It isn’t about the $12. It’s that the $12 wasn’t charged to everyone equally, and only penalized low-selling authors. These stores wouldn’t have any products if it weren’t for the writers producing material, and yet every step of the self-publishing process takes a monetary cut away from the writer. Since…

The Nigerian book club scammers who harass me daily have consistently gotten meaner in response to my lack of response. I usually don’t even open their emails, but today I got curious. However, my lack of response is exactly what I explicitly state that I will do. This communications policy…

The pitch is that giving away free ebooks will entice people to leave you a review on the platform they downloaded it and on Goodreads. If this were true I would have over 4,000 reviews for my books on Amazon alone since 2009 when I first joined KDP to distribute…

I wanted to publish a poetry book since I was 13 years old which was 1996. It was always in the back of my mind. In more recent years I am criticized often for choosing to self-publish the way that I self-publish as though I am personally responsible for the…

For years National Poetry Month used to inevitably be followed by National Burn Out Month in May. Challenging yourself to write a poem a day while attending multiple poetry events per week for five weeks straight is a recipe for burnout, especially for many introverted and neurodivergent writers who need…

National Poetry Month, World Poetry Day, and a forgotten history.

D.L. Lang reflects on being published in 100 anthologies.

An interview with D.L. Lang about the economics of poetry.

Throughout much of 2025 I had writer’s block, and I have been intentionally trying to take time off to focus on getting treatment for my various ongoing health conditions. In spite of this it has still been quite the eventful year. I had the honor of participating in the U.S….

Since 2020 I was very focused on becoming more widely published as a poet. My original goal was to be published in 6 anthologies so that I could have an official listing on the Poets & Writers‘ directory. By 2025 that number blossomed to 95 anthologies. I got pretty good…