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I am My Own Whore

This post was originally titled, The Why I Do Not Comment On Other Blogs Manifesto, but it seemed a little precious and pretentious — and I try to save all my pretension and preciousness for the content of my posts and not waste them on the title — so I chose to call this post I am My Own Whore because it has a puckish ring of the ugly truth.

In my post Please Adjust your RSS Feeds, my fellow bloggers and I discussed a discussion that I have had at least 10 times here in the last month and in email and on other blogs when I am asked, sometimes in a roundabout way, but usually in a direct manner: Why don’t you post comments on my blog?

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Nebraska Football RIP

Today the Nebraska football team lost to Oklahoma 31-24. Put the cover on the coffin and declare Nebraska football dead as it moulders in our memories of the Tom Osborne twilight.

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Pitching a Book to Buyers

No book gets sold unless someone thinks it will sell. That first “someone” is your publishing house. That second “someone” is the chain buyer who places an order for your book. If you want to sell a book without writing the whole thing first, you need to help your publisher, and ultimately the buyers in the bookstore chain, understand why you, and your book, are worth purchasing.

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Why the Right Publisher Matters

Having a good relationship with an editor is important for writers, but before you can get to that personal interaction you, as a professional author, must first choose the right publishing house. Your publisher is the entity that will actually produce and negotiate your writer’s contract and also birth your book into the world.

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Four Magic Words

“I believe in you.”

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Try This if You Dare

If you want to help me test WordPress.com I would like you to try to add the following link to your Blogroll via the LINKS menu in your WordPress.com admin view:

http://boles.com

Please add that link just as it appears. Do not add “www” to the front of “boles.com” and then let me know if it appears in your Blogroll and if you can then edit or delete it from your LINKS Admin view.

Thanks!

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Reaching Beyond the Front Row

Annette Lareau discusses in her fine book, Unequal Childhoods, how parents with money use “Concerted Cultivation” as a weapon to make their kids well-rounded and aggressive in society and to challenge adults and teachers and doctors by “speaking up” when they feel they have been wronged.

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