by Penny Freeman | Oct 18, 2013 | Sound-off Saturday
BY SCOTT TARBET All y’all ain’t from around here, are ya? Bless your hearts. Boy says he gets letters on that shiny little doo-hicky of his. And can send ‘em too. So I asked could I say howdy and set somethin’ straight. He’s writin’ it all this down. With his thumbs....
by Penny Freeman | Jul 27, 2013 | Sound-off Saturday, Writing
BY AUTHOR F. M. LONGO Why a Press Release? One of the most valuable tools for generating publicity is the press release. The press release is most useful to alert the press on happenings that they may not be aware of through normal newsgathering methods, although, you...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 20, 2013 | Sound-off Saturday
BY AUTHOR AARON SIKES My last Sound-off Saturday was about Facebook and why I left it, both personally and professionally. This week, I’d like to get a discussion going around the use of Twitter, a form of social media I still use and find quite helpful to...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 13, 2013 | Sound-off Saturday
BY AUTHOR AARON SIKES I officially announced my intention to depart from Facebook about two weeks ago. As a new author, with only three publication credits to my name, this probably sounds foolhardy. Maybe it is. There’s certainly something to be said for a room...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 15, 2013 | Sound-off Saturday, Writing
For the record, I have nothing against self-publishing, at least in principle. On the other hand, I do have a problem with oh-so-many self-published books. Going by the ones I’ve sampled myself, most of them seem to be pretty awful. I self-published my first...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 8, 2013 | Sound-off Saturday, Writing
So, I’ve been threatening for weeks to write about the forms and procedures that The X editorial staff uses for analyzing incoming manuscripts, and for structuring and strengthening projects they decide to take on. But it’s a good thing I held off until now, because...
