Category: On Publishing
Coping with Pain through Writing
My earliest childhood memories are of being in pain. I have lived with chronic pain all of my life. No one really understood why it was so bad until a few years ago, when the genetics department at a major university took me on as a patient and determined that I have an unspecified, diffuse connective […]
The Writing and Publishing Process
For many years I have written on and off. Writing is a large part of my life and I simply couldn’t live without being able to get all my thoughts and ideas down and making sense of them all. Two years ago, I decided it was time to take my writing to a more serious […]
Are you a Rabbit or a Mole when it comes to Writing?
As a writer, are you a Mole or a Rabbit in publishing’s shifting landscape? Every time I read a publishing blog there seems to be another change and more uncertainty. People on Twitter ask each other: What does the future hold for writers? – The answer is anybody’s guess. It’s chaotic out there: old pastures […]
From I.T. to I.T. Girl
There’s a question writers ask themselves: if no one was to read your work, would you still write? The answer for me is no. I write because I want to communicate something. The emergence of writing in me was slow and it came by accident. I was restless in my job and trying to think of a […]
Elephants Dancing in My Tummy: And The Angels Cried
I have a herd of elephants dancing in my tummy; my head aches and I am intermittently overcome by a wave of panic which starts at my toes and oozes from my fingers as I type; I’m not sleeping too well either. I’m not ill or on drugs – unless you count the medicinal Pinot […]
A Turning Point in My Life
I had a wonderful childhood, and leading up to the present, well, like everyone, I have had my share of ups and downs. But as I will tell anyone and everyone who’ll listen, I feel that I experienced a turning point in my life only a few years ago. I awoke one morning, on a birthday, with […]
Three Books in One Year
I have self-published three books this year. And in February, 2013 I intend to release one more. If you’d have told me this at the start of the 2012, I probably wouldn’t have believed you, but that was before I realized the process was so quick, simple, and inexpensive – compared to my expectations, that is. […]
A Teenager’s Life as an Author
Hello! I am Patricia Carrigan; you can call me Patti. Here is a little information about me. I am 18 years old, and I graduated from high school a couple of months ago. I’m enrolled in a nearby college, and I’m a fashion consultant at a junior teen fashion store, as well as a published […]
My First Publishing Contract
It’s every writer’s dream to receive an email that says, “We would really love to publish your book.” Well, it’s finally happened for me. I expected myself to jump up and down on the lounge suite like Tom Cruise on the Oprah Winfrey Show, but I didn’t. I just read over the email a few times to make […]
When to Hire a Freelance Editor
So you’ve finished a book, and now you’re ready to take it to market—or are you? The publishing world is evolving so quickly that it’s not always easy to know where to start. I know excellent writers who are finding it difficult to secure representation in today’s publishing environment. The alternative may be to self-publish, […]
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