In September 2023, Publishers Weekly published an article that put in hard numbers the challenges faced by authors trying to make a living from their books. The survey from which the results were gleaned was conducted by the Authors Guild. Of the 5,699 published authors who responded, “their median gross pre-tax income [in 2022] from their books was $2,000.” Adding in other writing...
Romance often gets a bad rap, particularly from folks who think it’s all pornography. What those denigrators don’t consider is that every genre has romance in it. Romance also encompasses every other fiction genre. For instance, when I’m selling books at an event and a prospective reader looks interested in one of the Triune Alliance Brides books, I’ll give them this...
You know the old rhyme: “April showers bring May flowers.” Where I live in southwestern Ohio, April showers bring … mud. Lots of mud. We’ve had a horribly wet spring thus far. Last week, we got about four inches of rain. Ditches and creeks and rivers have flooded their banks. Puddles of water cover large swathes of property. Even the Canada geese are tired of it. And the...
At my first event this year, the Hocking Hills Book Fair in March, a gentleman invited me to participate as a vendor at the 10th Annual Craft Show in Logan, Ohio. My decision to accept that invitation was more along the lines of whimy: “Why not? It can’t hurt.” After all, I had the weekend free, the registration fee was easily afforded, and the folks in southwestern Ohio seem to...