Can’t afford an editor? Some tips to polish your prose.

So you’ve written a novel, and hiring an editor is absolutely out of the question. If you cannot trade for services or bribe one, here are a few tips for editing, in no particular order, that you might find useful when self-editing. Grammar, punctuation and … Read more »

100 Book Club Challenge

I’m always interested in new and unusual ways to promote books, and so I was excited to attend a meeting at Willamette Writers to hear Luminare author Danuta Pfeiffer and Luminare friend Kathleen Cremonesi discuss their 100 Book Club Challenge. Danuta and Kathleen have been … Read more »

Why Self-Publish?

While riding my bike to the office this morning, I thought about a friend who had just achieved ultra-randonneur status (I had to look it up too). I felt a little ashamed – here I was toodle-ing along on my fat tire commuter bike, complete … Read more »