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Below are questions which have been sent to me from my readers via the Ask EelKat advice column. Each question is a link. Clicking that link will take you directly to the article which I wrote to answer said question. I have tried to arrange them by category in order to make it easier for you to find the answers you need. As my long time readers will already know a server crash took down most of the old free-hosted site on June 4, 2013 (which was online since 1997 and had reached 6,000+ pages). Thankfully everything was saved on a separate hard-drive and the site is being rebuilt with a new host and for the first time on it's own domain. YAY! I am currently moving all 6,000 questions&answer articles to this site one page at a time, at a rate of about 4 to 7 new pages being added each day, so be patient. Not all links are yet clickable. This process started on September 2, 2013 and will be ongoing at least through to January 2014. (And it may be well into 2017 before all 6,000 pages will be back online if I continue at this rate of 5 a day.) |
What is Traditional Publishing?
What are the Advantages of Traditional Publishing?
What are the Disadvantages of Traditional Publishing?
How can I become a Traditionally Published writer?
How can I get my book Traditionally Published?
Where should I submit my manuscript?
How do I format my manuscript for submission to a Traditional Publishing House?
Can I make a living as a Traditionally Published writer? Can I make a living from royalties?
Should I copyright my book? If so, how?
How can I tell if a contest or publishing offer is a scam?
Where can I find a list of book publishing scams?
May I send my book to you for evaluation?
How can I get feedback on my manuscript from a Traditional Publisher?
I am a Traditionally Published writer facing a crisis where can I go to find help?
Is rejection a bad sign?
Do I need an agent?
How much does it cost to publish with Traditional Publishing?
Who can I contact if my questions are not answered here?
English is not my first language, how can I get my book translated and published in America?
What resources and publications are available for kids?
What is Writer and How Does a Writer Become an Author?
Before Publishing Your Book
Are you sure you can't read my manuscript and give me feedback?
After Publishing Your Book
Are there ways to be sure I make money on my book?
What's the difference between a reprint and a new edition?
Do I Need a Letterhead?
What Should I Have on My Business Card?
Should I get postcards?
Should I get bookmarks?
Should I print hard copies of my book... or should I just do an ebook?
How do I decide whether to print hardcover or paperback?
What are the types of paperbacks I can choose from?
What are the book sizes I should choose?
How long does it take to print a book?
How much should I expect to pay for printing my book?
How do I find a printer?
What is an RFQ?
What is a signature?
What are paper weights and what should I choose?
What cover stock should I use?
Which is better, off-white or white paper?
Can't I just use Kinko's to print my galley?
What book size should I choose?
I'm an author. This is an author home page. It's about me, my life, my books, my hobbies, my home town, and anything else that applies to me and my life.
Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).
NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.
ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.
In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters. I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.
Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.
I DO NOT write Erotica.
I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.
The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.
There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.
And I'm sick of real estate agents who are too incompetent to research land ownership before they show up to stick a for sale sign in my yard.
The fact of the matter is, my son was murdered in 2013, and the friends and family of the murderer think it is funny to keep ILLEGALLY listing my land for sale, because apparently their child murdering bitch friend didn't hurt me enough by crippling me with a golf club, ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and beating his brains out on the ground with a golf club.
Also, her friends and family like to gaslight me by doxing me on ufo and alien abduction forums, while pretending to be me, and trying to make it look like I believe in ufos or aliens, even though I think people who believe in ufos are raving lunatics and people who claim to be alien abductees are crazy.
So, yeah, my son was murdered and the murder's friends and family endlessly harass me, my friends, and my family both online and offline, and I'm not happy with it at all.
There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter.
The FBI is looking for information into:
I'm going to repeat it because I'm tired of people showing up and making offers:
146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.
How did you build your audience?
Not online, that's for sure.
aka How to sell ten million books
aka How I sold ten million books.
The Park Bench Method of Writing
(just the article)
or
The Park Bench Method of Writing
(with the list of 10k writing prompts - takes a LONG TIME to load - SEVERAL MINUTES!)
I Think UFO and Alien Believers Are Weird Here's Why...
Does every writer have to deal with this shit?
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