Why I Never Quote Before I Read...

Jul 20, 2012 by

Why I Never Quote Before I Read

If you ask for one of three services, I can quote you a price right up front. An A&R is always $500, a proposal is always $5,000 (industry standard), and I charge $150 an hour for mentoring or consultation. For anything else, I never quote before I read. And I hear you ask me “why?”. If you meet a ghostwriter or editor who will indeed quote long before they’ve seen your material, you are not dealing with a professional. You are dealing with a (most likely) hungry freelancer. Someone who does not quite know what they’re doing, and is competing with every other freelancer out there. Trivia: If you are gathering prices and mine is the lowest, I take that to mean I need to raise mine. No project can be accurately priced until I’ve looked at...

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Courting The Flame

Jul 10, 2012 by

Courting The Flame

The book came out June 22nd, and I’m a bit late on the ball here, but this is one of the most fascinating romances you will ever read. Diana DeCameron is a deeply compelling writer, and having met with her I must say, an absolutely enchanting woman. If you don’t really read romance, this is still a book to check out – it doesn’t quite fit the formula, and I feel the book’s all the better for it. Check out the synopsis and back cover at Muse It...

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Buh Bye, M.S.

May 16, 2012 by

Buh Bye, M.S.

I’m very excited about an upcoming book by my mentor, Claudia Suzanne, called Buh Bye, M.S., a true-life story of how she overcame and god rid of Multiple Sclerosis. Claudia had chronic-progressive M.S. for most of her life and through a series of seemingly ridiculous circumstances and a lot of argument and determination, she managed to somehow rid her body of the disease entirely. The pre-order page just went up, and I highly suggest you head over and check it out, if for no other reason than that the pre-order comes with a free digital...

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When to write a book, pt 1- Retirement...

Mar 30, 2012 by

When to write a book, pt 1- Retirement

There are key points in life when one of the best things you can do is write a book. The most obvious is, when you retire – you’ve now lived a seriously exciting story, and now you have all that free time on your hands. In a few months, you’ve done all those things you swore to yourself you’d do when you had the time to do them, and now you’re bored. Really, you cannot watch one more daytime soap. It’s going to drive you insane. You want to DO something. You want to be productive again. You want that feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day, and that book of stamps is now getting really, really full. Write a book – tell your story. Your family would love the legacy. Your...

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