I recently attended a “sit-up-and-take-notice” workshop about how to produce, distribute and sell your work in the evolving e-world given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords. His opener jolted my writer self like a sip of vanilla latte on a cold, groggy morning. “There’s never been a better time to be an author.” Okaaaay, I thought, as though he had just told […]
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Mark Coker/Negative Virality/This Book Sucks!
I attended an E-book publishing workshop given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords. In it, he spoke of Negative Virality. According to the online Oxford Dictionary, virality means the tendency of an image, video, or piece of information to be circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another; the quality or […]
Niche-Specific Audience/My Ideal Reader
I’ve heard that writers need to find a niche and then directly address a niche-specific audience. But in order to do so, the writer must first figure out who that audience is. Each of us, of course, hopes our work will enjoy universal appeal, when more than likely it will attract one segment of the […]
Visionary Fiction by Free Association
Defining visionary fiction is tough, because the genre means different things to different writers. So in coming up with my own definition, I used a technique often used in psychoanalysis called: Free association As a result, I came up with the following words and phrases: open door entry into the between not a place, but an attitude openness […]
Visionary Fiction Alliance Blog Blessings
What is Visionary Fiction Alliance’s purpose? “Like the Visionary Fiction genre itself, this site is a cooperative work-in-progress designed to respond to the needs and wishes of VF authors and readers. Light on advertising and self-promotion, we strive to provide relevant craft and marketing ideas, notice of events of interest, mutual support, and open discussion.” What is […]
Visionary Fiction Alliance
I’m proud to announce that I’ve joined a group of talented writers in starting a website aimed at raising awareness of and interest in the genre of visionary fiction. What is Visionary Fiction? Though visionary fiction has been around for a long time – think shaman stories of ancient times – most agents, publishers and big […]
