This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. With the roses on white floral, it was time to do more fill-in. I looked at a moderate pink gingham. I have plenty but it just didn’t look right. It read as too dark, […]
In 2017, we released “Suburban Stockade: Strengthening Your Life Against an Uncertain Future” and in 2020 we rereleased it with a newer, snappier (we hope) title “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered.” Teresa Peschel spent several years writing her “manifesto memoir” about her concerns for the future and how you can best protect your family from the […]
This episode of the Career Indie Author is overdue. This week has been full of editing my wife’s first book, “Suburban Stockade.” It’s in the hands of CreateSpace, and if everything goes well, we’ll have copies available at the Downtown Hershey Association’s “Art on Chocolate” in Hershey on Saturday, May 13. Yay! Instead, I’ll put […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. As I wrote last week, I selected and sewed down a busy, teeny floral print, using ten pieces in all. I have a few inches of fabric left over, not enough to use again […]
Everyone has a limit. That’s the fun of watching intellectuals, writers, speakers, and thinkers who advocate extreme positions. You listen to them and you listen to them and you wonder just how far to their beliefs go? There’s H.L. Mencken, an advocate for free speech if ever there was one, objecting to the way Theodore […]
Author’s Note: I confess, this draft on your new book launch is a bit of a mess. As a longtime observer of the publishing scene, and a longtime website owner (since about 1997), it was easy to blast through writing most of the book. I have had a lot of experience in those areas. Now, […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. I’ve done more sewing lately but not more writing. That means I will have to play catch-up and reconstruct what I did, using my faulty memories and incomplete pictures. This is the dirty secret […]
So you’ve got your books up on Amazon. You put some of them in the Kindle Unlimited program, so you’ll get paid if someone reads them. Great! Now all you need to do is sit back and earn that promised five-figure income. Until you get an email from Amazon saying you’re toast. Your books have […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Dragon Princess continued to put up a fight. I’ve ripped out and sewn down the 16 dark purple and green strips. I spent time fretting over the orientation of my strips; I needed eight […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Last week, I talked about picking the fabrics and filling blocks on the NotQuilt. This time, we’ll start filling in the grid. We already know that the center dark strip will be the pink […]