Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is our worst ROI ever. So many to choose from! ROI is industry shorthand for Return on Investment. It...

Most of the time, we writers labor in isolation whether writing or working the business side of publishing. Taxes, contracts, negotiations (...

If you’re new to the writing game you may think that all you’ll be doing is writing. And while the writing part is the most essential —no ...

This week at the SFF Seven, we're talking the business side of being a writer.  In our fantasies of being famous and beloved authors, we...

  This Week's Topic: The Business Side -- Time Devoted, etc. How much time do I devote to the business side of being an author? Depends ...

  When I look back on my journey as an author, many hard-fought lessons come to mind. But there's one bit of knowledge I wish I had take...

This week's topic: Minding Your Business:  How I Manage the Financial Side of Being an Author The downside of being an indie author is t...

This week's topic at the SFF Seven is about how we manage our author business. This can get detailed, so I'll cover the basic organi...

 AKA, It Took Me Seven Years To Figure Out I Was Writing The Wrong Niche I grew up on Robin McKinley and Patricia C. Wrede. Tad Williams and...

  Listen. Writing is one thing. Marketing is another thing. Taxes are yet a whole other thing. All of these things happen in different parts...

 If I remember rightly, this topic might have been my suggestion, and I think I suggested it because at the time I imagined it would be easy...

This week at the SFF Seven we're talking about Contractor Best Practices. And already Charissa , James , and KAK have posted great arti...

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. This week's topic at the SFF Seven is our Top 5 Writing Resources. I have...

What is the best and the worst thing about publishing? Best: Getting to share my stories with the world! Worst: Most of the world being un...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "Room for Growth." We're discussing one aspect of our writing or publishing careers - ...

Working with an agent: Would you? Could you? Should you? As an Indie, I don't work with an agent currently, mostly because there's n...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is our most frequent story starter -- idea, milieu, character, theme, what-if, trope, editor request...

Predicting trends in the writing biz? Me? Oh dear, I’m afraid I’m the last person you’ll want to consult for prognostications. I kind of fai...

I just got back from the RT Booklovers Convention in Atlanta. Here's Sonali Dev and Grace Draven , after accepting their awards for...