The Rejection Letter
I should entitle this "No Rejection Letter." Lots of thought went into my decision to write some books specifically aimed at self-publishing. Mainly, I'm not happy about how publishing houses treat...
View ArticleMarketing 101
The challenge for independent publishing is how to manage independent marketing. I find myself so busy trying to get Waking Up Dead: An Endless Mountains Ghost Story into money making mode that writing...
View ArticleStill Wanting a Glass Slipper
It's all well and good to be grown up and practical and realistic and individual and independent and self-actualized. And then sometimes one can't help but look at all of those fairy tales that didn't...
View ArticleFINDING JOHNNY
Whenever I do a reading or signing, I make the comment that my ghosts are real, but the story is fiction. Someone tells me about a ghost they have encountered -- who, what, when, and where. I go back...
View ArticleThe Grave Marker
I went to the cemetery to see if I could find Johnny. I read in the History of New Milford that during the Civil War and the years of the great fires, there were many, many people buried without their...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Dictating and Being Dictated To: Merry Christmas
To all of you who are sad that you can't say "Merry Christmas": You can; you just don't have the right to insist that I say it, too. Okay? Actually, I say Merry Christmas at Christmas and Happy New...
View ArticleWriting Romance
I'm acting as editor for writer of Historical Romance, and was dismayed to see that she uses the old "can't control himself" excuse for grabbing someone and kissing them. The sex scene is also...
View ArticleEndless Mountains Ghosts: The Real Stories
This is a rough draft of a new ghost story I was told. It's a little heart-breaking and a lot heart-warming. It is told in first person as all of these will be to protect the individuals generous...
View ArticleThere's More to Self-Publishing than Uploading Files
The Novice Independent-Publisher Insights from Regge Episale Waking Up Dead: An Endless Mountains Ghost Story The Boy In the Toy Room: An Endless Mountains Ghost Story I was asked to write...
View ArticleI Wish I'd Been a Better Mother
"I wish I'd been a better mother. I wish I'd been as good a mother as I was a grandmother." Those were some of the last words my own mother said to me. "Can you ever forgive me?" she asked. I wonder if...
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