Category: Editing

Taking a closer look at Ken Oder: What works in indie fiction?

Post author By Eric
Post date August 22, 2018
Categories In Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing
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Congratulations to author Ken Oder on the release of his second novel, Old Wounds to the Heart. Not only is it his second novel, but it is the second in his series of Whippoorwill Hollow books. When you take a closer look, it’s clear that Ken’s doing a lot of things right as an indie novelist. Things we […]

The Uncomfortable Silence

Post author By Pamela
Post date July 4, 2018
Categories In Career, Editing, Inspirational, Strategy
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Time for the annual republication of this classic—I’d say “enjoy,” but really I’d rather it make you squirm a little bit. Also, if you find errors in my books, PUH-LEEZE email me at pamela at pamelafaganhutchins dot com. I fix them. And let my beleaguered copyeditor know, so we can both learn from the ones […]

Less is More

I recently spent a month in Russia. I saw a lot of interesting things. In Russia, the rolls of toilet paper don’t have that cardboard tube in the center on which the paper is rolled. It is all paper, and the holder is just a skinny metal shaft that pierces the center and wallah, it […]

Learn how to be a writing, publishing, and marketing rockstar.

Post author By Eric
Post date September 13, 2017
Categories In Art, Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing

Join the SkipJack Online School for courses as inexpensive as the free “5 Simple Tips to Sell a Ton of Books” to $5 individual classes or $50 for the whole writing, publishing, and marketing bundle. Selections below. Taught by the best-selling, Silver Falchion-winning, What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes-writing mystery author, Pamela Fagan Hutchins. Click images […]

Next SkipJack Retreat Announcement!

Post author By Eric
Post date July 20, 2016
Categories In Career, Editing, Inspirational, Writing

October 7-9, 2016 “Just Do It” Writers Retreat (Focus: Finishing, Revising, and Doing It Again) Join award-winning, best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins in the Texas Hill Country—only 1.5 hours from Houston and Austin—for a two-day weekend writer’s retreat. “A breakthrough weekend for me.” David Welling “I learned an enormous amount of useful information in a short […]

Holy Wear-Me-Out Workshop versus Webcasts

Post author By Eric
Post date May 4, 2016
Categories In Art, Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing
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There are some things as an author I always say yes to. Speaking about publishing and promotion to other writers is one of them. But man is it exhausting work! Plus sometimes I’ll randomly start doing or saying something part way through, something unplanned, that later makes me cringed. That’s me in the picture above, […]

Burning Issues . . . ?

Post author By Pamela
Post date February 16, 2016
Categories In Art, Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing
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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 […]

Revise or Die Trying: Tips and Techniques

Post author By Eric
Post date November 18, 2015
Categories In Editing
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Revising Your Drafts As Presented at Comicpalooza 2014, Houston, Texas Thoughts from Moderator Author Pamela Fagan Hutchins Draft v. Rewrite v. Revision v. Editing (Pamela’s working definitions) Draft: Your original work from once upon a time to the end. Rewrite: Your first draft was so bad that you have to redo major elements of […]