Author Friendly
Carla KingA practical space for writers thinking seriously about craft, publishing, tech tools, and how to build a sustainable writing life.
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Reclaiming the Lost Art of Margin Notes
I love digital books, but I miss paper. I miss writing in the margins, both for my own notes and when I’m reviewing another author’s book and want to jot down my impressions.
Remember marginalia? You grabbed a pen, scribbled in the margin,...
Laptop Life in 34 Feet: The Writing Gear That Saves My Hands, Back, and Eyes
For the past year and a half I’ve been living and working in my 34-foot fifth-wheel RV on my parents’ property, where we get to keep each other company now that I’m in my 60s and they’re in their 90s. That makes me a laptop-life writer in a...
All About ISBNs and More
The Publishing Professionals Network had me on to talk about ISBNs and the related alphabet soup that every author-publisher should know. The link to my slideset and the video replay is included below.
ISBNs, PCNs, LCCNs, PCIP blocks,
M...
Your Book May Have Illegally Made Billions
If your book had made billions, you wouldn’t be reading a newsletter, you’d be buying an island. The billions went to Anthropic, which agreed to pay $1.5 billion after training Claude on pirated books without asking.
That real settlement i...
Writing with the 5 senses. Or is it 12?
Lately I’ve been reading Tara Swart’s book The Signs: The New Science of How to Trust Your Instincts.
In my writing classes, I often talk about layering sensory detail into a story after the first draft. When I was working as a travel writ...
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Carla King shares stories of road trips, adventures, and life on the road from a life exploring the world on unreliable indigenous motorcycles.
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