J.A. Marlow

Okay, back to the business. I need product to sell. From previous posts (and a lot of thinking) I know it needs the following qualities: * New project * Project must be ready for release somewhere between January to March 2011 * Novella length (17,500 to 40,000 words) We talked before about an Idea File. [...]

I’ve made a business decision to see what might happen as an Indi Author/Publisher. As I want this to be successful, I cannot just let things fall as they may. So, it’s time to make a few hard decisions. I need to go into this with a plan. A full business plan will come later, [...]

Do I think print books are dead? Absolutely not. I love them and so do a great many others. But I also see things changing, and the print form of books may take a different (and smaller) market segment than they do now. Along with them will go the ‘traditional’ path of the big publisher. [...]

It seems that at some point in January the plug-in for WordPress stopped forwarding the same post to my Livejournal account. This is a post to see if it is now working. And since I don’t want a completely boring post to be out there, I thought I would offer a nice link. “Creativity Workshop: [...]

I had a big long post to start this off, and then I realized it was a rant about the traditional publishing industry. And that wasn’t supposed to be the point of it. So, I’m starting again. I’m a writer. An author. A STORYTELLER. I started to learn to read early because I was fascinated [...]

Bob Mayer Posted “Goal Setting For Writers” at Genreality yesterday. This year of writing for me has been all about goals. Making them, working towards them and achieving them. Here soon I’m going to take a first look at how I compare to the 5 Year Plan I posted a while back. See where I’m [...]

I’ve been writing ever since I could string letters together to form words, and it’s never stopped since. However, the big goal of some day making a living off my fiction writing has remained elusive. For a long time, the problem was the quality of writing. I know that isn’t the problem any longer but [...]