mk tod – Patricia J. Parsons

I was going to call this “sharing some insights,” but only you, the reader, can ever determine if they’re insights for you. But they are insights for me!

I’ve been absent for so long from this space because I’ve been working on my YouTube series WRITE. FIX. REPEAT. and, as it turns out, a book series.

My books of late have been mostly contemporary, but my stories snake into history from time to time. That’s why when historical fiction writer, MK Tod asked me to write something for her popular blog “A Writer of History,” I jumped at the chance. The piece is out today. I’m focusing on some unconventional tips for writing a series since my experience defies most conventional advice out there.

If you’d like to read it (and explore Mary’s excellent writing blog), just click on the image below. Happy reading (and writing)!

A friend of mine whose blog “A Writer of History” is a must-read for anyone attempting historical fiction (or even for other types of fiction for that matter), shared what she discovered when doing marketing research on Amazon recently. M.K. Tod and I happened to be having lunch a week ago when she related to me this interesting (shocking?) discovery. It seems that Amazon isn’t a level playing field, after all, for all writers and all publishers. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of us, but, somehow, it does.

Read down and click on the last line to see the piece.

An Amazon discovery — A Writer of History

I suspect many of you will know this, but it was news to me. Two weeks ago, in a burst of marketing effort (actually planning), I looked at Amazon’s top sellers in women’s historical fiction. My purpose was to find comparables for a novel I plan to self publish, and from there to discover what […]
An Amazon discovery — A Writer of History

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