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Your First Book Reading
You’ve been asked to do a reading. Start your thinking with these realities: Some writers would rather paint walls than read their work out loud to an audience. Some authors are so enamored with their...
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Common Good Books
We visit a bookstore about once a week. Until Common Good Books moved to its new location, our default selection was a big box bookseller because that is what exists in our part of the Twin Cities. We...
View ArticleRisk Sharing
A key member of a small press asked why a publisher should accept financial risk for bringing a writer’s work to the market. His company expected writers to share in the cost of producing books and...
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Did I Tell You about Getting Sick?
So I spent a week in sick bay. Got some good fiction writing done between coughing attacks. Maybe traveling country roads with a fictional father and son was easier than dealing with a very real...
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About Book Festivals
Remember when the Scholastic Book Fair was set up in the hallways at your school? With clean order forms and a pencil in hand, you and your class got to walk through the stacks and pick out books that...
View ArticleWhy Buy That Book?
With hundreds of thousands of new book titles released every year, the possibility of making a good choice to read on that next plane ride is a crapshoot. Back cover blurbs can be as transparent as...
View ArticleMix and Match Social Media
What makes sense for my work to be discovered by readers? Here’s what I discovered: Women over 45 account for 58% of all books purchased. They rely on personal recommendations and like to visit...
View ArticleLocal Author Fair 2017
What could be more fun than holiday gift or winter reading shopping at event featuring 30 local authors chosen by librarians and readers? Please come join us at the Local Author Fair 2017 on Saturday,...
View ArticleKen Follett, Jodi Picoult and Phillipa Gregory
Some authors are like Facebook friends who post about a puppy, a grandchild, a new writing project, a spectacular vacation then disappear for months.
View ArticleThe Next Big Book
Writers are wondering how the pandemic will impact what people want to read. Will novels written in 2018 remain relevant?
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