Interesting Authors Blog

I Want to See My Title in Book Stores

You know, unless you are going to go the “traditional” publishing route with Hollywood Accounting which could bury 90+% of your royalties so it can line the pockets of upper management and their families . . . it’s the worst dream anyone can have. Here is a bit of math…

Roland HughesJune 19, 2016September 3, 2017

Experience Publishing

Beware of Book Pricing Scams

There is currently a massive book pricing scam going on industry wide. The bulk of this problem can be laid squarely at the feet of Amazon.com’s lack-of-management team. Other selling services have now figured out how to exploit this ethic-less on-line retailer world with various automated pricing scams of their…

Roland HughesJune 14, 2016February 8, 2021

Russian Dolls Stories

Is Sending Money by U.S. Post Office Illegal?

This question comes up a lot. I hear all kinds of people nattering about this at various times. I’ve even had a client tell me this straight faced and point out one guy who was currently in our building who went to jail for it. Well . . . yes,…

Roland HughesJune 13, 2016September 2, 2017

Publishing Reviews Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Going Back in Time

No, I’m not going to tell you there is some secret government program which has achieved time travel. The fact we are all alive means they haven’t. If they are incompetent enough to be an elected official now and they can’t fix anything the last thing anyone wants is them…

Roland HughesJune 7, 2016September 1, 2017

Technology

FocusWriter

One of the more useful editors for creating blog posts, roughing out a chapter, etc. is a cross platform word processor called FocusWriter. Several times per year this becomes my favorite tool for getting things done. It has a wonderful “distraction free” mode which takes up the full screen presenting…

Roland HughesJune 6, 2016October 28, 2020

Stories

Your Little Pump That Can’t Suck

In farm country things tend to get used forever as long as they still “kinda” work. Oh, people will trade tractors and combines off just to drive something new much like city folk do with cars. When it comes to things like chemical pumps and hay elevators as long as…

Roland HughesJune 5, 2016August 22, 2017

Fiction Stories

Dear Agatha

You will continually find me posting on here about sub plots of movies and television shows. I will continually tell you that some of the best writing today is happening for the screen. Yes we have far too many fake reality shows polluting the air waves, but, it appears to…

Roland HughesJune 5, 2016September 1, 2017