Author name: R. B. Wood

I am a writer! This might seem self-evident to anyone who’s read my bio, but I make this point for a reason – when do you start calling yourself “a […]

There are volumes to be written on the difference between reading ebooks and paperbacks. Fortunately, the eventual form the book will take doesn’t yet affect the actual writing of it

I am a casual writer. …Meaning, writing is not how I make my living and I do not follow any schedule for writing and publishing. I do not have a

I read an interview recently where a writer mentioned how much emphasis is placed on marketing these days, as though marketing will sell your books. She went on to say

How does a writer get an idea for a story? The old saying “Write what you know” comes to mind. Recently, a new follower on Twitter sent me the tweet

For writers, the rule is ironclad. All the experts tell us we absolutely, positively must have a website. So you do it. You register “yourauthorname.com,” fire up WordPress and you’re

Okay, I’m probably not alone in this, but it’s maddening how many ideas come to me when I’m not really at leisure to write any of them down. 1 AM

A writing career isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s for the tough. It’s for the ferocious. You’ll find yourself writing things that you never meant to write, and defending things that

I started writing when I could pick up a pen. Or pencil. Or crayon. I wrote this work – from a series I called “Little Books for Children” – at

Self-publishing is nothing new: Proust, Joyce, Mark Twain, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Anais Nin did it… and the list goes on and on, and no one is going

42. <Scanning the comments for people who got the reference.> OK, silliness aside, it’s a good thing to ponder. It’s a thing I doubt anyone will ever NOT ponder. Isn’t