Category Archives: indie publishing

How Writing is Very Much Like Painting and Other Arts, Bad News For a Pantser Like Me

Posted by Joanne Huspek

I am currently in the middle of writing the first draft of my fifth (!)* novel. As with my first effort, Finding Cadence, I’m starting out with a load of vague ideas and a kinda-sorta story line. I have characters, … Continue reading →

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Thanking Those Who Have Helped Along the Way

Posted by Joanne Huspek

A shot of my Acknowledgments Page, FINDING CADENCE As a writer, there are some forms of writing that I enjoy more than others. For example, I relish writing scathing letters to editors and politicians, angry rants to restaurants that have … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Help But To Write What I Know

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I had written a blog post a month or so back (I’d look for it and link it, but it’s Monday and I’m busy and besides that I’m totally lazy) where I had admitted (more or less) that my novels … Continue reading →

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The Indie-Trad Argument, From My Perspective, or Yes, I’m Self-Publishing

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The cover for my new book. If you want to be thoroughly entertained and crave a shower of fireworks on the Internet, one might be better served to stay away from the political realm and follow authors and agents embroiled … Continue reading →

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There’s a Reason I’ve Been Mostly Quiet…

Posted by Joanne Huspek

It has to do with the fact that I’ve been busy getting my novel ready for release. Can we say “YAY” or SQUEE? Or sympathize and pray for my soul? 🙂 Yes, I’ve decided to publish FINDING CADENCE myself and … Continue reading →

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Hunting and Bagging the Elusive ‘Write’ Time

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It’s Monday, and my Real Life plate runneth over. Our office survived four days of painters, which is no easy task.  (Think trying to paint around an explosion, and you’ll know what the painters had to deal with.) Today’s enrollments … Continue reading →

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Writing: On Which I Yield to the Idea of a Muse

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A long, long time ago (holy cow, five years ago!), I wrote this article about kicking my muse to the curb. Thanks to a workshop at the San Francisco Writers Conference this year, I have changed my mind. When I … Continue reading →

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