Daily Archives: March 29, 2021
Reader Request Week 2021 #2: Book Numbers
Posted on March 29, 2021 7 Comments
Michael Doherty has a question about publisher practices around book sale numbers. Specifically: I’ve never understood why publishers appear to be so cagey about the numbers of books they sell. Have your publishers ever asked that you not reveal how many copies your books have sold? No, and honestly I would be surprised if they […]
Reader Request Week 2021 #1: Creative Kids in a Computer Age
Posted on March 29, 2021 22 Comments
It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to start this year’s Reader Request Week! To kick things off, Matt S asks: Computers today are mostly consumption devices. Tablets, cell phones, smart watches… How do I make sure my young son will grow up having the passion to CREATE instead of only passively being entertained? Well, […]
The Big Idea: Dorothy Winsor
Posted on March 29, 2021 4 Comments
Family. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em — but it seems that in one way or another we return to them. This seems to be the case in Dorothy Winsor’s newest speculative fiction novel, The Trickster, both for the characters and the author. Follow along in her Big Idea as she explains how the […]
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