The BetaBooks Blog

News about BetaBooks, with thoughts on writing, reading, and publishing sprinkled in.

Sources of Inspiration

When it comes to writing, staying motivated, etc. I think it's pretty helpful to follow other writers and hear what they have to say. As of today, there are three main sites / sources I follow regularly, where by regularly I mean I read or listen to nearly everything they ...

Getting in a Flow

This first week I've tried something that I never did on that old blog, the one that almost killed me. I've written an entire week's worth of posts in one day, but I'm not going to post them all at once. Rather, I'm going to trickle these bad boys out ...

Origin Story

Last fall (2015) I heard about NaNoWriMo . It may have been for the first time, or not. I don't know, and it doesn't matter. This time I did it. I had been dabbling with a book idea in September or October. Before that, I had been making some maps. ...

One-Way Idioms

I don't think I'll have the same tone every day, but the first few days the tone has been pretty dry. How's that working? I don't really have any readers yet (nor do I expect any, these early posts are called filler so that when I eventually write something interesting ...

Other Things

I studied Architecture in College. I was a computer nerd from birth (well, close), and one day I realized software was a better career than Architecture. I got into it the hard way, but I've done alright for myself. I also make furniture when I feel like it. And I ...