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I Believe in Heroes
A great man said people watched movies because they believed in heroes. Decades ago when that same man lit up the screen with his signature walk and no-nonsense talk, he was one to me and many like me....
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We Grow Great Libraries in Canada
Last year I had read somewhere that in the United Kingdom, public libraries were taking a beating. With access to the Internet and ebooks, apparently the number of people using libraries was down. The...
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All Aboard for Word on the Street
I had a busy yesterday. It started early. Shower, eat, kids fed, animals fed and watered, flooding from heavy overnight rain dealt with and I was out the door, headed for downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia....
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A Library for the Future of the World
In my endeavour to be self-sufficient, I spend a little time each week either reading books, magazine articles or blogs to help me to learn the basics of what is needed to sustain myself if something...
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Snaps from Today’s Craft Show
The Christmas Festival of Crafts Show in Middle Musquodoboit was very busy today. It was shoulder to shoulder walking between the displays. Dozens and dozens of people stopped at our stand, looked at...
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Things I Learned at a Craft Show
Last weekend Jayne Peters, Mindy George and I attended the Christmas Festival of Crafts at Middle Musquodoboit. This was my first official book-selling event, and the first craft show in which I was a...
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Craft Show Lesson Almost Forgotten
It came to me this morning. All of a sudden like. It was something I wanted to remember, something I needed to remember because it was equally important to me as to the few customers who talked about...
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My Library of Books for Writing Fantasy
A short time ago, Ernesto San Giacomo posted his 2015 Reading List. In the list was Writing About Magic by Rayne Hall. I commented, saying I had several books about magic, herbs and stones to help me...
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Book and Soap Sale Event
Today (Saturday March 14) I will be selling books at the Crafter’s Train Vendors Market taking place at Sackville Lions Club, 101 Old Beaverbank Rd, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. I will have for sale...
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Finding Great Book Cover Ideas
I have designed all the covers for my books. For me, it’s the treat of the whole publishing process. I love playing with images, text and light to find something that attracts my eye. Although many...
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Pricing Books at CreateSpace
Taking a closer look at printing prices at CreateSpace, I discovered something very interesting: A book measuring 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches is the same price as a book measuring 6 inches by 9 inches....
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The Cost of Hiring a Traditional Publisher
Have you ever had one of those Ah-ha! moments? Those times in your life when you believed one thing only to find out the opposite was true? Everyone has them. Some probably have them more than others....
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Independent Book Stores
A campaign has been running in Nova Scotia for the past several years. It’s called Buy Local. I believe it started to encourage people to buy locally-produced food, however, it quickly spread to other...
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Treat eBooks like Websites and Update them Regularly
Each January, I take a few weeks and update my eBooks – all of them. This doesn’t mean I edit the stories. It means I update the file with new information and refresh what might have gone stale in the...
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Kindle Spell Check and Preview Your Book While in the Publishing Stage
Last week—while discussing Amazon’s warning about spelling mistakes and bad formatting for eBooks published on their site—I realised not everyone is completing all the steps necessary to upload and...
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Readers, help us solve a few mysteries about your reading habits.
Recently, I confessed to not reading prologues. I’m not sure when I stopped reading them, but I believe it was in my late teens. Why? From what I can remember, I thought they were boring and...
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Register Now: Online Indie Author Fringe Event April 15th
The first online Indie Author Fringe Event of 2016 kicks off at 10:00 am on Friday April 15th. This is London, England time, so in Nova Scotia, that’s 6:00 am (fours in the difference). There’s an...
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Two Vital Questions to Ask Yourself About Writing
We are all looking for our path to success, but our paths are drastically different. We all don’t get to success the same way, and we don’t all identify success in the same manner. In my years of...
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Don’t Muddy Your Brand
My teen-aged son loves to attend truck pulls at exhibitions. He only has his beginners, but he’s itching to get behind the wheel and has created elaborate schemes that would see him get there before he...
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Filter Words – Who Knew? Not Me
A week ago, I stumbled onto a YouTube video discussing filter words. Never hearing this term before, I watched, listened and learned…and discovered I was guilty of using filter words. What are Filter...
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