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This week, we continue with Part 2 of Dyanne Davis’ article, Selling Out or Making a Sell. Be sure to check out Part 1 of Selling Out or Making a Sell if you haven’t already and definitely share your thoughts! Part 2 – Selling Out or Making a Sell by Dyanne Davis Let’s move it [...]
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a really wonderful holiday. Here’s to the best possible year for all of us! This article is about the little concessions that most writers make to have that contract that we all crave—to see their work in print. How do we as writers view the choices we [...]
We continue our Holiday Reading Challenge today with Dyanne Davis who has been an avid supporter of RAWSISTAZ for years, so it’s great to be able to have her here with us to discuss ON MY KNEES. Dyanne is also a columnist for RAWSISTAZ, so be sure to check out some of her past articles [...]
Happy New Year! We’ve made it to the last week of our Holiday Reading Challenge and have had a wonderful time with our guest authors. While it may be too late to claim one of the prizes for most active participant, it’s not too late to join in the fun. We will also do a [...]
Hello RAW family, In the past months I’ve been researching where to send shorter pieces of fiction. I’ve decided it’s time to find out more about markets that would pay for our work. I began with purchasing the newest edition of Novels and Short Stories Writers Market. It wasn’t until I reflected on my own [...]
Hello RAW family, Hopefully you know me well enough by now to know I’m pulling your leg. If not I hope you know the publishing business well enough to know there are NO secrets, just timing, luck good writing and perseverance. That said I will give you some tips that I have received from interviewing [...]
Welcome to Part 3 of the Publishing Contracts Series. Before you begin reading the clauses listed below that I think you should try to have in your contract with publisher remember that before writing became my career I was a nurse not a lawyer. That little statement is my disclaimer. The information I’ve listed below [...]
Hello RAW family. I thought I’d switch it up and not talk about contracts for the moment. That gets pretty boring even to me. What I decided to talk about was being the member of a critique group, having a friend read your work and give a critique or have a stranger read it and [...]
I hope while I was gone you all had a productive week. Did you have any questions about that contracts I posted? Hmm. Probably. Well I’m going to go over a few points that I think are important. Just remember this: Talking with my agents and lawyer does not make me a lawyer. I’m a [...]
Most of you aren’t familiar with me, so I’ll introduce myself. My name is Dyanne Davis and I’m a romance author. I also write a vampire series under F. D. Davis. I’m thrilled to be participating in this new venture that Tee is doing. For many years I didn’t think I’d learned enough to be [...]
