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This year’s plan

January 29, 2014 Mathias Leave a comment

So, 2014 is underway.  Time to layout the plan for this year.

As of right now, I am still shopping my manuscript for Under the Darkened Moon around.  Been a little lazy about it, and will keep chugging away.  Nothing’s changing on this front.

I now have 3 short stories that, I think, and so does my focus group, are ready to go out into the world.  These will be submitted to various contests and publications throughout 2014 to see if they can garner any attention.

Hopefully one or more of them will be noticed and published.  If not, I plan on releasing them in various formats for download.  Plans are right now that they will be free, in preparation for what might be the need to self-publish my manuscript at some point in the furture.

I’ll keep everyone appraised of my progress on these plans as the year unfolds.  Wish me luck!

Categories: Getting Published, Short Stories Tags: Contests, Darkened Moon, Focus Group, Furture, Manuscript, Self Publish, Shopping, Short Stories

A Long Journey Concludes

December 16, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

Yesterday, something wonderful happened.  I completed the manuscript for Under the Darkened Moon.

It’s been a wonderful journey, considering that it is the first novel I have been able to completed in darn near twenty years of attempting to write a novel.  I’ve gone through a whole range of emotions from joy (at having done it), to sorrow (at realizing my characters, my children, are all grown up), to fear (at realizing that now the hard part begins as I search for an agent and publisher).

The whole experience of writing this story began last year on July 18th and has spanned, officially, 517 days (44,668,800 seconds) of my life. It’s hard to believe, but I’ve spent over 2,000 hours either directly working on this story or thinking about it.  That’s a lot of time.
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Categories: "Dark Moon", Editing, Getting Published, Novels, Projects, Publishers And Agents, Review Groups, The Writing Process Tags: Darkened Moon, Daunting Task, Dave Bowman, Gals, Henry Gale, Heywood Floyd, Karen Paul, Kip, Knots, Literary Agents, Long Journey, Lorne, Loving Wife, Manuscript, New Journey, Paul Henry, Query Letter, Rejection, Sorrow, Spending Time, Way Of The World, Wonderful Journey

Why You Probably SHOULD Care About Bad Reviews

November 12, 2012 Mathias 6 comments

I see a lot of authors (generally those who are self-publishing) dismiss bad reviews of their books.  Google the topic and there is no end to the number of budding authors explaining why they don’t care if someone gives their book a bad review.  Or, even worse, why they don’t even read what other people say about their book.

Well, I say that’s a bad attitude.  I think it is a dangerous stance to take where you choose to shelter yourself from criticism.  This is especially true, I believe, for indy, self-published authors.  I think you SHOULD care about bad reviews.

Look, unless you are Stephen King or J.K. Rowling, and going to sell books no matter what you write, then not caring about criticism only hurts you.  Face it, only once you are at a point in your career where you actually don’t have to worry about the critics, because you’ve proven yourself as someone who knows how to write and sell books, should you even remotely consider no longer worrying about the critics.  Frankly, most my fellow authors out there whom I have seen state they don’t care about their critics are not at this point in their careers yet.  In fact, most of them are FAR, FAR, FAR from that point. Read more…

Categories: Book Reviews, Editing, General Things, Getting Published, Review Groups, Selling Books, The Writing Process Tags: Bad Attitude, Career, Day Job, Face, Fellow Authors, Google, J K Rowling, Legitimate Criticism, Love, Negative Feedback, Negativity, People, Publishing Books, Punches, Self Publishing, Sell Books, Stephen King
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