Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?

Are you making New Year’s resolutions this year? I don’t generally believe in making them, primarily because what makes it more likely you’ll change your ways magically because the digits in the year bumped up?

Okay. Fine. It’s a brand new year, all clean, shiny, and new. And you’re resolved. But, really, life goes on, and it all ends up being more of the same old, same old. And a resolve prompted only by a calendar change will likely dissolve.

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Indie vs. Traditional Publishing: Why Are We Still Debating This?

The following is something I wrote in 2011, before my first novel had become a New York Times ebook bestseller in March of that year. It stands as an example of how ebooks completely changed opportunities for authors who chose to go indie rather than wait for the traditional publishing world to notice them. A … Read more