J. R. FRONTERA, author

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Jane Friedman on Getting Traditionally Published After Self-Publishing

For a very long time (considering I've been meaning to be published for about 16 years now), I had been told by industry professionals and experts that self-publishing your work meant you would never be traditionally published. Self-publishing got you blacklisted, is how it came across. It wasn't until just a few years ago, while attending one of the RT Booklover's conventions, that I learned this was no longer the case. You could actually be a "hybrid author", as they called themselves, and ... View Post

It's Entirely All in the Name. Everything. Seriously.

So my work on editing PRIMUS has come to a screeching halt of late, so much so that I should really update my May Project List to more accurately reflect my suddenly-changed priorities. What caused this sudden change in priorities? The realization that I really do have extremely limited time to write. The realization that it's currently May, and my self-set deadline for self-publishing my novella "The Hound of God" is in August. Calculating what needs to still be accomplished on the novella ... View Post

April and May 2015 Project Lists and April Bait, Fish, and Reel Report … COMBINED!

Why hello there! No, no, I didn't forget about you. I was just busy editing the novel and playing Dragon Age every free waking moment of April. But here I am at long last with another much-needed update! If you've been following along the last few months, you know that April was Camp NaNoWriMo and that I planned to edit my novel for at least 30 hours as my Camp goal. Thus, the Project List for April 2015 was rather simple: April 2015 Project List: Edit PRIMUS for at least 30 hours, ideally ... View Post

This Thing I Like to Call "Passive Editing" and How It Works…

Back in February I made a post outlining my Grand Master Plan for editing my 500+ page novel. Now it is April, and as some of you know, April is Camp NaNoWriMo. For Camp this year, I made the goal of spending 30 hours (or more) editing my novel for April. On April 1st, I began. In keeping with my Grand Master Plan, I am now in Phase One. Phase One involves what I've taken to calling "Passive Editing". Now, usually when I edit something, I go line by line and brutally analyze every single word. ... View Post

The Take-Away Message from Planet Comicon: THEY SAID "YES" (… but no, he did not go to Jared's …)

No, I am not talking about proposals, here. Or ... maybe I am. Just not the marriage type. The business type. More accurately, the OPPORTUNITY type. Over the weekend of March 13 - 15th, I attended Kansas City's local comicon, dubbed Planet Comicon, to be official. I was most excited about this year's first-time guest panelists to Planet, Nerd For a Living. So excited, in fact, I even took off work early on Friday JUST FOR THEM! Why do they deserve some of my vacation time? Because they are ... View Post

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