Written Well

Full disclosure: if this post sounds like it’s from a crotchety old man, it’s probably because I am a crotchety old man and you need to get off my lawn. All right, with that out of the way, I want to talk about how books about history are always better than movies. Yes, always. I said it. But it’s not for the reasons they say: movies are a compressed form, and changes have to be made to fit the narrative into it. Bullshit. If you want to change things for the narrative, write fiction. You can have any narrative in …

You can do everything right: write a good book, get a good cover, write a great blurb and description, create good ads, run promotions with trustworthy promotion sites — and if your writing doesn’t connect with readers, your book won’t sell. And you have to be okay with that. Because that’s the business. Readers make the business go. Without readers, there are no writers. They are so important, I call writing a collaborative act between the writer and each individual reader. And you can’t force them to like your book. You can help them find it. You can encourage them …

I have gotten all our testers memberships and two are already online and checking out the site. I am both excited and anxious. In some ways, this is the culmination of a year’s worth of work, in others it is just the beginning. A real inflection point on the road map of this project. The first typo was found at 1:20pm CST, where I (and it was definitely me, as it was in the Epic Fantasy Blueprint) typed Spuernatural instead of Supernatural. I tried to claim it was the German spelling, but no one believed me. It is fixed now. …