Author: JRVogt

The holiday vacation period is still in full swing. I’m expecting bare-bones office staffs and plenty of people still roasting their vacation days over a bonfire like so many burnt marshmallows. So let’s start the back-to-blogging pace a bit slow. Nothing too heavy. Fat-free eggnog and maybe a few candy…

Made it back to see the family and girlfriend, though I literally walked off one flight and ran to the other minutes before the doors closed. Got in safe…of course the Denver airport is incredibly crowded, and there were several hundred people around the baggage carousel, so my luggage is…

What could put it better than this? As we go into the holidays, I hope everyone makes it home to see family and friends. Don’t forget to take a book on the plane ride/train ride/road trip. A good book makes it go by so quickly. Or, for the writerly inclined…

Here is a last pair of links focused on ways to promote your book, your authorship, and getting people out there to sit up and go, “Hey…might be something worth reading here.” Starting with:Book Promotion 101– Now, this is a paid site if you want their full consulting services and…

For nothing other than Oh-lookee! appeal, here is the link for a few pictures of the upcoming Stardust movie. I can’t wait. On to your regularly schedule blogging. We’re on a publicity kick here, folks. At least, I am. For some reason, I love researching this kind of thing. So…

While sifting through the archives of several blogs that I now frequent, I came across a number of postings that deliberated the many ways an author can go about promoting their upcoming book. Some of these posts tell horror stories about book signings where the author showed up to find…

Working in the publishing industry myself (albeit for not yet six months now) I have come to see at least a few seasonal patterns. There are certain times during the year that people just aren’t going to be around the office that much, or, even if they are, they’re going…

What do you do when you aren’t writing? How do you pay the bills? Is your job something you do just to support your writing habit or is writing what you do to escape from the daily spin? I’m extremely grateful for the job I have. I work in publishing,…

Here’s just a fun little side story for the day. I woke up this morning to a phone call from a Capital One credit card rep. Now, I know how much everyone loves hearing from credit card companies and banks, especially since most of the time they are calling to…

Here’s my theory. Actually, it’s less a theory and more an observation from my own habits. Reading and writing are cyclical, and they orbit around what is going in one’s life at the time. Maybe this is obvious to most people and I’m just now beginning to realize it. However,…