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About This Writing Stuff…

This week, Peter Selgin offers ideas on dramatizing the routine in your story, writer pal Donna Galanti shines light on how to build your author persona, and Sue Weems suggests ways to combat multitasking that will improve your writing and save your sanity.

Despite arguments to the contrary, author blogging is not dead according to Anne R. Allen, and she provides eight solid reasons why.

Struggling to avoid hackneyed methods to describe your first-person POV character? Laura DiSilverio has some advice for you while James Scott Bell wants to pump you up—or at least your prose—by showing you how to immerse your reader in both action and emotion.

All that and a little more… Enjoy!

Four Ways to Create Your Author Persona by Donna Galanti

How to Make the Best Use of “Routine” Events in Your Fiction by Peter Selgin via Jane Friedman

‘The ebook is a stupid product: no creativity, no enhancement,’ says the Hachette Group CEO by Harsimran Gill

‘Laughably bad’: Terry Goodkind Apologises After Insulting Cover of His Own Book by Sian Cain

Get Some Blood Pumping in Your Prose by James Scott Bell

Why Multitasking is Killing Your Writing by Sue Weems

How the Internet Archive Infringed My Copyrights and Then (Kind of) Blew Me Off by Victoria Strauss

8 Reasons to Start an Author Blog by Anne R. Allen

6 Tips for Describing a First Person POV Character by Laura DiSilverio

Facebook’s Algorithm has Wiped Out a Once Flourishing Digital Publisher by Mike Shields


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River Reads Recap

No one could have asked for a more perfect autumn day for the River Reads Book Festival at Prallsville Mill in Stockton, NJ.  It was a pleasure to reunite with writer pals Kathryn Craft, Donna Galanti, and Jack Hillman and make some new friends including Kerry Gans, Kelly Simmons, River Reads organizer Brandi Megan Granett, and my tablemate, Kate Gallison.

Attendance was impressive for this first time event. I sold a few books, enjoyed fun conversations, inhaled some delicious crepes, and even managed to write several pages in a fantasy story I’ve been working on.

 

My Table at River Reads

Above: My table at River Reads Book Festival. Bellow: Sharing a laugh with Kelly Simmons.

Kelly Simmons

Kathryn Craft

Above: Hanging out with Kathryn Craft. Below: My tablemate, Kate Gallison.

Kate Gallison

Donna Galanti

Above: Donna Galanti is ready for Halloween. Below: River Reads coordinator Brandi Megan Granett.

Brandi Megan Granett