Randy – The Value of Professional Associations

The
Society of Southwestern Authors gives me connections that I value…friends and
colleagues who share a passion for writing. The group is based out of Tucson
(has chapters in other places in Arizona: Phoenix, Wickenburg, and the Santa
Cruz Valley), and monthly meetings offer members and guest an opportunity to
share. The experience here is enormous. Many of the members [...]

Book Swap

There’s nothing more satisfying than matching the right book with the right person.  I have several books I won’t lend because they are “friends” of mine or “family”.  I know what caused every little tear, stain, or fold.  I enjoy the feel of them, the smell and of course the reading experience.  And I have [...]

Randy – Using Material From Your Life Experiences

It is fair to say that I have not always liked where my writing has taken me, for instance into the mind of a perverted person, a pedophile. My life, and the day jobs I’ve had, has given me plenty of material from which to draw. Members of my family, as children, were victims of [...]

Randy – At what point does writing become a profession?

A play of mine, written in the early sixties, was called “most impressive and original” by Henry Hewes, then a widely known drama critic of the “Saturday Review of Literature.” According to Hewes, the play “quite successfully catches the drag racing, girl-chasing flavor of two hot-rodder’s who emulate and idolize the late James Dean.” (Today [...]

TAMING THE BOOK PROMOTION MONSTER

Don’t miss this seminar September 6, 2008, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm in the Northwest Valley in Arizona (exact location and directions given upon registration).

Whether you are unpublished, self-published, published with a small press, or with a large publisher, most of the promotion work nowadays falls to the author. Mistakes in that [...]

Randy – Has Culture Moved to Web 2.0?

As a barometer, what I think about the health of theaters and cultural arts centers across the United State may not be accurate. My experiences in my role as the founder and president of a cultural art center may be atypical. It was, however, a conversation with a person of national note (a friend) who [...]

Download Free Books

I’m a little ADD (or is it ADHD?) when it comes to the internet.  Tonight for example, I was listening to a web video about how to make money blogging here and when the narrator and content creator, Yaro Starak, came to the part about giving away content in the form of ebooks, it reminded [...]