Authors are asking big questions these days, such as whether they'll ever use AI to write a phrase or more of their books. Maybe you saw that New York Times article about the romance author who wrote 200 books last year. Yep. Did it all with AI, and proud of it. She’s teaching … [Read more...] about I’m Building a Bot, But Not for Books.
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What It’s Like to Be On Sub
What's it like to have your manuscript on submission to publishers? How do you make it through the process? This is the third time I've been "on sub." No Small Thing is circulating to a select group of editors, thanks to the pitch work of Tara Gelsomino, my agent. I'm sharing … [Read more...] about What It’s Like to Be On Sub
Author Head Shots: Why You Need My Friend Teresa
Teresa Porter of My Friend Teresa Studios made it all perfect. Author head shots went swimmingly, despite me and all my neuroses. [Here's me talking myself off a ledge in a post.] Teresa got me laughing. That's what great photographers do. They relax your humming brain, they … [Read more...] about Author Head Shots: Why You Need My Friend Teresa
Four Ways to Fight Imposter Syndrome: How Authors Just Need to Chill
I decided to hold forth in a video in the very real fear us authors feel about imposter syndrome. I just finished the latest revision of my young adult novel, No Small Thing, and I’ve been thinking about how I handle the imposter syndrome. So many of us face the feeling that … [Read more...] about Four Ways to Fight Imposter Syndrome: How Authors Just Need to Chill