fiction with a dark edge
I’ve been struggling to find a writing recipe for getting through the intolerable middle of writing my novel, as I discussed in March. Now I think my inability to find a step-by-step guide out of the morass is a symptom of my personality that applies to more things than writing. I realized this a couple... Continue Reading →
Score: Title = 0, Me = 0. No winners here yet. For the last few weeks, I’ve been wrestling with the title of my soon-to-be-published novel. (Although wrestling may be too genteel a word. It’s more like street fighting.) Writers should spend a lot of time wrestling with this because a title, like a cover,... Continue Reading →
In 2014, I wrote about how I became a reluctant bride of Twitter. These days, I spend the bulk of my social media time on Twitter. Social media mavens like Karma Bennett (coming to the CWC-SF/Peninsula Branch in November for a workshop) may scold me for focusing on a single platform, but so be it.... Continue Reading →
Giving it away I recently began giving away Dance of Souls on Noisetrade, in the spirit of indie author experimentation. Also, as an experiment, I purchased a featured spot in the Noisetrade newsletter to promote it. (Sorry to disappoint, but those newsletters, like most in the publishing world, are curated not by editors but by... Continue Reading →
Fruits of the workers' labor I am honoring Labor Day in typical U.S. fashion. By working. Because I am self-employed, I can choose to work on any given day and take off some other day. This often results in my working longer hours than I would if I had a 9 to 5 job. Hard... Continue Reading →
AUDREY KALMAN 