Author Archive: Raven West
Technology is Robbing Authors of Our Immortality
Pick up a pencil. Right NOW pick up a pencil. Or if you prefer a pen, if you can find one, and write you name. In script. If you remember how. Now, look at your signature. The name you wrote is probably shared by millions, but the way you wrote it is unique and special …
Get OUT of the Publishing Traffic Jam
In the early days of publishing the road to riches was a small highway littered with rejected manuscripts and abandoned dreams. Few who started out on the journey actually made it to the finish line. Many more either crashed and burned, or simply abandoned the trip altogether. For the financially independent, there was the alternate …
Author Raven West 
How Do You Come Up with Ideas for a Novel?
Raven West ♦ March 9, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
When you introduce yourself as an author, the second question you’ll probably hear most often, after the inevitable “are you self-published?” is “how do you come up with ideas for your novel?”. Setting aside the first question for now, my response is how do I not come up with ideas for my next novel? For those …
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