by IQ140 | Jan 15, 2025 | Editing
Some years ago, I had a friend in a writing group who offered me her manuscript. Though outside my usual genre of interest, I enjoyed the story. It needed some editorial manipulation but held my interest. When I saw her at our monthly meeting, she told me she changed...
by IQ140 | Dec 24, 2024 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
In About Us, I present myself as a “Marketing guy.” I’ve spent the shank of my career as such with one addendum: “Marketing guy with a budget.” Sometimes that budget went into six figures. Trying to distill the essence of marketing a book, without a considerable...
by IQ140 | Dec 24, 2024 | Traditional Publishing
3:00 am eastern time, January 30, 2007, “Mystical.” It was the first word of my first novel. Completed five months later, and after 300 queries, it was picked up by an agent in 2008, and sold to a publisher in the U.K., finally hitting the bookshelves in...
