Burning Issues . . . ?

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As I sit down to write this morning, I realize that having five baby goats born in the last few days on our place—and one motherless—is going to have to take precedence. Life is like that. Burning issues to be addressed, and sometimes they aren’t the ones we’d planned for. What we thought was burning is going to be have to left to simmer while we deal with a gasoline fire. So today for me it’s tiny creatures, cold weather, running to town for supplies, and bottle feeding. Writing about writing and writing fiction will wait, as will yoga, walking, cooking, and the business of indie publishing. Tomorrow I am driving roundtrip eight hours to speak at a women’s club luncheon for 120 people and swing by a small town library. Monday/yesterday was a holiday here in the US, and I foolishly observed it. I wish I had those hours back—no, not really, because sometimes relaxation (mental, physical) is that burning issue.

By Thursday of this week, my burning issues will have reached bonfire status.

That has me thinking: when I write on this blog, I write about what I think are your burning issues. But I may be throwing water on nothing more than cold, dead ashes.

What topics are burning a hole in you guys? What would you most like to see me write on in upcoming posts? Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about:

  • Amazon quality control?
  • Babelcube for foreign translations?
  • A dive into the February Author Earnings Report from the Data Guy and Hugh Howey?
  • Podcasts?
  • Book Funnel?
  • The ACX stipend program?
  • Building subscribers?
  • Piracy?
  • Hot new promo sites?
  • Driving up Amazon Follows?
  • Using Bookbub to its fullest potential?
  • Working with Overdrive to get e-books in libraries?
  • Making money with ads and affiliate income?
  • Apps by Authors?
  • Video by authors?
  • Voice-to-text and recording your first draft?
  • Editing tools?
  • Who I follow to stay on top of the publishing world?
  • Social media ads?

What am I leaving out? What do you want to read about?

I look forward to hearing from you guys.

Pamela

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, hilarious nonfiction, and  series mysteries, like Katiepamela author portrait & Annalise which includes the bestselling Saving Grace, and Emily which she kicks off with the 2015 WINNER of the USA Best Book Award for Cross Genre Fiction, Heaven to Betsy. She resides deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. Pamela has a passion for great writing and smart authorpreneurship as well as long hikes with her hunky husband and pack of rescue dogs, traveling in the Bookmobile, and experimenting with her Keurig. She also leaps medium-tall buildings in a single bound (if she gets a good running start).

 

4 thoughts on “Burning Issues . . . ?”

  1. Marcy Mason McKay

    I’m interested in every topic you shared there. I’m also curious about:

    1) narrators for ACX. Everyone we’re interested in hasn’t responded, and those who aren’t right for my book are all we hear from. What do I do to tackle this with fresh eyes? 2) If you haven’t already, I’d like you to share your secrets for such fast plotting. I know a few things in my book starting out, but about 75% I don’t know. I MUST get better at plotting beforehand, but my ideas don’t seem to come until I start writing. What questions do you ask yourself? Do you just use an Excel spreadsheet, etc.

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