As with any indie writer, I’m always working on ways to make my work visible and discoverable. As mentioned in some previous posts, Let’s Get Visible and Write Publish Repeat had a great many good ideas for doing this. My goal is and was to implement those ideas that resonated with me. Being a 3 […]
Two Dirt Roads, the Dalai Lama, and Me
So this is what I would have wanted the name of my blog post to be: “In Which the New York Times Associates Douglas Preston with the Dalai Lama, High-Speed internet, and Henry David Thoreau All In One Sentence.” But it’s too long, so I went with what I went with. And here’s what it […]
Mail Chimp: Start Small and Grab the Long Tail
I recently looked at my writing career, and asked myself, well, how is it going? I told myself that it was going pretty good. That I’d published the book that I set out to publish and that, all things considered, is success. But then, I had this feeling that I ought to be doing more. […]
The Preston Petition vs. the Indie Petition
This is not a legal document, and I am in no way attached to anything legal. But I like the sound of it, petition vs. petition, as in Kramer vs. Kramer, which stars Meryl Streep, who I adore. Anyway, as you may or may not know, there has been a business discussion between Hachette and […]
Vituperative Me and Petition Supporting Readers and Amazon
I’m feeling vituperative. During recent weeks, there has been a discussion – oh, okay, let’s call it a battle, for the public’s opinion on the business discussion between Amazon and Hachette. For a long time, I’ve stayed out of it because I thought that things would level out and the discussion would remain civil. Boy was […]
Indie Publishing and The Passive Voice
Of course, when I say “passive voice,” I don’t mean a writing style, in which the subject takes a back seat or is completely unknown. You know, like those statements Republicans make when they say that “bombs were dropped on some faraway country…” as if the bombs were dropped by someone or something not under […]