This is a fast post because this is really just a continuation of the previous post, but I do want to ask this:
A cover should reflect the book so a buyer knows what she or he is buying. In anything.
We already have a shorthand of kind because publishers put the same kind of cover [...]

There’s a huge hoo-ra (not Hoo Ha) going on right now about rape in romance, spurred by a book whose title I will not mention because I’ve never read it and neither, I think, have a lot of the people who are outraged by it. What they’re outraged by is the apparent imminent [...]

People keep asking for author photos. Can’t my work just speak for itself? Evidently not.
But I take a really awful photo. Or maybe I look like that and I’m just deep in denial. When I got my new computer (I loooooooooooove my new computer) it came with the iSight camera built [...]

This is probably going to be a huge Duh for the rest of you but I finally figured out the problem with Zelda’s negative motivation: It’s negative.
As you may remember, Zelda didn’t want to go to Rosemore, but Rose lures her in and then keeps her with the promise of helping her find [...]

Nothing drives me crazier than author quotes. I hate asking for them, and probably 95% of the people I have asked for them have ignored me completely, which serves me right because I don’t give quotes to 95% of the people who ask me for them. The whole practice is a mass of desperation and [...]

Authors are cover-crazed because we know the dirty little secret of publishing: The reason most people pick up a book and buy it is the cover. After awhile, you may build enough of a name that people will pick up your book no matter what, but even then, a bad cover may make readers think [...]

Okay, I said I wasn’t going to respond to posts, but enough is enough.
I HANDED YOU MORE THAN ONE BEER, YOU INGRATE. In fact, I BOUGHT the beer.
Jeez.
And I was looking at a November calendar when I dated the blog so now it’s fixed.
And for those of you clamoring for more pictures of Bob, [...]

. . . for a commercial announcement. Don’t Look Down will be on sale April 4.
Yes, I know we said May, but St. Martin’s moved it to April. That may seem like a long time to you, but trust me, it’s going to be here in a flash. We now have a cover [...]

Usually I craft these blog entries, rewrite them, try to hone them so they make sense (except for the Trudy entries) but I’m behind so I’m just going to zap this one out so the people who are chanting in the background—yes, there are people on the JCF list who are typing “Blog, blog, blog,” [...]

You know, the business part of writing never fails to amaze me. There’s so much to it, even if you’re not insane about it the way I am. My latest insanity, which I have thoughtfully inflicted on Bob, is branding the collaboration so we can sell it just like General Mills sells Cherrios. Or whoever [...]