Liz Strauss said it better than I ever could.
In summary, publishing is a business. Even if you self-publish, you’ve got to impress your editor and your publisher with a product that can sell. Do your editor and publisher have the skills to know what readers will buy?
The hard part is the marketing. If you aren’t [...]
After much thought I have decided upon a course of action that will change the way this blog is written and published. I have very much enjoyed the last 11 months of writing it and consider myself to just be getting started. This is a critical time for this blog because most blogs, if they [...]
My regular readers will know that I am passionate about poetry. I have been since my college days when I wrote my first real poem, a lyrical ars poetica titled “Threesome.” I wrote the poem in response to “Satan Says” by Sharon Olds, who was the first contemporary poet I was subjected to. Her first [...]