World Book Day[1] or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright. In the United Kingdom, the day is recognized on the […]
Read More Happy World Book Day!So when I revamped my Patreon, I decided that I would charge by creation instead of by month, and that I would highlight a different featured project every month so that my Patrons would know what they were getting for their buck. I promised I would post the new featured project on the 20th of […]
Read More May’s Featured Patreon Project: A Dystopian Utopia!I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo this year, and I’m currently working on four different projects. So far I’m actually doing pretty well. I was originally not going to do the contest entry and instead I was going to do my anthology story, but I’ve finished it already. Here’s my list of projects: Goal: 20,000 words. I’m […]
Read More Camp NaNoWriMo ProjectsWorth considering. By their standards, I’m a slow writer! I first blogged about the plight of slow writers back in 2014, at the height of the indie publishing boom. All the indie superstar gurus were telling writers to grind out ebooks as fast as they could type to take advantage of the “Kindle Gold Rush”. […]
Read More Are Slow Writers Doomed to Fail in the Digital Age?KAMERON HURLEY’S SCIENCE fiction novel The Stars Are Legion almost never saw the inside of a book store. She came up with the idea in 2012, but she and her agent didn’t think anyone would buy it. A “big gory political space opera” wasn’t something flying off the shelves at the time. But two years […]
Read More Space Opera Fiction is Back & Better Than Ever!Check it out! Showdown was featured as one of the New Releases on the fantastic GoIndieNow! vlog! Lots of other great stuff featured as well; I was pleased to participate in Andy Peloquin’s takeover for the release of Gateway to the Past just this past weekend. The new releases for books start at about 22:30 in […]
Read More Go Indie Now! New ReleasesI was on the Pagan Musings Podcast last night to talk about my new book, publishing, and how socialization isn’t the devil. If you want to listen, the link is here. They also played a couple of my songs, and provided handy links where you can find all the projects, articles, and websites we talked […]
Read More Pagan Musings Podcast and Indie Authors CareI have had the pleasure of being on the Pagan Musings Podcast before, when The Witch’s Eight Paths of Power first came out. Now I’m going to be on again to talk about the Wyrd West Chronicles and my fiction writing, probably some of the comparisons between writing fiction and non-fiction, and the differences between indie […]
Read More I’m Going to Be on the Pagan Musings Podcast This Sunday!How to Read Like A Published Writer Written by Caitlin Jans | February 27, 2017 I was a reader long before I was a writer. As a child I fell in love with books like The Balloon Tree, A Wrinkle in Time and Ramona Quimby, Age 8. That love of books has never left me. […]
Read More Read Like a WriterFor a self-published author, Digital Rights Management sounds so sensible, doesn’t it? Many e-publishing platforms allow authors to opt in for DRM, which is presented as a technology that prevents people from copying and sharing your work where it hasn’t been authorized. It claims to protect your copyright for you; and who wouldn’t want that? […]
Read More 8 Reasons Why This Author is Opting OUT of Digital Rights Management
