by Karrie Stewart | Nov 1, 2020 | Starting your writing career
Wow. So here it goes. Up early on a Sunday, my one sleep-in day. I’m already at my desk, pre-coffee. I zone out the bills and boxes in my office. I zone out my mile-long mental to-do list. I’ve sat down to write. I’ve committed myself to NaNoWriMo. I am a partner in...
by Stephen Axtell | Oct 31, 2020 | Starting your writing career
Congratulations to our spooky writers!!! It has been a long month and seven brave writers have given us their best shivers. We appreciate everyone that entered. After weeks of frightful competition, Kismet is proud to present our winners: In second place: Having...
by Stephen Axtell | Jan 10, 2020 | Starting your writing career
Happy January and 2020! First, we’d like to thank everyone who entered our sweepstakes. It was wonderful to read the worthy (and absolutely attainable) goals of so many of our fellow writers. If you’d still like to share your goals with us and others,...
by Stephen Axtell | Dec 19, 2019 | Starting your writing career
Or: How to pop and lock your way to better book sales. Do you remember Vine? The short-form video platform that filled the internet with the wonderful/terrible Harlem Shake. For a month or so, that song was everywhere. Then, it vanished. Vine had its moment, but...
by Karrie Stewart | Nov 1, 2019 | Starting your writing career
Recently I attended The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Annual Gold Conference here in Denver, CO. While attending a class on pitching, I heard literary agent Michael Carr cite a shocking statistic. He stated only approximately 10% of beginning writers will become...
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