My book is one year old! Well, close enough to a full year. The official one year mark is July 11, two days from now. I feel like this anniversary has snuck up on me. Sales for Book Indexing: A Step-by-Step Guide have slowed over the last few months, but… Read More »One Year Book Birthday!
It has been seven weeks since I launched Book Indexing: A Step-by-Step Guide. It feels like that time has flown by and it feels like that time has crawled by. A book doesn’t stop (while, it kind of feels like it stops but it doesn’t really) when it launches, and a lot… Read More »Book Indexing: Post-Publication Highs and Lows
It has been almost two weeks since I attended AFCon, the Ancient Faith Writing and Podcasting Conference, which took place in a little under 48 hours on June 13-15. It is a conference put on by Ancient Faith Ministries, an Orthodox Christian organization in the US which has substantial publishing… Read More »AFCon 2019 Debrief
Last week in my recap of the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation conference I alluded to business change, which is a difficult subject to write about. Change is inherently disruptive, as it usually involves some kind of ending as well as a new beginning. Change also affects the web… Read More »Business Changes Ahead
I have been reminding myself recently to not get frustrated over my slow progress writing fiction. It has been a dream of mine since I was a kid to be a writer. In grade four I managed to turn a two-page story assignment into an epic that was at least… Read More »Mastery Before Speed
Taking a sabbatical has been one of the best decisions I have made for my business. I am already thinking about doing it again next year. For those of you who don’t know, I recently took nearly six weeks off work, from mid-January to the end of February. I did… Read More »What I Accomplished During My Sabbatical
If you read my previous post on genre, I’d understand if you think that this is another post inspired by the When Words Collide writing festival that I attended mid-August. This post, however, was actually inspired by Larry Sweazy’s keynote address at the joint ASI/ISC indexing conference I attended in June.… Read More »Plotter vs. Pantser? The Indexer Edition
I am currently recovering from a wonderfully exhausting four days at the When Words Collide writing festival in Calgary. If my notes are correct, I attended eighteen different panels and workshops, made new contacts and got to know previous acquaintances better, and had the world of genre publishing in Canada… Read More »The Uses of Genre