Recent content by David C. Newrick

Amazing @AgentPete a huge well done. You clearly know a thing or two about marketing :) If you find out where you are getting traffic from and how you got it then it would be brilliant if you share it with us. However, I would fully understand if you felt you wanted to ensure your own success...

Welcome back to the world of writing but more importantly glad you are well again and will remain so. Your health is far more important than any silly old writing or best seller :) Good luck with your work.

If you don't have a website then it will become crucial that you get one or have someone do it for you. It is part of your 'platform' and the hard reality of being a writer in the 21st century is that you will have to spend countless hours doing your own marketing and publicity no matter which...

Welcome to Litopia. My your work always be in print!

Interesting! It got me to click. How would you get across the genre though? And do you intend to publish the whole novel on-line?

Interesting Mel L, however the quote does not necessarily come from On Writing, of which I have a copy. Stephen King has given countless lectures, talks and discussions over an extremely long career so the quote could be taken from one of those. Fantastic debate by the way. I find everything...

Welcome Julie. You are getting feedback and answers already so you should do fine on here. You have also posted, so you are well underway. Good luck with your work.

Hopefully we will both learn from people's comments Pamela Jo. I certainly hope so.

That is a very interesting reply Hannah. I see where you are coming from, especially about slanting the narrative. I must admit though that I still find it hard to write the story I want to tell and want to read - I can never get over the fact that it is being written for others to read, not me...

I don't know if you can recall @AgentPete that about 15 years ago when faced with huge costs of hardware such as state-of-the-art data centres, microwave, satellite etc to meet the growth of internet usage major ISPs proposed a token charge for time used across their networks. This move would...

The way I have always understood it is that if you were talking about something personal possessive to Julius you add the s, i.e. Julius's nose. Whereas something non-personal drops the possessive s, i.e. Julius' letter. Do you see the subtle difference there? However, it is a 'vague area' and...

The quote 'Write for the top ten percent of your readers' is attributed to Stephen King. After giving it a tremendous amount of thought I bore this in mind in my own writing for novels like Scenes From A Dying Planet and my WIP. Before I write anything on Litopia about my thoughts on this quote...

Welcome human. It is a long time since I have read any science fiction even though I love a good sci fi movie like Dune. Perhaps you can make me change alleyways you tease...

One take away from the statistics for me is 61.63% use reader magnets i.e. free book or other incentive and 50.87% use book giveaways. Personally, now that I pay much more attention to these matters and publicity offers, I have been utterly shocked at how Stephen King novels, Lee Child novels...

I say go for it agent Pete. I have lurked around these halls of writing pretty much since the beginning. My biggest lesson when writing Scenes From A Dying Planet and other works is that writers need to be commercially aware if they are going to survive, and I don't just mean to make money but...