Tag: self-publishing

• Up ‘n’ Changing …Everything? A Writer Rewrites

  

  I’m still not fully sure what in tarnation I was thinking, rewriting around 30,000 words in a week, and so very close to a critical e-book deadline. And yet, on January 3, when I reread my second novella in the Menagerie Mysteries series, The Moon Is Not My Name, I’d had a sinking feeling that…

  M L Clark

  January 9, 2021

  writing craft

  e-books, e-publishing, menagerie mysteries, self-publishing, writing craft, writing setbacks

• Please Be Honest vs. If You Loved It: On the Weird World of Reviews

  

  I’m an odd duck of a writer in many ways. I love receiving feedback once a story’s published — whether it’s good, middling, or negative — but I cannot stand the idle critiques of careless readers when a work is in progress. (I’m thankful, then, to have found one beta reader who understands my aims,…

  M L Clark

  December 13, 2020

  M L Clark, Writing Culture

  e-books, e-publishing, literary culture, menagerie mysteries, publishing industry, reviews, self-publishing

• What Is Self-Publishing “Good For”?

  

  What does medieval writing culture have in common with self-publishing in today’s digital world? Less than it could, and maybe should!

  M L Clark

  December 8, 2020

  Writing Culture

  e-publishing, literary culture, medieval writing, menagerie mysteries, self-publishing, writing aims