Archive for April, 2009

I picked this up from Scribe, who picked it up from Benjamin Solah, who grabbed it from Bites… You can follow it back further yourself if you’re really interested. I thought it was worth a look as it’s a bit different from the others I’ve put on here up till now. Consider yourself tagged...
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Today is Unite For Hunger And Hope day. It’s a simple concept that bloggers everywhere post about global hunger to raise awareness of the situation. From the Unite website, here are a few facts and figures: • Right now, more than 500 million people are living in “absolute poverty” and more than 15 million...
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I’m a big fan of using words in powerful ways. I suppose that’s a given, seeing that I’m a writer. But regardless, when people are clever with words and language and create something more than it first appears to be I always applaud the effort. This is a great example, originally created for the...
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I picked this little gem up from S F Signal, one of my all time favourite blogs. If you’re a sci-fi fan you should definitely add them to your RSS feed. This particular piece is something that has always fascinated me, for its brevity and completeness. Very few things are truly brief and complete,...
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Today we have a guest blog from my friend Avery K Tingle. I met Avery through the ever expanding virtual world of writer related social networks and was impressed by the broad scope of his work. He’s also a top bloke. Here he talks about what it is to be a freelance writer, especially...
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There are so many online places for book marketing and book networking these days. Places like Goodreads and LibraryThing have been around a while now, Amazon tries to be way more than just a book shop and so on. I’ve recently stumbled across another one called fReado. Rather than trying to be a place...
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Rejection is an inevitable part of the writing life. If you’re not good with rejection, you should never even entertain the idea of being a writer. It never ceases to amaze me just how belligerent some people get about rejections. And often, the most vocal are usually the worst writers, refusing to learn from...
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G’day everyone. I know that things have been a bit quiet around here lately, and for that I apologise. I recently celebrated ten years of marriage with my wife and we had a huge party, a big Renewal of Vows ceremony and associated revelry. I had visitors from interstate and, at one point, ten...
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I picked this up over at the Literary Escapism blog. As things have been so quiet here at The Word lately, I thought it might be an interesting interlude until I get my life back. (For those that don’t know, my wife and I recently celebrated ten years of marriage with a big party...
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For today’s guest blog I’m very happy to present my good friend David B Coe. David is a trad published author (through Tor) and shares here his thoughts about marketing a novel, however it’s published. Hi. I’m David B. Coe, an American fantasy author. I’ve published ten novels, including the LonTobyn Chronicle (a trilogy),...
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