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Wacky Writing Idea #16: Monster Orphanage

November 21, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

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Wacky Writing Idea #15: Everyone In The World Started Having Visions Of The Same Person

November 18, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

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Recorded My First Audiobook

November 16, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

This week (on Monday, November 14th) I launched the audiobook version of my non-fiction book “Negotiating After Getting A Job Offer“. I’m not much of an audiobook “reader” myself. Almost all my reading is done electronically on an iPad, with a tiny amount of print reading on the side. I keep encountering the fact that […]

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Is There A Benefit To Having A Blog?

November 11, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Some time back (early in 2022), there was a Reddit post asking about the benefit of having a blog as a self-published author. I posted a comment giving my view on this, but felt this was something worth expanding to a blog post. I was a personal finance blogger before I started writing novels and […]

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The Complete Tightwad’s Approach To Shoestring Publishing

November 9, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I’m a big believer in keeping costs low when you’re getting started writing, but the VAST majority of writers advise: “spend money on this, spend money on that. It takes money to make money!” Everyone gets to decide how to write and publish for themselves. I’m firmly of the opinion that there are *MANY* reasons […]

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Writing Contests

January 31, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Soon after someone starts writing, they’ll come across “writing contests”. If the writer doesn’t discover these themselves, well-meaning friends and family will start sending them links. The contests themselves are offered by a broad array of organizations. Some you’ll have heard of, others you won’t. They prominently advertise the prize, usually a small sum of […]

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Wacky Writing Idea #14: Satanic Dungeons and Dragons

January 7, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

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Wacky Writing Idea #13: High Fantasy Mechas

December 17, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

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Using Money To Understand The Publishing Industry

December 10, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

A woman recently posted in a Facebook authors’ group I’m a part of that she was rejected after submitting her series to a publisher. She wrote, “It was an audiobook company who said my sales aren’t enough for them to be successful. What stung the most was when she said, ‘you just released your fifth […]

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What Are Hybrid Publishers?

December 1, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

A question came up a while back in a writing group about what exactly hybrid publishers are. One person asked if the ‘hybrid’ means that they publish paper and electronic (this isn’t what they are). I’ll start this post off with the “polite” description that hybrids use to describe themselves, then my own view of […]

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