Browsing Archive: June, 2010
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Tuesday, June 29, 2010,
Analyzing book sales is like reading tea leaves... you can fool
yourself into believing you know something, but, in truth, you've just
got a pile of damp darjeeling. Still, that's what writers do.
In the absence of real data (my royalty statements run nearly a year
behind actual sales), we pore over what little data we can find and
pretend to know what it means. Anyone who has watched amazon rankings
jump a million spots in an hour (based on perhaps as few as two or
three book sales) will un... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Tuesday, June 22, 2010,
I'd like to introduce you to my friend and colleague, Alice Duncan. That's Alice, hiding behind the funny papers.  When I asked Alice for a brief bio to use with today's post, this is what she sent me - Award-winning
author Alice Duncan lives with a herd of wild dachshunds (enriched from
time to time with fosterees from New Mexico Dachshund Rescue) in
Roswell, New Mexico. She's not a UFO enthusiast; she's in Roswell
because her mother's family settled there fifty years before the aliens
cra...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Saturday, June 19, 2010,
In response to my recent post, Tips for Aspiring Authors, AmeSoeur left me the following comment - "I
wonder if you take requests on blogs about writing professionally,
haha. I'm currently stuck on the editing process, and you seem to know
what you're talking about, so I was wondering if you could give some
advice in that regard?" I can do better than that. So watch this space. And
amesouer is certainly not the only writer on xanga struggling to edit a
manuscript. You know who you are. So ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Tuesday, June 15, 2010,
Yesterday, I suggested that if you live in California, Nevada, or Utah, in Wyoming, Nebraska or Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania or New Jersey, you should get yourself to Route 80, and point your car east, in time for Deadly Ink. Of course, not everyone who reads my blog lives near Interstate 80. Some of you live near an airport. So, if you prefer air travel to long-distance car trips, you should know that it's National Crime Fiction Week in the United Kingdom, "a nationwide cel... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Monday, June 14, 2010,
Interstate 80starts in San Francisco and runs east through California, Nevada, Utah,
Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania
before coming to an end in Ridgefield Park NJ, at the intersection of
Interstate 95, as it approaches the Hudson River, the George Washington
Bridge and NYC, nearly 3000 miles of transcontinental highway, America
on wheels. In my twenties, I could hitchhike the full length of
Interstate 80 in 4 days, although, to be honest, I preferred the
south... Continue reading ...
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Folks tell me that my blog address is cumbersome, that it's hard to spell and even harder to remember. They may very well be right. Although it's derived from the title of my first mystery, even I can recognize that it's not a user-friendly address. So this page will contain selected entries from that blog. Each entry will include a link back to the original post. Use the link to read comments about the post and to add your own.
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