Appearances… Tips for author interviews 11 Nov 20259 Nov 2025 Some of us thrive in the spotlight; some of us not so much. Either way, if you're an author promoting a book, you are going to end up being interviewed.…
Books… 11 ideas for promoting your new book 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025 It's a shock to the system. Really. You've finished your book, you've either landed a contract with a traditional publisher or made arrangements to self-publish. You're sitting back, waiting for…
Books… Gotchas in Book Contracts 27 Feb 2025 When I had an opportunity to move from self-publishing to traditional publishing years ago, I didn't think I needed a literary agent. I landed contracts through personal connections and highly-targeted…
Writing AI in Microsoft Word: Not Ready for Primetime 24 Feb 2025 It seems like every product on the tech market has to have artificial intelligence these days. There's AI built into all of the big software suites (Microsoft, Google, Adobe...), of…
Writing Poop Emojis: Law and Confusion 10 Apr 20235 May 2023 As the Who 💩 in the Park guy, I have opinions on the "smiling poop" emoji. Any emoji aficionado would know that there are a lot of ways to interpret…
Books… An updated state-by-state look at the Who Pooped series 19 Nov 20175 May 2023 A few years ago, I got to wondering how many different states were covered by my Who Pooped? series, and it led to a blog post that is now obsolete, as…
Writing A huge milestone in poop! 16 Nov 20177 Jan 2022 Overall, yesterday wasn't a great day. My tea shop's main computer died during a Windows 10 update, our wi-fi went utterly wonky, my phone stopped making or accepting calls, I…
Books… When being an author is fun 25 May 20165 May 2023 Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their…
Writing Do you need an editor? 24 Oct 201527 Feb 2025 Yes. That was a short article, wasn't it? At the MPIBA conference last weekend, just about everybody had stories to share of authors who don't think they need an editor,…
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