Category: Writing

Preorders are an *enormous* help to authors. Why? Because they’re lumped together with first week sales.  And that total is a publisher’s first and primary indication of whether a book is a commercial success.  Success affects things like whether a series is continued, and whether the publisher thinks the author is a good bet for future books.  (Sales aren’t the[…]

I absolutely love this quote by MacArthur Genius Grant winner Terasita Fernandez: In those moments when you feel discouraged or lost in the studio, or when you experience rejection, rest completely assured that what you don’t know about something is also a form of knowledge, though much harder to understand. In many ways, making art[…]