Tag: independent writing
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Pondering in 2018

Happy New Year, all! I hope that everyone had a fun and happy holiday. Kicking off the 2018 I decided that I wanted to put out one of my posts where I ponder something through writing it out. Specifically I wanted to ponder the idea of books and traditional publishing and the seeming difficulty that…
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2017 Comes to an End

It is the last day in 2017 and the first day my family and I are back in Illinois. For Christmas we had traveled to see our families back in Philadelphia, where we are from. We drove, which after yesterday’s travels of snow through the mountains of Pennsylvania and then white-out conditions through Ohio, was…
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An Impromptu Vacation… from Writing
Until today I was off work leading into and through the weekend. It was a planned few days off where I was going to spend constructive and quality time with my wife. But then something else happened: I decided to ignore my side jobs, writing and blogging. Last Thursday I posted my weekly poem, but…
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Hey, Publishers! You’re doing it wrong.
Yes. It’s me. I am that pesky, no-named, unknown, little independent writer. I am that beligerant sonofabitch who believed myself too good for the system and got in bed with Amazon in order to sell my crappy books. Yes. It’s me. I am here to tell you that you are doing it wrong. Far be…