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At SQL Saturday Orlando, another speaker and I got into a discussion about the transition from writing to publishing. He went to my blog looking for SQL Server stuff and got confused when he found all the literary references ( Read more... )

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I am on my way home from the Cascade Writers Workshop in Portland, Oregon and am now suffering the cascade effect. Okay, I admit “cascade effect” is just a fun play on words the grey mush in my skull thinks is funny because ( Read more... )

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Networking. Self-Promotion. Business skills. Talent. Which of these does a writer need to make it in the publishing industry? All of them.

If anyone ever tells you that a writing career only requires talent, feel free to ( Read more... )

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I’ve been a bad girl. Too much work, not enough posting on my blog. For those who are following these posts, I’ve been involved in a lot of stuff lately. Two weekends ago, I attended the Baltimore Book Festival. Met a lot of ( Read more... )

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“Burning bridges” is a slang term that (as far as I know) dates back to the practice of an army burning a bridge so the enemy could not cross over a river and attack. That act also ensured that the army itself could not ( Read more... )

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Tonight I logged onto Writers Chatroom tonight to discuss 25 tips for gaining blog traffic with other writers. Audrey Shaffer, the moderator of Writers Chatroom, does an excellent job of providing content and discussion for writers of all ( Read more... )

Networking is one of my "hot button" issues. I'm a big advocate of networking, primarily because it has gotten me more work than I know how to deal with. I've previously posted networking advice and a blurb on why networking works. Now I'm going to talk about another aspect, negative networking.

I don't know if anyone has ever used the term negative ( Read more... )

Last year, I made lots of friends at the Nebula Awards. This year too. Getting together to just hang around in a no pressure atmosphere, talk about our pets, our favorite drink (or food), and how the air quality in D.C. sucks (no offense, but it nearly killed me). Last year I talked to a lot of people about these things, handed out a lot of ( Read more... )

I've seen a lot of requests, and advice, for networking at conventions and conferences. I thought I'd add my own two cents to the pile ( Read more... )

What cannot be taxed, cannot be appraised, and yet has unparalleled value ( Read more... )