I may have only one sale of Doctor 
Luke’s Assistant, but it now has two reviews. These are from people at a Facebook page, Christian Author’s Book Marketing Strategies, to whom I gave advance reader copies. Well, I suppose they didn’t get them in advance of the book being published, but that’s the closest term I can think of.
I hope you’ll follow the link and check out the reviews.
I visited Terry Whalin’s blog today, and saw this post: Stop the Cycle of Unfinished Projects. And I immediately thought that’s what I need. I have a lot of unfinished projects in the air, mainly for writing, but also for things around the house, mainly financial type things. I guess for the next couple of …
Talk to people who are involved with traditional publishing about the role of editors, and you hear mixed messages. Some say publishers no long provide significant editing services. The author submits a “camera ready” manuscript, and it gets published. Any errors are the fault of the author, not the publisher. Still others insist that the …
Saturday afternoon I finished reading through In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People, marking locations to improve the text. Most of the edits were for typos, improving odd sentence structure, and fixing name problems. By that I mean where I used people’s names too much in dialogue. Also, I found one embarrassing error in a …
I haven’t posted anything here for a while. I’ve been writing, just not here. Last week, May 3-4, I attended the Story Weaver’s conference of the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. This was my first time to go to this conference and my first general market conference. I spent several days preparing material. I figured this …
My income from writing remains small, but is coming in slowly but surely. Most of it is produced by my Buildipedia articles. I have a twice per month column on construction administration. Here’s a link to my profile, which includes links to articles. I earn $100 for each of these articles. Payment comes about three …
Since about April 18 I have been editing In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People. My time goals for this were: 1) to have the manuscript complete so that I can pitch it to an editor at a writers conference in Oklahoma City on Friday, May 4; and 2) to be ready to self-publish it …
I mentioned that John Grisham’s newest book, Calico Joe, is a baseball novel. Some people say it’s so short that it borders between being a novel and a novella. I looked at it at Barnes & Noble last Friday, and it appeared a normal length book. Perhaps it had big font, big margins, and thick …
…have gone astray. I have neglected my two blogs. Well, I suppose a Friday to Monday gap is not actually ignoring, but it’s now what I intended. Life got in the way. Last week I received a subpoena to give a deposition this Wednesday in a lawsuit. I’ve spent most of my working time since …
As I reported in my last post, I had trouble writing this week. Receiving the subpoena to give a deposition in a lawsuit (our company is involved only as witnesses at this point, and all the attorneys believe it will stay that way) resulted in my spending a lot of energy in preparation. Reading through …
An Arrow Through the Air
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