by Cathy Yardley | Business, Writing Life
Recently, literary fiction author Ted Heller wrote an article for Salon called “The future is no fun: Self-publishing is the worst.” In it, he describes his misadventures in self-publishing his latest novel, specifically the difficulty he’s had...
by Cathy Yardley | Business, Promotion
I read two interesting blogs recently. First, “Are Writers Badgering Readers?” over at Huff Post Books. That post was a response to Book Riot’s “Readers Don’t Owe Authors Sh*t.” The two seemed to encapsulate the writer’s...
by Cathy Yardley | Business
My son, a.k.a The Boy, does not always want to finish his meals. I don’t force him to clean his plate. That said, there’s one rule: no veggies, no dessert. If you’re not hungry enough to eat your veggies, you don’t get sweets. He will...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
Deep in deadline hell, peeps. For me, this usually means a scattered attention span, a lot of mumbling under my breath — and a hair trigger around things that seem trivial, almost stupid. So yesterday, I tripped on one of these triggers. Thankfully, after a few...
by Cathy Yardley | Craft, Uncategorized
Without getting too terribly esoteric, I’ve been seeing a lot of holographic patterning in my Year of Cruise. To display both my geek and hippy-dippy tendencies, I mean “holographic” as in “whole in every part.” If you cut a hologram in...
