In light of the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple and several publishers for collusion in the setting of retail prices for ebooks (Dear Author has a great post on the latest revelations from the case), I thought it might be worth talking a little bit about why the major New York publishers were so worried about the rise of digital books…

This is going to be a very brief blog post. I’m trying very hard to get Hot Under the Collar ready to upload by mid-June. I’m behind my original hoped-for schedule by a couple of weeks, mainly due to my naughty vicar’s stubborn refusal to be naughty. (He will be naughty. I promise. Even if I have to rip his…

You can still download the handouts from my workshops using the links below: The Truth About Self Publishing with Lori Brighton and Kimberly Killion. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Synopsis with Stephanie Draven

There’s a discussion over at Dear Author about the practice of purchasing Amazon reviews. Apparently, there’s a service called Fiverr that offers to post 5-star reviews for books–at a price. In a word, ugh! But that’s not really what I want to talk about. In the thread, Courtney Milan pointed out that some authors are more assertive than others about…

This is a word to the wise–if you normally shop at Amazon and don’t shop around before buying, you may now be paying too much for certain self-published books. I discovered this morning that the price of my novella, THE LESSON PLAN, has reverted back to $2.99 (the list price) on Amazon rather than $1.96 (which is its price on…

I’m not sure how many folks who read my blog live in or near the San Diego area, but if you do or if you happen to be in San Diego this weekend, I want to remind you that I’ll be speaking at the San Diego Chapter RWA meeting on Saturday, March 17. The morning session will be a panel…

In case there’s any misunderstanding, let me state for the record that I fully support insurance coverage for contraception–although I’m not necessarily convinced all forms of birth control need to be available with co-pays. I pay a lot for my health insurance and pretty steep co-pays for a lot of my covered medications, so I don’t see that “covered” and…

People debate the wisdom of including excerpts of other books at the end of a book the reader has purchased. While some readers say they like them, others feel they are “advertisements” and don’t like having “paid” for a book that includes that extra content. It’s especially bothersome, it seems, when the excerpts “pad” the apparent length of the story…

I figured I should probably write out this story, not only because it will save me the trouble of explaining to multiple people who’ve followed the saga on Twitter and Facebook, but in tiny increments, exactly what happened, but also because it might help someone else out there who has a similar type of event. As you know if you…