Expanding my horizons

Expanding my horizons

One might think that some who’s an editor, ghostwriter, and author would have experience with book clubs. In my case, one would be wrong. A high school friend of my younger son invited me to join a book club she was starting. I accepted. She scheduled a date,...
THE BOUNTY: GERLAUGH

THE BOUNTY: GERLAUGH

The second book in The Bounty series is available for purchase as of today. You can get your copy here: https://linktr.ee/Zero0Eight#collection-3b7f4fac-1f29-436c-994d-b365221fced8. Did you read the first book, The Bounty: Jones? This story follows bounty hunter Emmet...
Not knowing what you don’t know

Not knowing what you don’t know

I responded to a request for proposals a few months ago and, to my surprise, received a message from the potential client last week. I’d forgotten about my proposal, but he expressed interest in having me design his book. He explained that he’d written and...

What a shame

In my daily perusal of Facebook, I came across an author proudly announcing the debut of his just-published book. Intrigued, I went to the book’s buy page on Amazon and read its description. The well-written description intrigued me further—just the kind of...

Unintended consequences

Lately I read a couple of books that had truly laughable malapropisms. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a malapropism is “the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase especially : the use of a word sounding somewhat like...

Do your research

Every day I see posts from new writers asking basic questions about publishing, questions that range from “how to I write my book” to “where do I find a publisher?” There are no easy answers to any of their questions because all answers to...