I earn more writing novels than short stories — and you probably will too
For several years now, I’ve been earning the majority of my income by writing fiction under a variety of pen names you’ve never heard of. And it isn’t anything special about me. Thousands of authors you’ve never heard of are quietly making a full-time living creating fiction.
True, thousands of…
A guide to some of my most popular and useful stories
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Writing, Self-Publishing, and the Full-time Author
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Fiction
Is it just me, or was the Medium Writer’s Challenge a complete goat rodeo?
I never know if a problem with the stories I see is a problem that appears for everyone. That’s the trouble with algorithms that pick stories for your feed, especially when you’re a writer. They think you want to read a lot of things you don’t.
Still, early on, it…
Life Lessons from Poker
How you win more when you invest like you’re holding aces (even if they’re deuces)
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, and you win 0% of the pots you don’t play. When privileged people speak of ‘de-risking’ their investments, you should take it with several grains of salt. …
Small alligators think they’ve perfectly camouflaged
By nine-thirty on a cloudless October morning, it’s already too hot and too bright for good photography. But I couldn’t resist taking a quick stroll around Fontainebleau State Park, a lakefront park on the north shore of the greater New Orleans area.
Bald Eagles return each winter to breed in…
Many top self-publishers have dropped these strategies, and you can too if you want to write and sell more books
The other day I bumped up against a blog purporting to tell me seven free tactics I could use to sell a self-published book. Alas, based on my experience as a full-time writer/self-publisher, not even one of the tactics was likely to sell many books. …
When an author “borrows” from an unknown, maybe her famous friends don’t need to egg it on
Let’s say I’m one of these do-gooder types who literally donates an organ while I’m still alive, and let’s say I obnoxiously post a lot on Facebook about it, and let’s say some author frenemy of mine takes one of my Facebook posts word-for-word because it’s just “too good.”
And…
