Xandra | March 26, 2010
Over the past several months, there’s been fierce debate raging over what, exactly, ebooks mean to the present and future of publishing. Publishers of traditional, paper-based books are finding it no longer optional to address a growing demand for their content in digital form. Arising from that discussion is the need for people to determine [...]
Xandra | March 12, 2010
Anyone who’s a parent knows that it’s almost impossible for the kids not to show up in the middle of the night and burrow in next to you at least some time in their young lives. Mine are notorious for midnight flights, and it never ceases to wake me up as soon as I hear [...]
Xandra | March 8, 2010
But I swear I had a great excuse. I had a :gasp!: computer issue (easily solvable, I love linux and the community that supports it *in instantaneous realtime, no matter how late it is!*). Computer, easily surmountable. Two sick kids with tummy bugs…not so much. There is no support community or quick fix for that [...]
Xandra | February 26, 2010
This week I submitted the sequel to Jolly Rogered. I’ve been submitting manuscripts since 1998. Granted, I write slow, and many of my submissions have been to traditional publishing (and via snailmail, to boot), so it’s not as if glaciers move much slower than the process. Every time I do this, I get a little [...]
Xandra | February 19, 2010
A very wise, multi-pubbed chapter member once stood up in front of our local RWA chapter and said, in a quiet voice, “Promo will eat you alive.” It almost went unheard amidst the exciting chatter about what it was like to get “the call,” work with an editor, decide whether to hire a publicist, and [...]
Xandra | February 16, 2010
I was overjoyed to receive the news that Jolly Rogered received a 4.5-star, Top Pick review from Vallerianna over at Night Owl Romance! It made me squee to see that someone else loved Nigel as much as I do. It’s easy for a writer to become obsessed about finding reviews–it can really kill your writing [...]
Xandra | February 2, 2010
I’ve blogged before about Harlequin’s decision to include a vanity arm in order to monetize the slush pile. Suffice it to say that any situation where you pay for the privilege of only getting half the money from the sale of something you’ve created and paid all the money to create is only even remotely [...]
Xandra | January 29, 2010
Yeah, you knew the pic was coming with a title like that. But Jack Sparrow has a point, yanno? Any pirate worth his salt has to be able to taste which way the wind is blowing. The same goes for writers. The minute you press “Publish” on your first blog post, or the minute you [...]
Xandra | November 25, 2009
Epublishing’s terrain favors the light and the quick. Large, lumbering organizations that are unable to turn on a dime or pinpoint a trending subject will be lagging. Not that there aren’t advantages about playing it safe, but if the music industry has shown us anything, it’s that consumable entertainment–music, games, web shows, media including stories–needs [...]
Xandra | November 20, 2009
I know I should probably blog more about my books and focus my blog at them, after all, this is my author persona, and I have other places to rant. And since it’s NaNoNovember, I shouldn’t be blogging much at all–I should be adding word counts to WIPs. But this is something I’m getting foamy [...]
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