Summertime has this way of infusing folks with a sense of carefree abandon. Warm weather beckons us away from our responsibilities in a way winter can never compete.
Frolicking in the sun, cooling out in the shade, wetting your whistle in the pool or ocean…you can’t do those things in winter. Best of all, since summer typically represents a break from school, summer’s a great time to rejuvanate the old noodle.
I know I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating…sometimes the business of writing gets in the way of writing.
As you roll your eyes muttering, thanks for the newsflash, think about this – how many things do you tend to, regularly, including activities revolved around promoting your book, that get in the way of your [...]
When did book-buying become a contact sport?
When did quietly, browsing the shelves of the bookstore, picking up a few books, skimming them, and walking around with them as you thought about what you’d just skimmed go out of style?
Books aren’t movies. As popular as book trailers are becoming, a trailer never truly captures the [...]
Finding the right group of people to launch a campaign can be tricky. There are personality issues involved, overlap of skills and thus bumping heads and of course, the ever-inevitable power struggle.
I’m not sure how I did it, but five months ago, I managed to to find the ideal group and together we formed [...]
I’m talking about the addiction many authors suffer. Some will admit to it. Others will not. But I believe all, at some point, have been lured by that she-devil, Amazon rankings. Go on admit it, you’ve looked at your rankings and rejoiced or sulked. I’ve heard that, on average, for [...]
I interrupt my regularly scheduled blog to invite you to the Sankofa Holidy Book Fair. It’s an online book fair, appealing to readers and writers who rather get their book browsing on at their own pace.
If you’re interested, check me out:
Thanks to Yasmin who provided the stat that 80% of African Americans read, last year, as opposed to a smaller percentage of White (73%)and Hispanic (53%) readers.
It’s not a race (or even about race), but it’s still good to see in black and white, pardon the pun, confirmation that we are reading.
“I can sleep when I die,” Young Jeezy ft. Akon, “Soul Survivor”
If you answered no to the above question, you may want to reconsider the publishing industry for something a little less grinding like…selling cars. Okay, that was a joke. Because any sales gig requires complete and total hustling. But many writers come [...]
I never thought I’d have anything in common with folk crazy enough to try cow testes and pig tongue. My stomach lurches at the thought of eating peas. But as my book enters month seven of its release, visions of NBC’s stomach-turning, daredevil competition, Fear Factor, plagues my mind. Fear Factor contestants learned early [...]
I’m not a Harry Potter fan.
Relax, Harry Potterites, I’m also not an HP hater. Mostly, I’m an admirer of J.K. Rowling’s legacy.
***One vague spoiler toward the end. Potter fans be warned.***
Many fans of the ten-year long series have begun mourning its loss – after all, in the end it’s not which characters [...]
