Monthly Archives: July 2011

Recently I came across “Essential Facts About the U.S. Book Consumer” for 2010, a pubtrack consumer report. With all the changes happening in the publishing industry the numbers will  certainly change in the next edition, but certain facts do grab … Continue reading →

If there was any doubt I had made the right decision about self-publishing it was put to rest this past week when a rejection letter from a Canadian  publisher arrived – 23 months after I had submitted the initial query. … Continue reading →

Ebooks have been around since the 1990′s, but it’s only been a couple of years since Amazon’s royalty rates made it lucrative for  authors to self publish. The Kindle store has hundreds of thousands of digital novels sitting on its … Continue reading →

Anyone who writes seriously, whether fiction or nonfiction, has mused (perhaps only once and briefly at that) about the immortality their completed books  might bring them. It only takes a minute or two for reality to bite, and one gets … Continue reading →

When it comes to plots and story lines in novels there’s nothing new under the sun. That maxim applies to espionage fiction as much as any other category. Since its heyday during the Cold War years, espionage fiction has spiked … Continue reading →