The Romance Industry

Romance and Feminism…This could change how you think of the genre!

The romance genre often gets a bad rap–usually by men, but also by pretty much everyone in traditional publishing, and a large group of industry professionals who look down their noses at the “women’s genre”. Which is sometimes hard to take, because I’m sure that many of the people disparaging romance have never read a […]

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Why Reviews Are Important–for readers AND authors.

If you’ve ever not left a review for a book you’ve loved (or hated!) because, well, who cares what you think?–then you should have a read through Kristen Lamb’s post “Book Reviews: Why They Matter SO Much“. It’s a really good overview of why reviews matter for both authors and readers. Even if you never

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Some Pretty Big Changes Coming Up

Some Pretty Big Changes Coming Up Several weeks ago, I sent this to my reader’s list: Among the writing community I have a bit of a reputation for championing “wide” publishing. Let me explain that. As a reader, I’m sure you’re familiar with Kindle Unlimited, a subscription service that Amazon provides which, for a low

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…*made* it! (And why it isn’t “phew!”)

One of the benefits that the new world of indie publishing gives to you, as a reader, is not exactly obvious on the surface. You have to know a bit about the publishing world to realize how awesome and amazing indie publishing really is. So let me give you the nickel tour of one of

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Dumb Drugs

Last Monday I woke up with a pain in the side of my back, that stabbed sharply when I breathed heavily. It hurt to raise my arm. As I had woken with it, I figured I’d slept funny, stressed a muscle or tendon, and that the pain would go away after a while. It got

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Are Print Publishers Really Doomed?

This is a series I wrote and released on this day seven years ago. As it turns out, I was prophetic.  Just about everything I spoke about in this series is more or less the state of the industry right now…or heading there.   For that reason, I’m bringing it forward again, so it doesn’t get

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