicate what we're about to the greater world. The time the…