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Author Archives: donnagillespie
Here’s to Modern Times, When Publishing is (Relatively) Easy…
By Donna Gillespie Recently I decided it was time to try out Amazon’s print-on-demand service, Create Space. It’s an appealing concept: One reader, one book. No inventory, no waste. I’d put it off too long: Only used copies of book … Continue reading
Posted in e-publishing, historical fiction, History, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Process
Tagged cover art, creating cover art, Donna, Donna Gillespie, e-publishing, formatting for Create-Space, Jane Kiskaddon, painting, Publishing Using Create-Space, The Light Bearer, The writing process
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” I Commiserate.” The Trauma of Trilogies
By Donna Gillespie and Beth S. While working on the third book of my Light Bearer series, I wrote this post, The Trauma of Trilogies. Thank you, Beth S. for a great dialogue on the process and for your permission … Continue reading
The Trauma of Trilogies
By Donna Gillespie When I first made the jump from short stories to a novel, I used to say that if the raw excitement of getting swept up in a short story could be compared to starting an affair, writing … Continue reading
Outlines: Mapquest for novelists, or soul-killing, oxygen-sucking waste of time?
A friend of mine told me she was getting frustrated with her writing class and wasn’t sure she was going to stay with it. Students were told to outline the whole book before the instructor let them start, and he’d … Continue reading
Research: a burden, or a writer’s best friend?
By Donna Gillespie Whenever I complain over the fact I seem to need at least ten or twelve years per book, I nearly always hear these words of comfort — “But of course. You have to do all that research.” … Continue reading
What’s your favorite way to grab more writing time? (Hint: Don’t try this one)
So I just went in for the second time — my next — and final, since now I’m fresh out of legs — total knee replacement. It seems I’m hard on knees. Thank god I’m not a horse. Or, worse, … Continue reading
Notes From Leonard Bishop’s Class, 1977-78: The Next Two Weeks
Here are more Leonard quotes harvested from that moldering notebook I kept in his class circa 1977. For those who don’t know him, Leonard Bishop taught a novel writing workshop at UC Berkeley Extension until 1983 — he was the … Continue reading
My Adventures in E-publishing: Round Two
By Donna Gillespie And so at last the freshly scanned copy of my first novel was buffed and polished and — or so I thought — all ready to be electroni-cized. (That story’s here: My Adventures in E-publishing, Round One; http://www.peninhand.org). … Continue reading
Posted in e-publishing, Publishing, Writing
Tagged Donna Gillespie, getting published, publishing e-books, writing techniques
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Notes from Leonard Bishop’s class, 1977-78
Part One: May 2 to May 9 I’ve had these notes tucked away in a drawer for a long time, and they’d been calling to me. These are from a writer’s workshop that met back in the 70s, made up … Continue reading
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