Xandra Gregory

The Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns

Eaten Alive

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 to [...]

Edits Away!

Xandra | August 6, 2009

Surprisingly, it took me a week to get through the copy edits of Jolly Rogered. I’m very happy to be working with the same editor I had with Alien Communion–she’s a grammatical nitpicker and I’m down with that. Plus, it gave me a chance to catch a rather glaring error I had on [...]

Writing On The Wall: Publishing’s Future…It Ain’t Greek

Xandra | January 29, 2009

Okay, it is…but it’s subtitled.
He’s no Greek Tycoon, and I dunno if there are any pregnant virgin mistresses on his trillion-dollar yacht…but there just may be one or two on his Kindle.
And shame on us, America, when Greece buys books for every student.