Christine Rose

Author: Christine Rose

  • I’m A Writer.

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    “I’m A Writer.” Guest essay by Maxwell Cynn to appear in the Author Essay section my forthcoming book Publishing and Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author. —-{—-{@ “I’m a writer.” A lot of people say that. But I don’t write to make a living, I live to write. It’s like eating, sleeping, or sex. Being…

  • eReading Trends

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    Very interesting, but not surprising. The ABCs of E-Reading Snippet: “A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of those surveyed, 58% said they read about the same as before while 2% said they read less than…

  • Expect Superman: Working the SFF Cons

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    You’ve just gotten your first speculative fiction work published, and now you need to get it out there to potential readers. Whether you are self-published, published by an independent press, or published in New York, marketing your book is up to you. Since you are a writer of speculative fiction (SciFi/Fantasy, or SFF), you have…

  • Careful, You’ll End Up in my Novel

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    Writers write what they know. Even if your story is set in a fictional, futuristic dystopian society, the characters’ behaviors and traits reflect what the writer knows. What the writer has experienced or witnessed. This past Christmas, my mother gifted me with a tea towel that reads “Careful, You’ll End Up In My Novel,” and…

  • What Joss Whedon Taught Me About Storytelling

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    In 2009, Colleen Lindsay wrote a blog about what Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse could teach novelists about hooking readers. Good article. Really true, too. The art of storytelling has changed over the years. Our attention spans, as a collective audience, have shortened. Colleen’s post is mostly about how Dollhouse took a few episodes (like seven, according…

  • Top 10 Twitter Resources

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    Since I’ve discovered Twitter, my eyes have become even more sunken from staring at the computer screen. Because, even when I’m not in my home office working online, I’m Tweeting from a car while stopped at a traffic light or Tweeting in the middle of a conversation. I Tweet while I watch TV. One of…

  • Welcome Friends!

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    Welcome friends to my new blog. I’m branching off from the C&E Blog to focus my efforts on a soon-to-be-released nonfiction book to help emerging authors decide on the best publishing avenue and marketing strategy for their book(s). With this blog, I hope to post three times a week on the publishing industry, marketing/social networking,…

  • In Loving Memory…

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    Yesterday an amazing and kind man left this earth. Benjamin Somerlot was only 28 years old. He bravely fought a rare and painful form of bone cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma for the past two years. The last few months of this life were spent in excruciating pain, but he never complained. He was always more…

  • Happy <3 Day!

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    Twelve years ago today Ethan proposed to me. He stood in the tiny kitchen in our little cabin in the woods of Northern California and asked me to be his wife. He presented me with this teeny tiny emerald ring. All nervous, he was so adorable. I, of course, said yes. Sometimes I look back…

  • Top 100 Twitter Authors!

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    <reminiscing…I made this list in May 2009> I made the list! 😀 Mashable, the social media guide, published a list of the top 100 authors on Twitter last Friday, and I’m on it! That’s right! I’m on the same list as Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, Meg Cabot, & Wil Wheton. That’s just totally fricken cool.