tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83159456918740539792024-02-19T04:58:25.926-05:00The Henderson FilesIndie Publishing and BeyondPatty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-34675202137816147232022-02-08T16:56:00.002-05:002022-02-08T17:02:23.934-05:00<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-9UX6DJBpJhypunDatE2b3uNP-6TtyCgglIe3na8_U5gbPEZamnuuBWjSMRMUOIqjb6PMKoHjPblVpk9oB8INgFIQNw3BhdA47pZYIRwORHMFPokUWTsJPgOe3Yn7XTs-X1VaDv_Zmrbk1hQFtVoSU4KIObo5C5clSDkkRJyvnI8DssnyihCRNgu71Q=s346" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="247" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-9UX6DJBpJhypunDatE2b3uNP-6TtyCgglIe3na8_U5gbPEZamnuuBWjSMRMUOIqjb6PMKoHjPblVpk9oB8INgFIQNw3BhdA47pZYIRwORHMFPokUWTsJPgOe3Yn7XTs-X1VaDv_Zmrbk1hQFtVoSU4KIObo5C5clSDkkRJyvnI8DssnyihCRNgu71Q=s320" width="228" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Cupid Hunting</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">by</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Patty G. Henderson</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Copyrighted this edition February, 2022</span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I wait. Patiently. A shadow within the twilight. A dead
woman. A victim of suicide, I remain shackled to this world, forever to re-live
the mistakes I made while alive.</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I shot myself because I loved Marcella. I placed the cold,
grey steel of a 9 mm automatic into my mouth and pulled the trigger. I don't
remember much after that.</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It doesn't matter now that she laughed when I spilled my
heart out to her. It doesn't matter that she lied and then flaunted the gifts I
gave her while having an affair with my best friend. No, the only thing that
matters now is that I find </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the
reason why I am one of the walking dead and put an end to its unchecked attack
on the human race. I have to stop the fiend that creeps into lives with promises
of unbridled lust and undying love. Its driven poets insane and countless
others like myself to death. Cupid has to be stopped.</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And to that end, I crouch here; a part of the darkness you
can't see and wait for it. Two lovers sit across from me on the park bench,
oblivious to everything except their lustful needs. I expect my prey to arrive
soon. I know it's going to come because it's Valentine's day. A day for fools.</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I hear the wings first. A light flutter in the night air. A
soft, foggy image forms and hovers over the couple on the bench. Ironic that
only the dead can see the nasty little beastie. The cherub-faced demon smiles
and pulls out an arrow from the tiny quiver on its back. I never understood how
those small wings could support that obese little body.</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I have to stop it now. If it shoots the arrow and it strikes
those poor, unsuspecting fools sucking face, they will be lost to the lethal
poison that the little demon peddles as love.</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I know I have to make my move now. Grabbing the same gun that
took my life, I take careful aim and fire. Parts of Cupid </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">splatter
into the air and the little gargoyle falls with a heavy thud. One more hellish
cherub down, how many more to go? </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I know that those who are among the living are not gifted
with the sight to see into the other worlds around them, but something must
have spooked those two on the bench. The woman jumped out of the embrace and
looked around like a frightened rabbit. He tightened his grip on her, trying to
calm her down. Good thing they couldn't see the bloody little blob lying behind
them. </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I knew they would be okay now. I have to reload the gun and
move on. The night is still young. Valentine's Day isn’t over yet. </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the end</span></b></span></p>
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This is one bandwagon all authors are going to want to climb on. The big news is that audio books have made more gains among readers/listeners in 2017, while eBook sales have continued to decline.<br />
After doing the research, the numbers are solid. Audio books gained a roughly 28% increase, while eBooks saw a nearly 20% drop.<br />
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That matters, folks. It matters to authors who are trying to eek out some extra pocket change for food or living expenses or maybe taking a long weekend excursion. It matters to authors who are trying to get exposure in as many markets as they can to reach readers. And it matters to your readers, if you're an author, to make your books more easily available to all segments of society, including some who may have difficulty holding on to an eReader or actual book, someone who is blind, someone who has a religious regime of exercise and needs a book to listen to while running through the park, or someone who is addicted to books but can't read and drive to work at the same time and would love to listen to a book. Well, you get the picture. As an author who writes lesbian fiction, it's a very small niche. An edge in a limited readership is something well worth taking advantage of. It's a scramble trying to grab as many readers as possible.<br />
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Authors, you need your book, all your books, in audio book format. And this is where indies (and I use the word here to indicate authors choosing to publish their own works via Amazon or Lulu, etc.) shine over contracted authors. It's literally FREE...yes...FREE...to create a professional audio book. No, I don't mean go out and buy recording equipment and a soundproof room for yourself. It's called Audible. Via their audio book production site, ACX, you can become a big time audio book producer. You get to audition voice actors (my own choice of words for "narrator") and method of paying them. Yes, they want to get paid too. But you don't have to pay them hard cold cash out of your bank account. Find a voice actor that will accept the "Royalty" plan. That means once the audio book is listed and for sale on Audible and Amazon, your voice actor and you split the royalties earned on the audio book sales. Simple. BTW, some voice actors will only work for pay upfront, and they list their going rate per hour's work. My personal finances don't allow for such spending, so for all my lesbian Gothic Historical Romances currently available in audio (see below), I have always found the most amazing voice actors willing to work with the Royalty plan.<br />
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Another reward you get by jumping on the audio book bandwagon is the chance to work with some amazing and accomplished voice actors in the industry. Many are award winning in their fields. I had an extraordinary opportunity to work with one such woman, <a href="http://www.cathyconneff.com/">Cathy Conneff</a>. SHADOWS OF THE HEART is my latest Gothic Historical Romance. It's my only book set in England during the 1820s. </div>
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Setting out to find an actress able to meet the British language requirements, plus a bit of French accent for another important character in the book, I was pleasantly surprised that Cathy Conneff had found me and my book, and already put in an audition. That audition won me over immediately. I knew she could bring my book to life.<br />
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Not only did she do that, but she made my book better. Yes, that's
right. A professional voice actor can not only bring your book alive,
but make it better. With Cathy Conneff, it wasn't just reading the
characters on the page, she became the characters. She immersed herself
in the settings, the atmosphere. She created a whole new experience. She
was so good, I recommend all who've read SHADOWS OF THE HEART, please
take a listen to the audio book. You will come away with a whole new
experience of the story. She is that good.<br />
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If not for the audio book and Cathy's amazing reading, SHADOWS OF THE HEART, would be missing a whole new audience.<br />
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I also had the opportunity to work with another big name in audio narration. <a href="http://karenroserichter.com/">Karen Rose Richter</a> has won numerous accolades in the voice acting field, and she narrated two of my Gothic Historical Romances, THE SECRET OF LIGHTHOUSE POINTE and CASTLE OF DARK SHADOWS. Again, in the hands of a professional, immersive voice actor, a book takes on a whole new life. Finding the right voice actor is a fun and exhilarating experience, and listening to someone else read and breathe life into your words is something all authors should not deprive themselves of. </div>
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With sales of eReaders limping along, and the downward predictions for eBook sales, audio books appear to be taking the lead. As an indie author, I have seen more sales and generated more income from my audio book sales than eBook sales. I never thought I would see this happen. I'm currently creating more income from audio book sales. That may change. None of us have crystal balls (well some of us may, but they aren't sharing). The bottom line is that authors who are not opting to have their books produced into audio books are missing a big sales generator and an increasingly important tool in the author's tool kit. </div>
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Audible and ACX are both connected to Amazon, but your audio books are also listed in iTunes. That's a winning combination. So go ahead and jump on the audio book bandwagon. It's picking up steam.</div>
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Please check out my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Patty-G.-Henderson/e/B001JP4LFK">Amazon Author</a> page. You'll find links to all my books, audio books and lots visual media such as book trailers, to enjoy.</div>
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-13161497132548146042016-12-15T14:38:00.003-05:002016-12-15T16:19:37.349-05:00When Being Too Creative is a CrutchI'm a writer. I'm an artist. I write books. I create book covers for myself and for others as a freelance business. I also draw portraits in pencil as a hobby and sometimes, for commissions. A plentiful cornucopia of artistic endeavors. And that might be the problem.<br />
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Too much and you might choke one or more of those endeavors. Scattering one's energy and talents can leave you drained, with little time to devote to one entirely. And sometimes, if you're like me, you need to remain focused on one thing in order to fulfill it to the best of your ability. Giving of yourself in piecemeal affects the quality of one and all, I feel.<br />
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I've always been both an artist and a writer. I began my love affair with both at about the same time. One led to the other. They came wedded to each other. I dabbled with my drawings, but suddenly realized how much more in love I was with words. I wrote short stories and dark poems that got published in fanzines, or better described as magazines and publications that were privately, or fan produced, labors of love. Some paid me minuscule amounts, whole others were all for glory and exposure and yes, for fun. Pure fun. This was the early 70s, mind you. I wonder if many today even know what a fanzine was back then. They were the lifeblood of writers just starting out. And all of them were print. There was no digital revolution in 1970. Artwork was done by hand. Magazines and fanzines were printed on paper, some of them printed in mimeograph paper. Remember that? Well, maybe not many of you do. Google it.<br />
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As a writer, I have won multiple awards for my books. I had the glitter of stars in my eyes. I dreamt of multi figured writing contracts offered by the big New York publishers, fans lining up for my books and fame and glory. Ha. That never happened. My dream never happened. Every author dreams of signing a big contract with a big publisher and landing a real job as a writer. I settled for being self published, a very select reader base, and pennies as income for my books on monthly basis from Amazon. At least my fall from the top didn't hurt much because I never made it very far to fall from. But the failing of my dream still nags at me, making my discontent with my writing almost a form of hating the idea of writing or publishing. It was easy to turn my back on it and concentrate on my artwork instead. Yes, I now have a freelance business creating eye-catching covers for other authors. And I also draw portraits of my favorite television or movie celebrity and attend conventions to meet the stars and have them autograph my drawings. It's a wonderful hobby. But both my book covers and my drawings have taken much of my creative energies. It has left no room for writing. And writing has never wanted to go quietly into the dark. It still throws punches at me, demanding to feed it.<br />
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So, this is where I stand. I have two current WIPs (if one could call them much progress, really not much) that are punching harder at me to return to them. To finish the tales wanting to be told. I have new and exciting genres to explore, as well as some of my old favorites. Something must suffer. I don't work well with my attentions scattered so far between my creative endeavors. Maybe it's that fact that as I age, I can no longer accomplish so much. It could be that I truly do feel the reach of my own mortality getting shorter and shorter, and fear I may not be able to accomplish everything I wish I could.<br />
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Well, the conundrum is of course, exacerbated by the dire straights of society around me as well. When one is struggling financially, and with health concerns, it certainly does not aid the serenity of mind, the feeling of hope, we all need to feed the Muse. Feeling secure from being out in the streets or sick and dying is a human need.<br />
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If you've read this far, I do hope you won't feel cheated by my very simple conclusion. Follow the heart. And as in romance, giving your heart to more than one leads to trouble and heartache. Concentrating on where my heart leads is where I'll be in 2017 and beyond. Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-13781186682294727902014-05-22T23:29:00.000-04:002014-05-23T09:39:37.258-04:00THE WRITING PROCESS BLOG TOUR....I've Been Tagged!<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Caren J. Werlinger, author extraordinaire of some of the best lesbian literary works in current lesfic, has tagged me, yours truly, to be part of the Writing Process Blog Tour challenge that's swarming Facebook and elsewhere like a questionable virus....LOL. In a good way. Every author loves to talk about new books, old books, writing, etc. Thank you, Caren, for your books and your stories, and for tagging me. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had turned my back on this blog, The Henderson Files. But by being part of the Writing Process Blog Tour, it has made me look back and possibly see the light that I might have unintentionally left burning in my blog. It's been drawing me back. So, I'm happy to be back and perhaps find the spark to do a blog a week....or a month....or whenever. But at least I know I have it whenever I think I have something I might want to share. And I also love to feature other indie authors here at The Henderson Files. Hey.....I'm back. So, thanks Caren. Please check out <a href="http://cjwerlinger.wordpress.com/">Caren's</a> blog once you're done here to check out her take on the Writing Process Blog Tour Questions.....</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b>I've been working on a new Gothic Historical Romance titled WHERE EVIL DWELLS. This time, the setting is 1820 England, and tells the story of Annalee Stewart, a young woman, left penniless and destitute by her father who lost the family fortune to his gambling debts and who dies leaving nothing to his daughter. She is taken in by her godmother but when she passes away, Annalee is shipped away to be companion to a young, infirm young noblewoman, the Lady Lenore Blackstone, wife to Lord Blackstone, heir to the earldom and Master of the foreboding Castle Blackstone, that sits atop a high point in the Devon moors. But Annalee didn't count on falling in love with the woman she was to serve or to be the object of desire of another noblewoman, Victoria Blackstone, sister to Lord Blackstone! But there is evil afoot in Blackstone Castle and death and betrayal around every castle corridor turn! What a triangle of love and web of intrigue and suspense that creates, right? The stuff of Gothics. LOL. This Gothic Romance is more romance than my previous three others and will hopefully be in publication later this year, 2014. Stay tuned. I hope to have a cover reveal in a month or so.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b>Well, there really is no one else writing strictly Gothic Historical Romances in lesfic right now. Author Helen Dunn does have several. I guess that's why some affectionately refer to me as Queen of the Gothics in lesbian fiction. LOL. Most of the lesbian historical romances are either swashbuckling, fantasy or just simple historical romances. The Gothic Romances I write are homages to the Gothic Romances of the 1960s and 1970s which were published as cheap paperbacks and available at any drugstore or grocery store. But those were always heterosexual tales for the mainstream reader where the plucky heroine always meets and is swept away by the dark, brooding or mysterious and handsome guy after suffering through a myriad of hair-raising and life-threatening ordeals in a dark castle or mansion.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my Gothics, the girl always gets swept the away by the girl! LOL. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b>I got my start writing short horror stories back in the late 60s and early 70s. Not lesbian fiction. LOL. My first full length lesbian novel was SO DEAD, MY LOVE, a vampire romance, and then I wrote the Brenda Strange Paranormal Mysteries of which there are four, THE BURNING OF HER SIN, TANGLED AND DARK, THE MISSING PAGE, and XIMORA, in that order. Those were mysteries mixed with the supernatural. Since then, I've written three Gothic Historical Romances, THE SECRET OF LIGHTHOUSE POINTE, CASTLE OF DARK SHADOWS, and PASSION FOR VENGEANCE. I'm currently working on a new Gothic, WHERE EVIL DWELLS. As you can tell from my body of work, I enjoy dark and supernatural fiction. I've always loved the ghost stories and tales of dark imaginings since I was a child. I suppose that has translated to what I enjoy now. While my Gothics are romances with mystery and suspense, they are not supernatural. No ghosts and no monsters. I write what I like and what I want to read. Basically, I write what thrills me and entertains me and I hope that I write well enough and spin a tale good enough to keep readers as entertained reading them as I enjoy writing them. I write and read for entertainment.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My physical writing process is rather exhausting for most, especially since we live in the era of electronic everything and tablets that you can pop into your pocket and can create "on-the-go." But no, I suppose I'm stuck in the past I love to write about. I write out my book on yellow notebook pads and then transfer everything onto the computer. I know, double the work and double the time, but I cannot write any other way. I cannot create with the clitter clatter of the keyboard as my muse. I much prefer the flow of ink onto paper. The quietness of it.....the organic idea of it all. I've even taken the challenge of writing much like the periods in history I write about. I like to turn down most of my lights and use candles throughout my apartment. I don't, of course, use ink and quill, just a ballpoint or roller point pen.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm also not too keen on outlines. I don't keep or do an outline. All that stuff is in my head. When I start, I already pretty much know what will happen and how it will end. I don't, of course, have an unbreakable plot. I make plot changes if something else seems better or different than what I began with. So my writing process is very organic, just like my way of writing it. Pacing is my writing god. Pacing, pacing, pacing. It is the single most important thing I focus on. Characters can play and plot lines and sub-plots can change, but pacing remains the most important focus for my books. Without proper pacing, a book with great characters, dynamic plot and evocative settings will still fall flat with disastrous pacing. Pacing.</span></span></span><br />
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-11755598983043313232013-08-12T09:23:00.001-04:002014-05-21T16:38:48.612-04:00END GAME<span style="color: lime;">UPDATE: I'll be opening up this blog to my own thoughts or topics on an irregular schedule. I'll still try and feature some interesting Indie authors.</span><br />
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Thank you to all the authors who Guested here and to readers and followers. This blog has outlived its usefulness.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pattyghenderson.com/">www.pattyghenderson.com</a>Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-59937594832723806052013-07-26T13:06:00.001-04:002020-09-30T01:11:05.024-04:00GUEST AUTHOR BLOG: Juli D. Revezzo<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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year into self-publishing my work and what a year it has been! I have, in that
time, also seen a novel I submitted to a small publisher, prior to, published
by the small publisher, The Wild Rose Press. A long time ago, I started writing what was called Fantasy.
Through the years that hasn’t changed. The strange thing about it is, those in
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Artist’s Inheritance </a><span style="font-weight: normal;">In my current series,<i>
The Antique Magic</i> series, I write about ancestral curses, magic and
witches. To me, it’s all pagan/supernatural elements—witches, gods, soldi</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ers in
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with a dash of Morgan le Fay, and things like that. </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Artists-Inheritance-Antique-Magic-ebook/dp/B008XL82IU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1345040600&sr=1-1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">Witches/supernatur</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">al equal
fantasy to me. Always have, always will. But it seems like everyone you talk to
calls my </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">novel, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">something different!
There’s no agreement among anyone, whatsoever of what the book i</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">s. In a way,
that’s kinda cool and the whole lure of self publishing helping those that
don’t fit into the Big Six’s teeny tiny little boxes. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> On the other hand,
it’s a Pain in the A** because of Amazon, who only recently decided to include
Urban Fantasy in their KDP categories (a genre that’s been around since </span>Buffy
the Vampire Slayer<span style="font-weight: normal;"> ended).</span><br />
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Now,
as I mentioned, I have a new book out from a traditional publisher—<b>Passion’s
Sacred Dance.</b> It released Friday (*squee!*).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahem, Between <b>Passion’s Sacred Dance</b>
and <b>The Artist’s Inheritance</b>, the elements included are virtually
identical: myths, gods, warriors/soldiers and Druids in a modern day town—and
the heroine’s long-dead ancestors make an appearance. Yet, by light of the fact
that I lean heavily on the romance element in <b>Passion’s Sacred Dance</b>,
even if I were to self-publish it, I wouldn’t think twice about the label
Fantasy with a secondary category of Romance (are we seeing the overall theme
of my writing here: Fantasy). To my publisher however, the romance is high
importance, so I’ve no doubts where they’ll list it. To me, however, it’s all
about the fantasy (one could even argue that the required Happily-ever-after of
romance is a fantasy but that’s a subject for another time).</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Genres are becoming very
blended these days anyway (steampunk, anyone?), I’m not sure they’re
necessarily reliable anymore. Luckily, there are some who don’t care about
this, but care more for a good story, well told. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Will I self-publish again?
Absolutely! Will I submit my next romance heavy fantasy to a publisher? You
bet! I am a writer. Writing is what I do, and worry about the genre later.
Hopefully the readers will be pleased. I know I am. Would you like to know a
bit about my new romantic fantasy? Okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Battling mounting debt, Stacy Macken is determined
not to lose her historic art gallery. When Aaron Fielding appears and offers to
help, she fights to keep the attraction sizzling between them from clouding her
judgment. He may be her savior in disguise--but can she trust him?<br />
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Aaron intrigues her with tales of the Tuatha dé Danann, sworn warriors who
protect humanity from the monsters seeking their destruction. If Aaron can
prove what he claims, she would give up anything to help--even the gallery he
claims is sacred ground. But with her property set to stage the next epic
battle, she needs answers. An old family diary will confirm the ancient legend
is true, if only they can find it in time.</span></div>
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If the battle is lost, the enemy will take control of Earth for the next five
hundred years. Stacy and Aaron's budding love might only complicate things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s available now at Amazon and coming soon to other
retailers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">For more on these and other
books visit Juli at: <a href="http://julidrevezzo.com/">http://julidrevezzo.com/</a></span></div>
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How Lesbian is Lesbian Enough?</div>
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The topic of what it is exactly that makes a “lesbian novel”
has been debated ad nauseum in many circles. Is it only those books written by
lesbians, even if there are no lesbian characters? Is it only those novels
whose main characters are lesbian? Or is it those whose plot and storyline
would appeal to lesbians? The only consensus seems to be that there is no
consensus. Maybe lesbian literature is more fluid and diaphanous than any of
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Lynne Pierce recently raised the question of what it is we
want lesbian literature to become. She likened the current state of lesbian
fiction as being in its adolescence, having begun with the pulp novels of the
70s and 80s. Most of those books were not brilliantly written or produced, but
they were all we had, and we gobbled them up. Now, with more small lesbian
presses and the advent of independent publishing, we are in the midst of a
flood of lesbian fiction, much of it romances. Not all of it is good, maybe
even most of it. But it seems to tickle the taste buds of many readers, and as
with typical adolescents, there seems to be a huge preoccupation with sex. </div>
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Like most humans (certainly not all), the literature will hopefully
mature past this preoccupation to embrace the totality of what it is that makes
us lesbian. I love an occasional romance, but sometimes I want something that
reflects other aspects of my life. It is certainly much more than the gender of
the person with whom I make love, though for many straight people, the
definition of “lesbian” probably begins and ends right there.</div>
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For me, my being a lesbian influences everything I am – how
I perceive and interact with other people, how I look at advertising, how I
interpret news events, how I arrange my legal and financial affairs to protect
my beloved, how I place myself within society. Absolutely everything about me
is colored by the fact that I am a lesbian, and sex is only a very small part
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That wholeness, that totality is what I want my books to
bring to life. I’m no longer an adolescent, preoccupied with thoughts of sex
(well, there are moments…). I am much more than that, and so are my
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their decisions and
interactions, their successes and foibles are all influenced by the fact that
they are lesbian, even when there is no sex involved. Does that make my books and
others like them “unlesbian”? </div>
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Apparently, at least one reader thinks so. In a recent
review of my novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miserere</i>, a
reviewer stated, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“While this is an
interesting read, those who may be expecting a lesbian romance may be
disappointed. This is not really a lesbian novel per se -- as the main protagonist
is a young girl of about 11 years of age, and the two lesbian characters in the
novel have no intimate moments.”</i> </div>
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First of all, this book was never marketed as a romance, but
more intriguing to me was this reviewer’s opinion that if the book included no
intimate scenes, then it couldn’t, by her definition, be lesbian. Nevermind
that every critical decision made by one of the main characters is because she
has fallen in love with another young woman (and no, she doesn’t identify
herself as a lesbian – it was the 1860s), or that the young girl becomes the
book’s real hero precisely because she already knows, in her heart, what it is
that makes her different.</div>
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By this reader’s rationale, any woman who is not in a
relationship, not sleeping with another woman, would not be lesbian, either. No
sex = no lesbian. I think there are many in our community who would argue that
that makes no sense in our lives, so why should it apply to our books?</div>
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To me, some of the most enduring and powerful romances in movies
and literature have been the ones that don’t involve people thrashing around
like eels. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleepless in Seattle</i> jumps
to mind as one of my favorites, with the only physical contact between Meg Ryan
and Tom Hanks being the holding of hands at the end of the movie (and I don’t
remember the word “heterosexual” being uttered even one time). Jane Austen
proved that a slow burn and prolonged attraction without our actually
witnessing any sex between the characters has staying power – over two hundred
years’ worth. Any of us should be so lucky as to have our books still being
read two centuries from now!</div>
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I know, “it is a truth universally acknowledged” that sex
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help but think, though, that
much of the current crop of lesbian romances will someday be looked back upon
much as we now look at the novels from the 70s. My hope for our literature is
that the novels that will stand the test of time will be those that transcend
that very limiting definition of who we are and show us in our totality, as
complex, complete human beings living our lives, even if the bedroom door is
politely closed in our faces.<br />
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symbolism of the holiday, but I early on recognized the value of a dollar. Why?
Because I had a sweet tooth. I knew the most amount of candy that could be had
for a penny, a nickel, a dime. A silver dollar was instantaneous millionaire to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">What? Hmmm. I walked the sidewalk in front of our
house. I clearly recall saying, "It's Independence Day and I'm
independent.” No really, I said that! I was pre-precocious. And somehow, I knew
what it meant. It meant: my silver dollar, my candy. Who didn't understand
that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But I paced: Should I sneak down to the store, real
quick like, to get the candy I dearly wanted? Or not? Finally I went to my dad
and explained my dilemma. I wanted to save, but I wanted just a couple pieces
of candy. So, why not give me a quarter for the candy, and I'll save the silver
dollar? It was win/win as far as I could see. He objected to the concept and
the quarter. </span></div>
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her somewhere in the kitchen. Finally I hovered around the man who gave it to
me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">"Well," I said shyly, "I'd prefer to
save it for a rainy day, or if someone needs to borrow it, sometime down the
road, but then I wouldn't be able to get 15 cents worth of candy, which I'd
like to have to celebrate my independence." I had dropped the notion of
asking for a quarter, figuring, rightly, that it was going against the grain of
the prevailing market conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">He looked at me. "No freaking way did you just
say that!" he exclaimed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It's true I didn't say that, and he didn't say <i>that</i>
either. But I did say something very cute and ingenuous, because he handed me a
dime and a nickel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Now I had it all: Money for candy <i>and</i>
savings. This time I skipped, then ran, down to the corner for the candy. I
proudly showed the man at the counter my silver dollar, bought a dime's worth
of candy and had a nickel to spare. Now, you might want to sit down for the
next part because the story gets...well, the "ewww" factor goes up a
bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The next day, the landlord came around to visit my
parents. He was on his way to the stockyards. I didn't know what they were, but
I heard "animals" and wanted to go. I don't know what possessed my
mother to let me go with him, and I have even less insight into why she put me
in a dress. Have you ever been to the stockyards? This was cows and pigs. All
fenced in. Malodorous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The man lifted me up so I could see into the pens.
I stood on one of the fence railings, and he kept his arm around me to make
sure I didn't fall in. I had my one nickel in the pocket of the dress, and for
some reason, I took it out and held it in my fist. I cannot say with any
certain memory what happened next—not much but enough to frighten me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The man's arm slipped down my body and his hand now
rested on my upper thigh, and he began to rub my leg. Frightened but not really
sure why, I suppose, I started gnawing on my my closed fist, and somehow, I
swallowed the nickel. I suddenly began to cough and spit and cry and throw a
terrible fit. A crowd of other men formed, drawn by my bleating and weeping.
Unnerved, (by the "witnesses" no doubt) he hoisted me up off that
fence, took me to his truck and drove me right home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">He told my mom that I had swallowed a coin and
maybe she should take me to the doctor. I must have looked frightened because I
saw something begin to dawn on my mother's face. She said goodbye to him and
called the doctor who told her how to get that nickel back. To watch for it. To
not stop watching for it until she saw that it had exited my body. I could tell
she did not look forward to the ordeal, but she had something bigger on her
mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">She sat me at the table and asked me about the day.
We got around to talking about Mr. Icky, and she asked me if he was nice to me.
I didn't answer at first. Finally I simply said, "I don't like him."
Somehow she knew. She gave that Irish mother all-knowing nod, and left me at
the table with milk and cookies while she called my father. I never saw the
creepy man again, and we moved from that house not long after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Oh and I did get my nicely cleaned nickel back. And
my mother never took her eyes off me and my sisters from that day on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">So,
being independent has given me tremendous happiness and a few close calls. And
I find as I pursue the life of a published writer, a self-published or “Indie”
writer, the same sense of survival, passion for a good story, and a basic sense
of good and evil, and right and wrong, are represented by the heroes and
heroines in my own and other writer's books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">My favorite characters are people, especially
women, who venture into uncharted territories with little more than their own
optimism and a will to be who they authentically are. I'm still thrilled to be
able to recreate the joy, the spirit and the challenge of trying to balance all
that being an Indie means. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">I like that it take a village to put it all
together, but it's a village with inhabitants of my choosing. The village might
change a bit from book to book, but the theme is the same: I will pay you to
give me your best edit, your best cover, your ISBN number, your formatting
skills, and all the rest of it. And I will pay for the review copies, eBook or
print, the advertising, the promotional giveaways, the contest fees, the
conference fees, the membership fees, and the contributions to other writers,
some I know, some I don't. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Throughout the entire process, I have to tell you:
I am excited, I'm thrilled to be able to do it, and a whole lot of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love and dedication to a good tale well told
goes into the process, not just from me but from all members of my village. And
I belong to other writers' villages, usually as a Beta reader, certainly as a
reviewer, always as a cheerleader, an encourager and a good-natured competitor
for the next reader! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">And when it's all done and my book goes live, I,
still an independent and an Indie, come out with the same familiar $1.15 for
every book that sells—a dollar for savings, a dime for candy, a nickel for
emergencies! No, it's not a lot of money, is it? But I love it. Oh, okay, sure,
times about five hundred thousand would be nice! LOL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">I'm thrilled to premiere the cover for my latest
offering, <u>A Delicate Refusal</u>, which will be on Amazon, Barnes &
Noble and all the usual places over the holiday weekend. The print version will
be available within a couple weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">And here's a small taste of <u>A Delicate Refusal</u>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">England, 1914. Two friends, brought together by circumstance and a
mutual attraction that threatens to be torn apart by fears, family secrets and
mysterious afflictions, face an even bigger adversary in the face and form of a
world war. </b>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As World War I
begins, England tries to maintain its “splendid isolation” policy, but the
British people are quietly enduring their own misgivings, facing their own
fears and wondering how long they can bear witness to carnage without a
response.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Into this milieu of
intrigue and uncertainty, two women begin a most unusual love affair. Theirs is
a love sustained by hope and encouraged by letters, but threatened by their own
private fears and the worldwide anxieties covering the earth like a dark
shroud. As all of Europe drives itself to the brink of destruction, can an
uncommon love survive the concussive blasts of doubt and deceit, of
estrangement and misunderstanding? Who lives to love? Who lurks in the
background watching the affair from the distance of déjà vu? And who presents
“a delicate refusal” to become a tragic hero?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It's fitting that I do the world premiere of my
cover on the blog belonging to my cover artist—the Gothic Queen herself, Patty
G. Henderson. Thank you Patty—for my cover, for inviting me here and for our
friendship.</span></div>
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Visit my web site:<a href="http://www.ttthomas.com/"> www.ttthomas.com</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">Hi, everyone! I’m glad to be at The
Henderson Files today. Thank you, Patty.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">Reality TV. Dating on TV. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bachelor. The Bachelorette. </i>These
shows are so-called guilty pleasures for many people, but not for me. I proudly
own up to my “guilty” pleasures and to my bubblegum TV. After I posted about a
certain “The Bachelor” contestant a few years ago on Facebook, one of my
college friends expressed astonishment that I would watch such trash. I was too
smart for that, he said. I grinned and shrugged. “I love the show,” I replied.
“What can I say?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">Heck, I love these shows so much that
I am Facebook friends with quite a few <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bachelor
</i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bachelorette </i>alumni. Not that
they have the faintest idea who I am.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">All this to say…the idea of writing a
book about a reality TV</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">dating show should have occurred to me sooner, much
sooner. Better later than never, though—hence the birth of my latest novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Lesbian-ebook/dp/B00DE1WYHY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371865845&sr=8-1&keywords=REALITY+LESBIAN">Reality Lesbian</a>.</i> It’s reality-TV dating,
lesbian style. It came out last Friday and has been really popular so far. In a
nutshell, it’s about Lucy Marshall, a straight woman who goes on a lesbian
dating show for a vacation and job connections. Not really her idea. Her gay
best friend, Henry, signed her up for the show and pushed her into going. But,
hey, she does go, and she pretends to be gay. During filming, she gets an
incredible shock—she’s attracted to the lead, Dr. Zara Winters. Zara is an
animal vet, and her crazy job hours haven’t led to the best relationships. She
and Lucy click right away, which prompts quite a few problems for Lucy. Does
she tell Zara the truth? How will Zara react? What about Zara’s connections
with the other contestants? They run the gamut, as is typical on TV dating. You
have the woodwork types viewers never get to know, the arrogant jerks, the
drama queens, the smoking hot people, the genuinely nice people and the people
you’re not sure what to make of (genuine or not? Aloof or shy?). Plus a few
twists along the way! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">Because of my love for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bachelor </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bachelorette</i>, I have followed many of these show-related blogs
for years. Some of them, such as Reality Steve (<a href="http://www.realitysteve.com/">www.realitysteve.com</a> – warning, show
spoilers!) were instrumental in providing the background knowledge I needed to
write authentically about the filming of a reality TV show. In countless blog
posts and with his insider knowledge, Steve has pointed out the myriad ways in
which reality TV isn’t “reality.” For example, retakes and reshoots of scenes
are common, if for no other reason than to get a better camera angle. Booze is
plentiful—leads to loose lips and drama. Contestants are asked the same
question countless ways until they give up the answer producers want. Sometimes
a producer may dangle a carrot (“Say X thing we want you to say, and we’ll make
sure you get alone time with Lead Y”). Many of the contestants are actors or
have/desire some kind of Hollywood career. All are gorgeous. Fantastic looking.
They don’t need to go on TV to find a date. Sure, a few are there in the hopes
of genuinely falling in love, but the majority are there for the adventure and
the experience. Absolutely nothing is wrong with that, but it does illuminate
the hypocrisy of shows in which contestants get vilified for “not being here
for the right reasons.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">I had always known this in the back of
my mind, but season after season, I sat back happily for my bubblegum TV. I
can’t anymore. When I settled in to watch the season of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bachelorette </i>airing now (Desiree’s season), I could NOT get
into it. I had just finished <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reality
Lesbian, </i>and perhaps it was the process of writing a book and doing reality
TV dating my own way, but I just could not get into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bachelorette </i>anymore. It is the same old, same old, same old.
Season after season. The formula works, no doubt. But it may have gotten too
old for this particular viewer. (If I was in charge of these shows, I’d shake
them up a bit.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">No doubt I’ll give these shows another
try in the future. For now, however paradoxically, it seems that writing this
book has soured me to watching the shows I used to love.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">Ah well! Such is life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 120%;">For more on “Reality Lesbian” and the
first two chapters, go here: <a href="http://www.qkellybooks.com/2013/06/reality-lesbian-is-out.html">http://www.qkellybooks.com/2013/06/reality-lesbian-is-out.html</a></span></span></span></div>
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links</span></u></b><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Lesbian-ebook/dp/B00DE1WYHY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371865845&sr=8-1&keywords=REALITY+LESBIAN" target=""><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Kindle</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/326216" target="_blank">Smashwords</a>
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reality-lesbian-q-kelly/1115641692?ean=2940016767710&itm=1&usri=2940016767710a" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Nook</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Reality-Lesbian/book-sHvgHk3hbUWALGdApgEKNA/page1.html?s=hHQeW06wm0KM90E1FdubMw&r=5" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Kobo</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 120%;"></span></div>
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GOING INDIE AND THE
RACE IS ON</div>
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As a writer whose works have been traditionally published
for years I have to admit I was spoiled. All I had to do was write a story good
enough to be accepted. Now I know I make it sound simple. The truth is, writing
is hard work. It involves painting a picture, but rather than using colors the
author uses words. Not an easy task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The written language does not easily convey nuances,
innuendos or emotions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dialogues must often
be explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meaning of one word
can be interpreted so many ways. Take <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stop.
</i>Is it an order? Was it yelled or whispered. Perhaps it was a plea. Writers
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Then there is narration. Is it too detailed or very
lackluster? Readers interests quickly turns to boredom if the writer can't draw
them into the story. Characters and settings need to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">visual </i>images, not just physical descriptions. How a reader relates
to each ultimately determines the success of the story. </div>
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Authors today have the luxury of self-publication rather
than suffer the angst of waiting for weeks or months for the acceptance or
rejection letter from the traditional publishers. Being an Indie, though, comes
with a price beyond the monetary investment. I learned this first hand.
Recently I started my own publishing company, <a href="http://www.novelideaspublishing.net/">Novel Ideas Publishing, LLC</a>. My
very first release, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-of-the-Butterfly-ebook/dp/B00C8EUSBW/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1371183306&sr=8-1"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Odyssey of the Butterfly, </i></a>is an anthology of five short stories with a central theme. When
I made the decision to self-publish I knew it wasn't going to be easy but never
realized how much I didn't know about the publishing side of the business. As I
said, I was spoiled. Fortunately there are other authors willing to share their
experience and expertise. I have found a community rich in knowledge and generous
with their time. </div>
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Still, being an Indie is a one-hundred percent hands on
experience that requires dedication, hard work, research, and a willingness to
work with others whose expertise is necessary to produce a quality product.
Copy editing, an appealing cover, proofing, etc. cannot be overlooked in the
rush to publish. Success comes with patience. It's better to be the tortoise,
slow and steady, than the hare, fast and reckless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone knows how the story ends but only
those who have gone Indie can really appreciate the journey and the obstacles
that need to be overcome. </div>
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If you are an author and want to be published, consider the
choices carefully. Each has their advantages and disadvantages. If you do
decide to self-publish, fasten your seat belt, hold on to your hat and prepare
yourself for an interesting ride. No one can guarantee your success. You may
not even make it to the finish line, but if you do…Congratulations! You've just
made it through the quarter-finals. Next comes 'promotions' and after that the
race is on.</div>
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Fran Heckrotte, Author/Publisher</div>
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<a href="http://www.novelideaspublishing.net/">Novel Ideas Publishing, LLC</a></div>
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Winner of the 2011 Alice B. Readers Award</div>
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The Illusionist Series</div>
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Solaria Series</div>
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Odyssey of the Butterfly</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Patty, thanks so much for inviting me to be here
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In my new release, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Staurolite</i></b>, the fourth
book in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Enchanted Bookstore
Legends</i></b>,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>I’m expanding and
developing the foundation of the magical lore of my fantasy world. The
characters find themselves needing the world’s ancient wisdom to solve their
own present day problems. The basis of this ages-old magical power is a group
of four mystical gemstones that parallel the four Chinese elements of nature:
air, earth, fire, and water. These stones serve as four powerful keystones
which, together, can empower the good Alliance to overcome the threatening
attacks of the evil Dark Realm. There is one controlling master gemstone, the
Staurolite, which gives this fourth book its title. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The gem corresponding to air I’ve chosen to work
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my keystone which corresponds to air, I
considered many attributes that would make it an empowering symbol.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’ve long been fascinated with blue-white
opalescence of the stone, sometimes described as ‘billowy light’ gliding over
the smooth cabochon surface. Gemologists refer to this characteristic as
adularescence, and a synonym for the stone is adularia. Moonstone can be
colorless, white, yellow, green, brown, orange, pink, or grey, but it always
has a white or blue sheen. The best moonstone is colorless with a blue sheen.
The colored varieties mainly come from India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The mystical connections of the gem intrigue me.
Moonstone is considered a birthstone for February, a mystical birthstone for
June, an astrological birthstone for the star sign Cancer, and the Ayurvedic
birthstone for September. I’ll be studying Ayurvedic yoga during my teacher
training this year and am eager to learn how this stone is used in that
science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Traditionally, some believe moonstone can be used
to balance a one's yin and yang. The gemstone is thought to soothe and balance
emotions and evoke calm responses. Called a visionary stone, moonstone brings
inspiration, strengthens intuition and sensitivity, enhances creativity, allows
the wearer to see situations from different angles, and helps one to see things
more clearly. It has even been said that moonstone has the power to grant
wishes. Some believe this stone will build self confidence, enhance compassion,
and promote happiness and longevity. It is also thought to be a stone of
protection, especially for travel at sea, pregnancy, and childbirth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is also considered an ideal stone for lovers,
since moonstone is reputed to bring forth tender feelings, protect true love,
support a person's emotional and dreamy tendencies, and increase sensitivity to
others. It’s said to attract friendship and loyalty to the wearer, encourage
personal attachments, help obtain romance, and arouse tender passion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heritage
Avenged</i></b> (book two), a large rainbow moonstone is used as the focal
point of an instrument which interprets information hidden in the stars. The
device is called the Spheres of Sidus. It helps the reader find an answer a
chosen question from the his or her past. Three onyx balls are positioned
according to current positions of the birth stars of specific ancestors. When,
at last, the focal moonstone rondure is placed and given sufficient power, it
conjures an answer in the form of a hologram-like image.</span></div>
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my latest release, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Staurolite </i></b>(book four), Lyra again uses rainbow moonstone of
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Spheres of Sidus to help her discover clues about the locations of the four
missing keystones. Additionally, through her studies of ancient texts, she
learns about the air keystone, a moonstone originally from Aria, the sky world
above Dragonspeir. Centuries ago, when the second Scribe was forced into Aria
by attacks from the Dark Realm, she recovered the lost moonstone. It was
enchanted by the queen of the sky world, to keep the folks in the Alliance safe
until they could reclaim their lands. A riddle within the Queen’s poem gives
Lyra clues about the location of that precious moonstone keystone. <br />
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Legend Four</i></b>. Lyra must learn how to find all four in time to save the
Alliance from the attacking Dark Realm.</span></div>
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-68004254423317701672013-06-05T20:42:00.000-04:002013-06-06T08:06:04.120-04:00Summer Guest Author Blogs Are Back!This summer, I open up The Henderson Files once again to a bevy of new and exciting Self-Published authors. They will be Guest Blogging and I hope you will find new authors to read and support.<br />
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And starting on June 14th, I will be hosting a handful of Self-Published Lesbian authors writing an array of fiction in the niche category of Lesbian Fiction. Join us for T. T. Thomas, Caren J. Werlinger, Q. Kelly, and others peppered through the summer months.<br />
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Next week, Friday the 7th, Fantasy Romance author Marsha A. Moore joins us to talk about her new book and her world of fantasy and romance! Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-6866779384151095292013-05-04T13:27:00.002-04:002013-05-04T13:28:07.802-04:00CAN'T TELL THE SHYSTERS FROM THE PUBLISHERSPlease read this carefully if you are an author looking to indie publish. This post was re-blogged from LET'S GET DIGITAL Blog and David Gaughran.<br />
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/the-author-exploitation-business/" rel="bookmark" title="4:04 pm"><span class="entry-date">May 4, 2013</span></a> <span class="by-author"><span class="sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/author/davidgaughran/" rel="author" title="View all posts by davidgaughran">davidgaughran</a></span> </span> </div>
<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="http://davidgaughran.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/penguin-11.gif"><img alt="penguin (1)" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2347" src="http://davidgaughran.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/penguin-11.gif?w=640" /></a>Writing
is a glamorous occupation – at least from the outside. Popular
depictions of our profession tend to leave out all the other stuff that
comes with the territory: carpal tunnel syndrome, liver failure, penury,
and madness.</span><br />
Okay, okay, I jest. I love being a writer. Sharing stories with the
world and getting paid for it is bloody brilliant. It’s a dream job, and
like any profession with a horde of neophytes seeking to break in,
there are plenty of sharks waiting to chew them to bits.<br />
Publishing is a screwed up business. The often labyrinthine path to
success makes it much easier for those with nefarious intentions to scam
the unsuspecting. But it doesn’t help that so many organizations who
claim to help writers, to respect them, to assist them along the path to
publication are actually screwing them over.<br />
Before the digital revolution made self-publishing viable on a wide
scale, the dividing lines were easier to spot. Traditional publishers
paid you if they wanted to buy the rights to your novel. Self-publishers
were people who filled their garages with books and tried to hawk them
at events. And vanity presses were the scammers, luring the unsuspecting
with false promises and roundly condemned by self-publishers and
traditional publishers alike.<br />
Today it’s very different. The scammy vanity presses are owned by
traditional publishers who are marketing them as the “easy” way to
self-publish – when it’s nothing more than a horrifically expensive and
terribly ineffective way to publish your work, guaranteed to kill your
book’s chance of success stone dead, while emptying your bank account in
the process.<br />
Some of you might think: hey, it’s just business. <i>Caveat emptor</i> and all that. And don’t these people know how to use Google?<br />
That’s easy to say from our position of experience. Do you remember how naive you were at the start? Do you remember <i>just how badly</i> you wanted to get published? Do you remember the crushing grind of the query-go-round?<br />
I’m not surprised people get scammed. When you want something so
badly, and you can’t seem to make progress towards that goal – no matter
how hard you work – you start to go crazy. You get desperate.<br />
And it’s much harder to tell the scammers from the legitimate organizations <i>when they are owned by the same people</i>.<br />
Take Penguin-owned Author Solutions, one of the worst vanity presses
out there. Here’s how they hoodwink inexperienced writers into using
their horribly expensive service.<span id="more-2686"></span><br />
If you Google a term like “find a publisher” the results are littered
with sites like FindYourPublisher.com (which I’m not going to link to
because that will help their SEO, but you can cut-and-paste that
address).<br />
The website purports to be an independent resource, helping to pair
you with the most suitable publishing company. Or as they put it:<br />
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dedicated to helping both first-time and experienced
authors identify the most suitable indie book publishing company for
their book. With the information you provide about your book and goals,
FYP makes a recommendation as to which indie book publisher has the best
publishing package to help you reach your publishing objectives.</blockquote>
Below this message is an online questionnaire asking you about your
book. When you have completed that and handed over your phone number,
the site makes a recommendation based on your answers.<br />
Except the only companies recommended are Trafford, AuthorHouse,
Xlibris, and iUniverse – all of which are scammy vanity presses, all
owned by Author Solutions. And, fitting with the rest of the pattern,
FindYourPublisher.com is just one of many (many!) such sites owned and
operated by Author Solutions, purporting to make independent
recommendations, but only recommending Author Solutions companies.<br />
I have sympathy for those hoodwinked by awful companies like Author
Solutions. The dividing lines aren’t as obvious as they were. And
inexperienced writers naively assume that a company like Penguin has
their best interests at heart. Maybe it’s the cuddly logo.<br />
<b>Newsflash: Penguin doesn’t care about writers</b><br />
When Penguin bought <a href="http://indiereader.com/2012/07/penguins-new-business-model-exploiting-writers/" target="_blank">the world’s biggest vanity press for $116m last July</a>,
many people in the publishing business gave them a pass. They claimed
that Penguin would clean up the cesspool. But instead Author Solutions
CEO Kevin Weiss was given a seat on the Penguin board.<br />
A seat on the board!<br />
Emily Suess wrote an excellent guest post here back in February, <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/penguins-solution-for-authors-one-racket-to-rule-them-all/" target="_blank">detailing how the slick Author Solutions scam hadn’t changed one bit since the Penguin takeover</a>.<br />
It’s now almost a year since Penguin bought the company (instead of
buying, say, Goodreads, but I digress). It should be clear to everyone
now that Penguin has no intention of changing Author Solutions’ scammy
approach. In fact, <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/57076-penguin-exec-named-new-ceo-of-author-solutions.html" target="_blank">Penguin just announced plans to take the scam global</a>.<br />
Penguin has been looking under the Author Solutions hood for 10
months now. Its conclusion was this: we can make this bigger. We can
take this scam on the road and start exploiting writers all over the
planet.<br />
And Penguin is <i>still</i> getting a pass for this crap.<br />
<b>The Penguin Omerta</b><br />
The <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/57076-penguin-exec-named-new-ceo-of-author-solutions.html" target="_blank">Publishers Weekly piece on Penguin’s aggressive expansion plans for Author Solutions</a> makes no mention of the company being a universally reviled vanity press that has cheated 150,000 writers out of their savings.<br />
This is something I’ve been noticing for a while, and Publishers Weekly isn’t alone. The pieces in <a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/news/penguin-puts-phillips-head-author-solutions.html" target="_blank">The Bookseller</a>, <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/andrew-phillips-author-solutions-ceo_b69732" target="_blank">GalleyCat</a>, and <a href="http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/pearson-appoints-penguin-company-insider-andrew-phillips-to-head-author-solutions/" target="_blank">Digital Book World</a> also
make no mention of the widespread criticism that Author Solutions has
attracted, nor do they mention that the company is currently the subject
of <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/the-author-exploitation-business/accrispin.blogspot.com/2013/05/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against.html" target="_blank">a class action suit for their deceptive practices</a>.<br />
More disturbingly, my comment pointing this out appears to have been
scrubbed from The Bookseller, is stuck in the moderation queue on
Digital Book World’s piece (despite <a href="https://twitter.com/DigiBookWorld/status/330402522013503490" target="_blank">explicitly stating that they had posted it</a>).<br />
The reaction at the London Book Fair was similar. No-one from
traditional publishing wanted to talk about Penguin’s ownership of
Author Solutions. No-one wants to talk about how a supposedly legitimate
publisher now owns the most successful author scamming organization on
the planet.<br />
These guys are probably taking their cue from the New York Times, who
won’t mention anything remotely critical about Author Solutions, but
are happy to spend lots of time showing them in a positive light (like <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/simon-schuster-introduces-self-publishing-service/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/penguin-acquires-self-publishing-company/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28selfpub.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/author-solutions-signs-deal-for-rival-publisher/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/your-money/the-rise-in-self-publishing-opens-the-door-for-aspiring-writers.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/the-authors-hearts-beat-faster-publishing-was-so-close-now/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/self-publishing-company-acquires-rival/" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/technology/personaltech/ins-and-outs-of-publishing-your-book-via-the-web.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">here</a>).<br />
<b>Writer Beware</b><br />
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has done
sterling work over the years warning writers away from people like
Author Solutions both <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/2013/05/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-author-solutions-inc/" target="_blank">on their own site</a>, and through their industry watchdog <a href="http://accrispin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against.html" target="_blank">Writer Beware</a>.<br />
However, I would<i> love</i> to see them go one step further.<br />
Remember those <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/publishers-behaving-badly-part-ive-lost-count/" target="_blank">awful Random House digital-first imprints</a>?
Public pressure forced Random House to change the horribly one-sided
terms it was offering writers. That result was achieved after Writer
Beware blogged about it, SFWA president John Scalzi followed up, and
SFWA itself threatened to de-list Random House as a qualifying market.<br />
What Author Solutions is doing to writers is far, far worse.<br />
Isn’t it time to do something about this? Isn’t it time to threaten
to de-list Penguin as a qualifying market if they don’t clean up Author
Solutions?<br />
<b>Hands Up If You Don’t Own A Vanity Press</b><br />
There’s only problem with this approach. Where do you stop? Because
you would have to threaten to do the same with all these guys too:<br />
1. Simon & Schuster hired Author Solutions to run <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/simon-schuster-joins-forces-with-author-solutions-to-rip-off-writers/" target="_blank">their own scammy vanity press</a> – Archway Publishing. If that wasn’t enough, they then offered <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/publishers-behaving-badly-part-ive-lost-count/" target="_blank">a bounty</a> to bloggers to lie about the company.<br />
2. Harper Collins-owned Thomas Nelson have <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/the-author-exploitation-business/accrispin.blogspot.com/2009/10/thomas-nelson-adds-self-publishing.html" target="_blank">their own crappy vanity operation called West Bow Press</a> – also “powered” by Author Solutions.<br />
3. Harlequin, never afraid to turn down a penny, <a href="http://accrispin.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/harlequin-horizons-another-major.html" target="_blank">jumped in the game a few years ago</a>. Author Solutions provided the white-label vanity operation for them.<br />
4. Showing that it’s not just the larger publishers, <a href="http://accrispin.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/hay-house-publishing-establishes.html" target="_blank">Hay House contracted Author Solutions to set up Balboa Press</a> – another scammy, crappy, overpriced vanity press.<br />
If it was down to me, I would threaten to de-list all these guys
until they cleaned house, but Penguin would be a good start, given they
(a) it all comes back to Author Solutions, (b) Penguin owns Author
Solutions, (c) Penguin has shown no interest in addressing concerns, and
(d) Penguin is planning a massive expansion of the Author Solutions
scam.<br />
<b>Writers Digest & Lulu</b><br />
I’m sure Digital Book World’s reluctance to mention the problems with
Author Solutions has nothing to do with the fact that they are owned by
F+W Media, which also owns yet another crappy vanity press – <a href="http://www.abbottpress.com/" target="_blank">Abbot Press</a> (which has some of the worst prices out there).<br />
In a refreshing change of pace, this crappy vanity press is not
actually powered by Author Solutions. Abbot Press is a division of
Writers Digest. Yes, that <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/" target="_blank">Writers Digest</a>.<br />
If that catches you by surprise, I’m sorry to say that Writers Digest
went over to the dark side a few years back, and now spam their
subscribers <a href="http://www.awaionline.com/p/tbw/dbr/" target="_blank">with crap like this</a>.<br />
I’m sure Author Solutions was disappointed to miss out on that deal
but at least they can console themselves with the new partnership they
struck with Lulu last month to provide premium (i.e. overpriced and
ineffective) marketing services to Lulu customers.<br />
That’s right. Lulu made <a href="http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/03/08/lulu-signs-deal-with-the-devil-now-partnered-with-author-solutions/" target="_blank">a deal with the devil</a>.<br />
<b>How Can We Fight Back?</b><br />
Penguin think they can continue to ride out the storm, ignoring the
criticism and collecting their ill-gotten gains, but if we make enough
noise, they will have to respond. That starts with sharing this post,
or, even better, blogging about it yourself.<br />
But it also means reaching out to inexperienced writers and trying to
steer them away from these crooks. We need to get the message out that
self-publishing is not the impossible task it’s painted as. Sarah
Woodbury has <a href="http://www.sarahwoodbury.com/im-a-new-author-how-do-i-get-published/" target="_blank">a helpful post on the basics here</a>, and I have <a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/basics/" target="_blank">another here</a>. Feel free to point newbies to them, or write your own.<br />
Each time you see an article talking about Author Solutions and not
mentioning all the issues, comment underneath and call them on it. Even
if the media don’t change their one-eyed approach, readers will see the
comments.<br />
If you’re a member of a writers organization like SFWA, RWA, or MWA,
ask what they are doing about Penguin. Ask them why they haven’t
threatened to de-list Penguin. And keep pressing them! The SFWA (and the
RWA) were really strong in response to Random House. We need the same
from them again.<br />
150,000 writers have been screwed over already. I think that’s enough. Don’t you?<br />
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-91551664243324051332013-04-29T13:15:00.000-04:002013-04-29T13:15:30.139-04:00CAN A SINGLE LINE IGNITE A FULL LENGTH NOVEL?<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I got to
wondering how many of you, or if any of you, have ever been spurred into
a brand new novel by a simple line that worked its magical way into
your thoughts and wouldn't leave you alone until you created a story to
match its magic? I know this question is directed at authors, but many readers are also interested in the thought process of how a novel comes into being and what motivates authors, so I hope non-authors will find this blog of interest as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>"</b></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882142"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882141"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">There are demons within us all just as surely as there is the goodness of Christ. Love is blind to b</span><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882140" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">oth..."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882142"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882141"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882140" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882142" style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882141"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882140"><span style="font-size: small;">That line crept into my imagination <span style="font-size: small;">and haunted me un<span style="font-size: small;">til<span style="font-size: small;"> I wrote my latest <span style="font-size: small;">Gothic Historical <span style="font-size: small;">Romance, PASSION FOR VENGEANCE</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882142" style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882141"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882140"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882142" style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882141"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882140"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
about you? How many authors have been piqued by a line that crossed
their thoughts? Or, is the power of just one line enough<span style="font-size: small;"> to lau<span style="font-size: small;">nch a whole story? I believe it is. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882142" style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882141"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1346961438882140"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">And just so you can't call me a "one line wonder<span style="font-size: small;">," I've just started a brand new Gothic Historical Romance, WHE<span style="font-size: small;">RE EVIL DWE<span style="font-size: small;">LLS. <span style="font-size: small;">And what was the line <span style="font-size: small;">t<span style="font-size: small;">hat star<span style="font-size: small;">ted me off on th<span style="font-size: small;">is one? Well, two, but the one I will share because it is the most po<span style="font-size: small;">werful....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>"I'm afraid I've been romancing death more than anyone of flesh and blood..."</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, another line from my fertile imagination has the power to ignite a novel into existence, even the book cover too! Below is the cover for my newest Gothic Historical Romance<span style="font-size: small;"> work in progress</span>, born of one single line...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> As an author, has a single line<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> <span style="font-size: small;">sprung out of nowhere and grabbed your imagination,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> spurred a full length novel? I would love to hear your stories.</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leave your comments and share your experiences. </span>Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-40664926204931266082013-04-12T14:31:00.000-04:002013-04-12T14:31:25.462-04:00MIXED MEDIA: BOOK TRAILERS AND THE WRITTEN WORDSo, I have indeed been negligent with my own blog. December 2012 came with a blog, the new New Year waved by and Spring came sneaking in without a single new blog. Thank goodness I never set a schedule for blogging.....LOL. I wanted to start on a new blog with the topic of Book Trailers.<br />
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For as long as there have been feature films, there have been movie trailers in advance to advertise the film.....to tease the viewer with the most exciting collage of the best and most titillating scenes from the movie. Movie trailers are meant to entice the movie goer into coming to see the feature film when it is released. They are mostly short, quick, and to the point. No excess fat. They obviously work because no film is ever released without a movie trailer in advance. Movie trailers are a staple of movie making.<br />
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But what does film have to do with books? The written word. Film is a different beast than the written word....than a book. It's a totally different experience. The visual, candy for the eyes of films, as opposed to the written, words for the brain. But is there really that much difference or just a difference in how we are getting the information to the one place it all goes to anyway--our brain?<br />
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Book trailers, or basically movie trailers for books, have been around for some time but considered a relatively new tool in the author's toolkit. But do book trailers work? If you pose that question to any authors group, you are bound to get an equal divide between "Yes" and "No." Being a self-pubbed author, I have the luxury of tracking my sales online at both Amazon and Barnes and Noble daily (hourly for those obsessed with such things). This gives me the ability to somewhat gauge how any promotion tool I use worked or didn't. If I get sales after doing a Guest Blog, an interview or posting a book trailer, I consider it a safe bet that the promotion worked. Those who are contracted authors, unfortunately, aren't so lucky. You don't know your sales so you have no way to know what is working and what isn't on a daily or even monthly basis.<br />
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For me, book trailers work. As a matter of fact, they work better than some other tried and true methods. Plus, they are an awful lot of fun to do if you want to do them yourself. You can use Windows Movie Maker to create a simple but effective book trailer. Or, if you have the budget, get one made with all the bells and whistles and special effects. Some detractors point that a book is not a film and book trailers are not true to the written word. I wonder how that is. Don't we use a visual medium, the book cover, to sell and promote our books? The visual is very much a part of the written word. Our words create "visual worlds." The book trailer is merely eye-candy promoting our written words. There is no sin in embracing book trailers to sell books. I would go so far as to say that if your book trailer did not sell even one book, then perhaps the book trailer wasn't produced for maximum effect. Okay, so what is maximum effect? Don't make your book trailer over one minute with excessive text. Today's attention span is very limited. Don't tell your whole story in the book trailer. Use evocative images moving quickly. Include succinct blurbs and text that tease. Make that potential reader want to know more about the book and buy it.<br />
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A well put together book trailer can sell books. It can. Don't dismiss book trailers. Try your hand at producing one. Check other book trailers out there and see what is possible. I would love to hear comments form authors and readers on book trailers. Do they work for you? Why and why not?<br />
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I've included several of my own book trailers. I wanted to include one of my Brenda Strange Supernatural Mysteries book trailer, but it has been lost in a computer crash. Some are done by me and others by a more seasoned professional. None are overly slick but simple for anyone to create.Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-38834514523343993442012-12-26T00:10:00.000-05:002012-12-26T21:05:53.430-05:00THE NEXT BIG THING BLOG HOP<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And I'm happy that you made it to the Henderson Files where I'm so delighted to have been tagged to be part of the wild and exciting <b><u>The Next Big Thing Blog Hop</u></b>. It's like a chain letter of authors passing along or "tagging" new authors for the following week. It's a unique way to find out what new book an author is working on or a new release. In my case, I want to tell you about my upcoming new Gothic Historical Romance, PASSION FOR VENGEANCE, but also have fun with my current Gothic as well. I was tagged by lesbian Historical Romance author <a href="http://www.ttthomas.com/">T.T. Thomas</a>. Thanks bunches, Tarra. </span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The fun part is that each author gets the same ten questions. They are fun and hopefully the readers will find them equally so. Don't forget to check at the bottom of my final answer for the author I've tagged for next week's <b>The Next Big Thing Blog Hop</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Title of my new lesbian Gothic Historical Romance is PASSION FOR
VENGEANCE. I’m hoping for a Spring 2013 release. This is the first Internet release
of the cover for the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve written two previous lesbian Gothic Historicals that have
pretty much followed the tried and true formula for successful Gothics but I
was interested in exploring the relationship between dark and light and how
life situations can impact a woman to plunge into the darker aspects of her
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gothic Historical Romance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, what fun! You mean I get to play Hollywood Producer and
Casting Agent? Since PASSION FOR VENGEANCE won’t be published until Spring
2013, I’m hesitant to give readers predisposed images of the characters. I
prefer my readers to use their imaginations with the words I use. If they are
expertly written, then a reader should have a powerful picture of what I want
them to see. However, there is one actress that I feel is so perfect, that I
think I can take the chance.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Emily Blunt would make a perfect Emma Stiles from the forthcoming PASSION FOR VENGEANCE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And just to keep playing casting agent, I thought it would
be fun to cast the leading characters in my current and newest Gothic
Historical Romance, CASTLE OF DARK SHADOWS, now available at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/CASTLE-OF-DARK-SHADOWS-ebook/dp/B008H5MWW4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1356573811&sr=8-2&keywords=castle+of+dark+shadows">Amazon as a Kindle eBook and paperback</a>, also at <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/castle-of-dark-shadows-patty-g-henderson/1111961323?ean=2940014688369">Barnes and Noble online as an ePub eBook.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Natalie Portman as "Marion Dunraven" from CASTLE OF DARK SHADOWS</span></div>
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glorious Havenswood, the now faded estate of the famous and decorated Colonel
Vincent Havens, a Civil War Union hero. Her older brother, Cole Havens, current Master of Havenswood, is unable to restore the splendor of Havenswood to its
days of glory. Into the midst of the crumbling plantation is thrust Emma
Stiles, a mysterious young woman who is hired as governess to young Henry
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skeletons in the Havens closet are finally exposed but none could compare to
the darkest, most destructive secret that lies hidden within the soul
of Emma Stiles. When Jane and Emma fall madly in love, and passions and lust
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have my own indie imprint, Blanca Rosa Publishing. I no longer sign contracts with publishers.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?</b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I can normally write and publish a novel-length book within one year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With PASSION FOR VENGEANCE, I've broken from my previous two Gothic Historical Romances. There is deeper character explorations.....Deeper and more erotic sex (some may actually wonder if the old Patty G. Henderson has been kidnapped and a replica put in her place).....and complete instructions on how to make "the Green Fairy," or better known as Absinthe, the favorite drink of bohemians and "outsiders" everywhere. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you so much for stopping by The Henderson Files.....Next week, I've tagged author<a href="http://www.sarahettritch.com/"> Sarah Ettritch</a> for the January 2nd The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. Sarah has written fantasy and science fiction novels including the <i>Rymellan Series, </i>the <i>Threaded Through Time</i> series and other faves such as <i>The Salbine Sisters. </i></span></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-74698333298634326152012-11-05T16:52:00.002-05:002012-11-05T16:52:48.086-05:00THE NEW WAVEIs self-publishing about to become the new norm for publishing? Even in my small niche, small POD publishers are closing their doors. Authors are left homeless and adrift. Many will turn an eye toward self-publishing. Is it the right choice? Self-publishing has been recently, but almost always, blamed for the death of books and publishing. You can find such articles anywhere on the net. Not so. It is, in fact, the new wave of publishing and the oncoming tsunami won't be turned back. With small publishers going under, the big conglomerates looking more and more like One World Publishing, self-publishing is looking really, really good.<br />
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How many will strike out and publish on their own? Will you be one to take out your surfboard and daringly try to balance the wave? Check out the link for a thought-provoking blog post and then post your response here if you'd like. Or not.<br />
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Follow the link and then come back here and share your thoughts at The Henderson Files:<br />
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<a href="http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/self-publishers-arent-killing-the-industry-theyre-saving-it/#more-2476">http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/self-publishers-arent-killing-the-industry-theyre-saving-it/#more-2476</a><br />
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Patty G. HendersonPatty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-48037979928293632022012-09-21T04:49:00.001-04:002012-09-21T04:49:15.880-04:00GUEST BLOGGER: Peg Brantley<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Five Simple Truths for Indie Authors</i></b></div>
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Those of us who are writing today know that we’re writing in
an amazing place and time. Publishing has changed (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a lot!</i>) and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of those changes
slowing down.</div>
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But with all of the fluctuations—all of the tweaking and
adjustments and tossing out of the old way of doing business—there are a few
things I think are timeless. When my head begins to hurt because I’m not sure
what to do next, I think of these things that are like simple truths for indie
authors:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simple Truth #1: When you invest in your book, you invest in yourself.</i></b></div>
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Hire a professional editor. There is no way a book is going
to be the best it can be without one. Readers have become more savvy and
discerning than ever before. They’ve learned to download a sample and if that
sample is weak, they aren’t going to care about your cover or your title or
your trailer or the fact that it’s free.</div>
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Speaking of covers (*wink*)… I believe that I sold at least
a couple of copies of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Tide-ebook/dp/B007OWQ5F6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1348217217&sr=8-2&keywords=red+tide"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Tide</i></a> because
the cover was intriguing. Unless you are an amazing graphic designer, with all
the tools at your disposal, hire someone who will work with you and tweak your
cover until it can’t be tweaked anymore.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simple Truth #2: What one person loves about your book, another person
won’t.</i></b></div>
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I love this. Life would be pretty dull if we all loved the
same stuff. Some people aren’t going to be drawn to your book. Period. Get over
it. Embrace the diversity. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simple Truth #3: Manipulation can lead to strangulation.</i></b></div>
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There’s a fine line between gentle persuasion and cramming
your book down someone’s throat. Remember that ‘social networking’ is exactly
what it says. It is not your own private billboard. If I follow you on Twitter
or friend you on Facebook, that does not give you permission to blast your book
in my face. If you push me hard enough, I’ll push back.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simple Truth #4: Readers are gold.</i></b></div>
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Readers owe you nothing. When they reach out to you, take
the time to respond as graciously as possible. You build your audience one
reader at a time.</div>
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You owe readers everything. They validate you every time
they pick up your book and read it. They affirm that the thing you love doing
you do well.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simple Truth #5: Never stop improving. </i></b></div>
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Keep learning. Read books on craft, don’t just buy them and
stick them on your bookshelf. Go to conferences, take workshops. Talk with
other writers. Work to make your next book better than your last one.</div>
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And finally, one more (call it a bonus): </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simple Truth #6: Trust the process.</i></b></div>
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If you write a good book, invest in it, lose your ego and appreciate
the people who find your book in that great ocean of books, things will shake
out wonderfully in the end.</div>
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What about you? Is there another simple truth you’d like to
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Hey, I’m Juli and
I’m a writer. Yes, I know everyone is these days right? It’s fun, exciting,
they say. Hey, maybe you can even get lucky and make some money. </div>
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(Okay, okay, now
that we’ve all stopped laughing, ask yourself this: What drives you to it? To
create, to put yourself out there, to try again and again? </div>
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That, I think, is
the question we all have to ask ourselves once we move these tales out of our
computers. What drives us to give them to critique partners, to let them tear
open our veins, for better or worse? </div>
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For me, it was not
an easy road. Every writer has stories of rejection, of wrong turns. In my
case, I think it was Fate slapping me in the nose that led me to finally listen
to the gurus that urged, “Come on; you should just try this once.”</div>
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And Fate’s a <i>real</i>
bitch, sometimes. What can you do when life smacks you in the nose? I got
smacked pretty hard the last few years, but I didn’t sit down and feel sorry
for myself. </div>
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No. I wrote.</div>
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And wrote.</div>
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And wrote some
more. I fouled up a couple times, and a couple manuscripts; but then I sat
down, and thought real hard. Was I squeezing myself into a box I just wasn’t
going to fit in?</div>
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If I continued
on the path I’d been following for half my life (yes, <i>half</i> my life), and
tried and tried and tried really hard, what were the odds that I’d ever get
further than I had in all those years of trying? Was I becoming better at
querying? Or worse at writing? </div>
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Yes, believe it or not, I’m coming to realize practice doesn’t always
make perfect, if you are practicing the wrong things. And practicing in a storm
of upheaval—which Patty can attest to—doesn’t always yield results.</div>
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But hey. It’s a
learning process, right?</div>
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The end result
added to what I’ve done today. It compelled me to take a real look at Legacy
publishing and I realized, maybe its brass ring wasn’t so shiny after all. The
stigmas have been swept aside and maybe not everyone needs to take the same
path to enlighten--erm, I mean publication. The realization, or the sting of
the smacks whatever you want to call it, the storms I weathered went into the
storms of my first book, <i>The Artist’s Inheritance</i>—and helped me to
deepen and publish it, for better or worse.</div>
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So, the question
all comes down to this: What can you trust more in the storm? The rusty brass
ring? Or the sails of your own making?</div>
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I know what I think. So, if you’re thinking of what to do with those
sails of trying, and trying again. Then do. Get out there, and hoist those
sails. We’ll see what’s over the horizon.</div>
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Want to learn more about my book <i>The Artist’s Inheritance</i>? Okay.</div>
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Synopsis:</div>
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Settling into their new home in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Caitlin finds
strange changes coming over her husband Trevor. He seems obsessed with a
beautiful chair he’s carving.</div>
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When the nightmares deepen and ghosts begin lurking—she knows something’s
not right, and not just her newfound precognitive abilities. It’s the damned
chair, she’s sure. Could it be just what it seems: a mundane piece of
furniture? If so, why is it attracting dark forces—the forces she suspects
drove Trevor’s siblings to insanity and suicide?</div>
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Before the same happens to Trevor, Caitlin must convince him to sell his
art. But armed with only a handful of allies, and little experience of the
supernatural, she must proceed with caution against the hellish forces
besieging her family. If she succeeds, she will break the ancestral curse. If
she fails, she may lose forever the one thing she cares about most: her beloved
Trevor.</div>
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It’s available
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About Juli D. Revezzo</h1>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1019802662">on twitter: </a><a href="http://twitter.com/juliannewrites" style="color: white;"><span style="mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;"><span style="mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">http://twitter.com/juliannewrites</span></span></a></div>
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-63919740092854798172012-09-07T00:23:00.002-04:002012-09-07T00:29:26.187-04:00GUEST BLOGGER: Jolene Dawe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I sat staring at the screen for weeks, trying to figure out how to write this.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/.%20http://www.lulu.com/shop/jolene-dawe/the-fairy-queen-of-spencers-butte-and-other-tales/paperback/product-18721080.html"> Fairy Queen of Spencer's Butte and Other Tales</a><br />
is the first book
I've published that I've actively tried to push -- and I suppose, if I'm
being honest, "actively tried to push" isn't quite right. Still, I've
done more to get the word out about this book than I have with my other <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/jolene-naiadis-dawe/treasures-from-the-deep/ebook/product-18656633.html">indie published book</a> -- and I think this book has a wider audience appeal.
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That said, talking about it is hard. I'm new enough
at indie publishing that I haven't yet made up in my mind how I want to
present myself, publicly. And this indecision has caused me angst.
This, I think, is going to be the most difficult part of publishing
independently. It's preventing me from pushing the book as well as I
could be. Why?</div>
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I haven't yet figured out if -- or how -- I can speak about<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/jolene-dawe/the-fairy-queen-of-spencers-butte-and-other-tales/ebook/product-18721269.html"> Fairy Queen of Spencer's Butte and Other Tales</a> without mentioning
the fact that the whole collection is written in homage to the spirits
of this place. I can't speak of <i>The Elk Prince</i>
without pointing out that it's a retelling of a common Pacific Northwest
native tale; I can't talk about <i>The Girl with Mushrooms in Her
Hair</i> without speaking of walks along the beautiful McKenzie
River and the tale the rapids had to share. I can't tell you about
<i>When The Hills Come Courting</i> without mentioning the
small, secret, liminal spaces tucked away all around this city, wanting
and waiting to be discovered. I don't know how to talk about this
collection that was a thanks-giving to the spirits in our adopted home
without pointing out that the collection is, first and foremost, a
thanks-giving. So, I suppose, let me tell you about that.
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In 2008, my partner and I packed up our house and
moved West. We came West just as the American economy was crashing,
without the promise of jobs, with a small cushion from having sold her
house, with a very small support group cheering us on. We everything we
needed and more in Eugene, Oregon. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Queen-Spencers-Butte-ebook/dp/B006Y04740/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344392015&sr=8-1&keywords=Jolene+Dawe">Fairy Queen of Spencer's Butte and Other Tales</a> is, simply put,
about my love for this city, the region, and its people.
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It wasn't easy, moving across the country from
nearly everyone I know and love. It's not easy remaining here -- I feel
constantly torn in two. Yet, I walk through my neighborhood, so much
like any other neighborhood outside of an urban city, and I can't help
but be infused with the spirit of this place. It goes deeper than simple
surface impressions. Yes, Eugene is a college town. We have fresh blood
coming in every year to help keep place young and hip. We have our long
established tradition of hippies, half in this world, half in other
worlds, wanting to build community, wanting us all to see the
brotherhood of man. We have a fair number of homeless and transients,
some by choice, others by circumstances and hard economic times (and a
number of them caring for unwanted dogs and cats, to boot, which can
only ever be a good thing. Everyone should know love and kindness). And
this is just the humans I'm speaking of. This doesn't touch upon those
who may not be incarnate, or those who are flying about the skies or
crawling through the underbrush, or those who were flesh but came before
and are now beloved ancestors of this place.</div>
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Downtown, in front of our library, sits a bronze
statue of the man who gave our city its name: Eugene Skinner. Across the
street, at the bus station, a statue of Rosa Parks sits upon her
bus-bench. Down the street further, Ken Kesey sits reading to a gaggle
of bronze children. Regularly, these statues are adorned with flowers
and other gifts. Ancestor veneration is alive and well in this city;
it's not unreasonable that I should add to it with my humble offering of
stories.</div>
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But, do I talk about that? Does this not detract
from the stories themselves? Should I not just be talking about the
collection, and indie publishing? In my mind, it's all interwoven. I
moved here somewhat randomly, but fell in love with Place. Moving as I
did, away from what was known and safe into the unknown, risking much in
the process, engendered a sense of kinship with those who had come
before -- explorers, homesteaders, pioneers, and even further back --
people not fulfilled or satisfied with the life offered back East. This
whole mindset synchs up with indie publishing very nicely: though it
works for some people, it's not the answer for everyone, and alternate
options should (and thanks to the technology at our hands, is) available
for people. We are living in exciting and interesting times, and I, for
one, am fascinated by the changing dynamic between creator and
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<i><i>Fairy Queen of Spencer's Butte and Other Tales</i></i>
is a collection of 12 stories, all inspired by or set in and around the
Willamette Valley of Oregon. They are inspired by the local folktales,
by the shadow of Spencer's Butte in the valley, by the California
poppies ringed around stones, by faces hidden in the blackberry
clusters. They, hopefully, share with you the beauty, magic, and wonder
this place has inspired within me, and it's my greatest hope that they
leave you as nourished as they've left me.</div>
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In grade school, I loved to read. In fifth grade, my teacher
had a group of us write a play. We wrote a mystery and I realized that’s what I
wanted to do when I grew up. I’ve been playing with words and phrases and story
lines ever since. I was never good at math anyway, so it was a good fit.</div>
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As happens often for writers, everyone told me I needed a
day job. So when I went to university, I went into communications/journalism so
I could eat rather than pursuing my first love of fiction. </div>
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The great thing about doing a bout as a reporter is that it
teaches you to write on deadline and without waiting for inspiration. It also
helps you pound out the mythical million words it supposedly takes to become a
good writer. As a reporter, I did my own photography and film development (I
give some of my age away there), and we each had a section of the paper to layout
on paper boards – not on computer monitors. Who knew these skills would
continue to serve me well?</div>
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I started several books that got interrupted and not
finished. One a friend still asks me about the ending she never got to read.
Jobs came and went. I worked in television production, marketing, art
direction, freelance writing and design. </div>
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I wrote everything I could get paid for and some that I
didn’t, but finally buckled down to follow my heart, even if I had to squeeze
it into life. I discovered I LOVE writing a first draft. It’s like watching a
movie unfold in my mind’s eye. That’s my favorite part of the authorial process.
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I gave up on finding an agent for my first completed book
and started working on a second book. This one I knew was a good story and my
writer’s group approved of it. I was more optimistic but again the agents’ responses
were disappointing form letters.</div>
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During this same time period, I was working a day job for a
tiny publishing house. Tiny as in me and one other guy (the one who picked or
wrote books). I knew how to layout a book. I knew how to do graphic design
projects required for a book. I knew how to get bids to take a book to
press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was oh so tempting to do it
myself, but this was pre-ebook. We were talking about some serious cash outlay
and this was not a time in my life I had that kind of cash. I knew in my heart
I had the skill set, but I wanted the big publisher kind of book.</div>
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Life interrupted my writing life again, but I rewrote the
second book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Killed-in-Kruger-ebook/dp/B00881E7GG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1346432588&sr=1-1&keywords=killed+in+kruger">Killed in Kruger</a>, until it was a finely tuned creation. During
this time I watched in fascination as first the music industry and then the publishing
industry disintegrated and something entirely new and different rose from the
ashes. To a large extent it’s still happening in publishing. I knew I had the
skills to do a book on my own. I’d been paid to do it for others. Why not indie
publishing in a new publishing atmosphere?</div>
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I watched and researched the changing publishing world and taught myself the
ebook process by releasing some of my previously published short stories last
year. (Dying to Diet and Snow Slayer). I spent a small chunk of change on a
professional editor and this year I released<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Killed-in-Kruger-ebook/dp/B00881E7GG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1346432588&sr=1-1&keywords=killed+in+kruger"> Killed in Kruger</a>, a suspense novel
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I recently told a writer friend from my group that I’ve had
way more fun publishing and trying to get my head around marketing my ebooks
than I did in all the years of getting rejections letters from New York City.</div>
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It seems all the jobs I’ve had through the years were
preparing me for this time. So now I not only do I get to see the movie in my
head as I write the books, I also get to make sure the marketing looks like I
imagined. What fun.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Denise's
background in journalism and television production has influenced her writing
style and habits, while living overseas for several years, currently in Madrid,
Spain, gives Denise's imagination new sites and sounds for her mysteries on a
day in and out basis. She is a member of Sisters In Crime, including having
been the president of her hometown Kansas City Partners in Crime chapter.
Denise has a passion for reading, books, travel, dogs, tea, and teapots not
necessarily in that order. Her short stories and novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Killed-in-Kruger-ebook/dp/B00881E7GG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1346432588&sr=1-1&keywords=killed+in+kruger">Killed in Kruger</a> are
available now in ebook and will be in print coming this fall.</span></div>
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Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-13288756382753537982012-08-26T08:56:00.000-04:002012-08-26T08:56:03.884-04:00Even Born in the Eye of the Hurricane......Born and raised in Florida doesn't mean you become immune to the devastation a hurricane or even a strong tropical storm can bring you, your home and to your family and friends.<br />
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Hurricane Isaac is bearing down on us. Strong winds and torrential rain is expected. We may lose power.<br />
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The only thing "living in the eye of storms" prepares you for is to be prepared. That is what all of us are concentrating on.....making sure we are all prepared as are our families and friends.Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-8908075592402325632012-08-17T00:28:00.001-04:002012-08-17T00:34:24.415-04:00GUEST BLOGGER: Kate Christie<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Queering Austen: The Perfect Storm</span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I came to <span class="yshortcuts">Jane
Austen</span> late in life. Actually, I came to reading the classics a bit
later than most writers probably do. In high school in the ’80s, my experiences
with The Literary Canon were nearly always shadowed by a sense of disconnect I
can now trace not only to the gender, class, and time period of the characters
about whom these assorted novels and plays had been written, but also their
sexuality. The world reflected within the literature we studied at Kalamazoo
Central High School matched the outer world in a very specific way—everyone
appeared to be straight, with barely a hint of same-sex attraction.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As I noted in<a href="http://katechristie.wordpress.com/"> a previous blogpost </a>(http://katechristie.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/between-the-lines-or-why-i-wrote-a-gay-variation-on-pride-and-prejudice/),
queer characters do, of course, exist in Western literature, just as we have
always existed in real, non-literary life. But in most cases, you have to read
between the lines quite literally in order to uncover the same-sex attraction
alluded to by necessarily closeted writers—Willa Cather and Sarah Orne Jewett,
for example. While the act of searching out subcultural cues can be an
entertaining pastime, at some point coded invisibility gets old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">My second grade teacher helpfully
informed my parents that I was queer, but I didn’t know I wanted to be a writer
until the grand age of ten. By the time I started college, I was fed up with
studying novels and stories that didn’t reflect my experience. Rather than
major in English, as I knew I was supposed to do if I wanted to become <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A
Real Writer</span></b>, I opted for Women’s Studies. My chosen department gave
me two important things: a pin for my backpack that read, “I study women in a
major way,” and the chance to take classes in a variety of disciplines, from
Psychology and Political Science to Comparative Literature and History. Lots
and lots of women’s history classes, as it turned out, for that was where my
real interest lay.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In a way, it makes utter sense for a
writer to study history, particularly social history that focuses on the
everyday lives of ordinary people, rather than on politics, rich and powerful
men, or wars. Social historians focus on primary sources: first-hand accounts
like letters, diaries, and autobiographical writings. These are often the only
resources available for a group of people who have historically lacked power or
visibility—such as women and queers.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">After college, I went off into the
world armed with my liberal arts degree and temped my way into a career as a
technical and web content writer. A dozen years out, dissatisfied with my
unlooked-for business career, I decided to go back to school. Only this time, I
actually went for an English degree. I had written a handful of novels by then,
but wasn’t happy with any of them. It was time to study fiction-writing—and
reading—in earnest.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Grad school was eye-opening. The
classics were still as heterosexist as I remembered, and English theory even
more so, but my reading list included Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and
Louise Erdrich, in addition to the usual dead white guys. Reading literary
classics and studying the craft of writing provided me with the technical
skills and, more importantly, the confidence to revise my favorite shelved
novel and send it off to Bella Books. <i>Solstice</i> was accepted in 2009. <i>Leaving
L.A.</i>, written for NaNoWriMo, and <i>Beautiful Game</i>, another formerly
shelved novel, followed. Finally, I was A Real Writer with a website and a blog
and everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">So how did I end up indie publishing
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Pride-Prejudice-Kate-Christie/dp/0985367709/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345177963&sr=8-1&keywords=gay+pride+and+prejudice"><i>Gay P&P</i>?</a> Last year, my wife and I were blessed with the birth of our
daughter, Alex. She is wonderful and fantastic and all the superlatives I knew
I would come up with even before she joined our family. The lack of sleep,
however, along with the crazy schedule of new parenting put a dent in my
writing schedule. I used to write at night, but these days, with parenting and
my day job in academia, I am usually too tired to summon the energy to delve
into any fictional worlds.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">For a while now, I’ve wanted to try
my hand at a queer version of <i>Pride & Prejudice</i>. Last fall, I
decided to take the leap, reasoning that tweaking Austen’s seminal romance
novel would be less time-consuming than writing something new of my own. I was
right—it only took three weeks to produce the first draft, given that I added a
mere 10,000 words to the awesome original.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As a semi-reformed techie, I’ve also
long been intrigued by the idea of coding ebooks. So while waiting for beta
reader response to the first draft of <i>GP&P</i>, I read up on the ePub
format and downloaded template files from CreateSpace, Amazon’s POD print
service. Once I received beta feedback, I revised <i>Gay P&P</i> several
times and, using CreateSpace and a text editor, produced print and ePub
versions of the novel. I used Calibre to convert my ePub file to Kindle, tested
the electronic formats on a variety of devices—Sony eReader, multiple Kindles,
and the B&N Nook—updated my website, and sent <i>Gay P&P</i> live on
March 23, the 13-month anniversary of our daughter’s birth.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Looking back, <i>Gay P&P</i> for
me was the perfect intellectual and artistic storm: Through this one book, I
was able to blend my interests in fiction and history; try my hand at POD
publishing; satisfy my techie side with actual coding and multiple new software
downloads; gratify the amateur graphic artist in me by designing the book
cover; and assume complete creative and editorial control of a writing project
I had been kicking around for years.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Would a publishing house have
accepted <i>Gay P&P</i>? It’s possible. Did I learn oodles and enjoy the
challenge of bringing the book out on my own? Absolutely. Was I terrified in
the moments before, during, and after I sent the book live on Amazon? You
better believe it. But overall, writing and self-publishing <i>Gay P&P</i>
was a journey the rest of my adult life, including my accidental career in the
software industry, just happened to perfectly prepare me for.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Before I close off, let me say thank
you to Patty for offering me a guest spot on her blog. As a fan and writer of
lesbian historical fiction, she was the kind of reader I had in mind when I
first conceived of writing <i>Gay P&P</i>. So when I first saw her
encouraging reviews of my efforts on Amazon and various lesfic lists, I was not
only flattered but happy that someone other than me and a handful of friends
might appreciate the queering of an adored classic of English literature.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A few readers have asked what’s next
in my long-range goal of Queering the Western Literary Canon. Honestly, I can’t
decide between Austen’s <i>Emma</i> and the eminently queer <i>Little Women</i>. I
suppose it’s a hard job, but someone’s got to do it…</span></div>
Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-7043250942665524822012-08-10T10:41:00.002-04:002012-08-10T10:53:40.498-04:00GUEST BLOGGER: Kaye George<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over the last several months, as e-publishing has picked up pace
and become, more and more, a viable way for a writer to get work to readers,
debates have sprung up. There's even been some rancor, as some writers are
bitterly opposed to e-publishing and want only paper books. Other writers sneer
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This is all mixed up with traditional publishing through an agent,
publishing with a small press, and self-publishing. The latter is gaining respectability
because of the greater ease of doing so, and the lure of profits without the
middleman. The small presses are springing up in response to belt-tightening at
the top, the Big Houses. It's all so intermixed.</div>
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To explain, here's my situation:</div>
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(1) I'm currently working on a proposal for my agent (Kim Lionetti
of BookEnds) that she hopes to sell to one of the traditional New York guys,
Berkley. If and when that happens, you are going to hear screams of joy from one
happy camper down here in Hubbard, TX (near Waco, if you've never heard of
it--and I'd be shocked if you had).</div>
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(2) Just yesterday, a small press, Barking Rain Press, accepted
the first novel in my Cressa Carraway series. This book has been a long time
coming and I'm ecstatic that it's seeing the light of day. The tentative
schedule in my contract is awesome and a book should happen very soon. This is my
second experience with a small press. The first one gave me my first shot at
being published in novel form and also enabled my Agatha nomination for that
book. Talk about over the moon!</div>
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(<span style="color: #eeeeee;">3) When I left that first publisher, who had never taken the e-book
rights for some reason, I was able to redo and self-publish the same book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004CFRJ76">(CHOKE)</a>, then self-publish the second in the series<a href="http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004CFRJ76"> (SMOKE)</a>. I intend to get
the third one, BROKE, out in October. This has been terrific fun, being in
complete control of the text and the cover, and being able to check numbers,
raise and lower prices, and give copies away on blogs.</span></div>
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(4) To muddy the waters, I'll bring up my digital-only publisher,
<a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=kaye+george">Untreed Reads.</a> I have some things published with them and some of my
self-published works distributed there. This is enabling my work to reach way
more people than I could get to on my own, especially libraries.</div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">All good experiences! I've refrained from using many, many
exclamation points above, but I was tempted. I'd say every form of publishing
had its downside and its upside. Since I'm so new to all of it, having just
been published now in novels for a bit over a year, it's hard to end up
endorsing or</span> recommending any one way. I know I'll continue to bang on all the
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I'd highly encourage writers who are trying to break in to decide
what would fit for them, then go for it. Self-publishing, of course, gives you
the greatest control and requires the most work. The traditional route gets you
onto book shelves not otherwise accessible. Small press, being the middle
ground, will do you edits and covers for you and gets you onto bookshelves if
you work at it, but doesn't give you complete control.</div>
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I hope these descriptions and explanations are some help to some
fellow writers. If you have any questions for me, I'll be more than happy to
try to answer them. So many writers have helped me along the way!</div>
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<a href="http://www.authorsden.com/kayegeorge">Author's Den</a></div>Patty G. Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243681105512640095noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315945691874053979.post-65717279519212088852012-08-03T14:49:00.001-04:002012-08-03T14:49:09.325-04:00Summer Blogs ContinueHope everyone is enjoying the parade of indie published authors presented here at The Henderson Files for the summer. Next week will welcome a brand new author so please keep checking back weekly all the way through September because I've lined up some exciting authors such as Kaye George, Peg Brantley, Kate Christie, Juli D. Revezzo, Denise M. Hartman, Jolene Naiadis Dawe and more.<br />
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