by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
Many authors I meet are in what I call practice mode. What does practice mode look like? It can be the writer who is endlessly polishing his writing skills, but hasn’t completed a draft. Or the author who is plotting an intricate series, but hasn’t written...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
Have you ever experienced the sting of someone expressing they didn’t like what you wrote? Unless you’ve been writing in a cave and refusing to let anyone look at your stories (or only giving it to people who will mouth platitudes and “adore”...
by Cathy Yardley | Business, Craft, Writing Life
“I would never put out anything less than my best!” I’ve been reading this a lot lately, in blog posts, in comments, on social media. Usually, it’s referring to self-publishing ( “I would never publish anything less than my best!”)...
by Cathy Yardley | Business, Writing Life
Last time, we talked about how a publishing trend cycle works, generally speaking. Given that snapshot, you might ask yourself: why would anyone in their right mind try to chase the trend? There are a number of reasons people chase a trend cycle. For some authors who...
by Cathy Yardley | Business, Writing Life
Recently, literary fiction author Ted Heller wrote an article for Salon called “The future is no fun: Self-publishing is the worst.” In it, he describes his misadventures in self-publishing his latest novel, specifically the difficulty he’s had...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
Deep in deadline hell, peeps. For me, this usually means a scattered attention span, a lot of mumbling under my breath — and a hair trigger around things that seem trivial, almost stupid. So yesterday, I tripped on one of these triggers. Thankfully, after a few...
