by Orna Ross | Dec 25, 2020 | Go Creative! |
Happy Chrismukkah, dear reader, if you live in one of the Judeo-Christian influenced lands. Or Happy Makaraa Sankranti (Hindi), Yalda (Peruvian), Las Posadas (Mexican), or Grianstad (pagan Gaelic). However you celebrate the festival of rebirth and renewal that...
by Orna Ross | Sep 29, 2020 | Go Creative! |
My non-fiction books now carry the following disclaimer: Like all ALLi guides, this book uses they and their as singular pronouns, rather than he and him, or she and her, a style choice based on the word’s common spoken usage, inclusivity, lexical elegance, and long...
by Orna Ross | Feb 8, 2019 | Fiction, Go Creative! |
Writing a trilogy is a massive undertaking and I'm at work on Book 2 of my Yeats trilogy, Dancing in the Wind (while continuing the incubation work on the final novel of my Irish trilogy, In the Hour.) That's the fiction fun around here at the moment. So how do you...
by Orna Ross | Jul 12, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Font Publications is my publishing imprint. Not all indie authors have an imprint though many do, for all sorts of reasons. Mine are quite personal. Imprints began in trade publishing for trade reasons. The larger publishing companies have multiple imprints, using the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Howard Lovy, Managing Editor at The Alliance of Independent Authors, did a Q&A with me recently about my latest experiment: poetry on Patreon. Though it was poetry that first got me into self-publishing, I realized recently I had all sorts of assumptions that were...
by Orna Ross | Mar 22, 2018 | Go Creative! |
What Is A Creativepreneur? Creativepreneur is a relatively new job designation, unheard of before the 1990s, and only really taking off with the widespread adoption of smartphones in the past decade. A creativepreneur builds a businesses around a personal mission,...