My husband and I just returned from an excellent Danube River cruise. (This is a picture of us when we saw our free minibar in Amsterdam, stocked with beer and wine, perhaps some other stuff, too.) We started out with a few days in Budapest, then sailed to Vienna, Durnstein, Passau, Regensburg, and Nuremberg, where … Continue reading
Author Archives: Becky Clark
Building Your Character — Literally!
I’m working on a new series proposal and I thought you might be interested in how I populate this world. First, I think of all the regular characters who will live and breathe there, noting everything I know about them on their character sheet: age, marital status, kids, where they live, how they dress, how … Continue reading
Becky’s Big Bodacious Blog Post
If you were to ask 100 authors to name the hardest part of their job, 99 of them will tell you, “Marketing and promotion.” The other one is a liar. Personally, I don’t mind the marketing because I’m a walkin’ talkin’ rootin’ tootin’ Becky Show all day, every day. Yes, thank you for asking, it … Continue reading
The Secret Lives of Great Authors
I read this captivating book a while back. Entertaining, fun, and possibly educational, but I didn’t let that stop me. “Secret Lives of Great Authors” by Robert Schnakenberg is a compilation of outrageous profiles of all the greats — Shakespeare, the Bronte gals, Twain, Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and many more. The … Continue reading
Newsletters or Snooze-letters?
I have a love-hate relationship with author newsletters, my own So Seldom It’s Shameful News in particular. We authors are told that we must have an email newsletter as a way to interact with our readers. Of course we do that on our blogs and on Facebook pretty regularly, but those platforms can go away … Continue reading
