Jun 15
I’m very happy to have a guest poster today! Jennifer is my very first guest on this blog, but she won’t be the last! Every so often I’m going to have author friends joining me, so, please be kind and give her a warm welcome. I love being self published, but once I was going …
Jun 09
This weekend I was honored to be asked to give a talk to the wonderful Washington Romance Writers on self-publishing. I asked them what, exactly, they wanted me to cover and they said, basically, everything someone needs to know to get started. I was good with that. Even fact, I was great with that. I …
Jun 02
Last week I started telling you about how to organize your novel. It’s a big task, but happily, not a difficult. If you missed part 1, it’s here. In it I discuss what you need to organize and got started by talking about how to organize your characters. Today, I’ll move on to your plot. …
May 26
We interrupt this blog post with a special announcement!! The WG2E Street Team Authors are proud to be a part of Bestselling author Brenda Novak’s Annual Online Auction for Diabetes Research. It’s been going on all month and winds down May 31. Throughout the event they hold special one-day auctions, and the WG2E Street Team …
May 19
I recently received an email from a friend who was on vacation. She had referred me to another friend of hers who needed her book formatted, so she wrote to me to tell me this. While on vacation. I didn’t think anything of it. I do the same thing. A day doesn’t go by without …
May 12
Showing versus telling is, I believe, one of the keys to writing a great book, rather than just a good book. It’s not an easy thing for a writer to catch a hold of either because we are born story tellers, not story writers. So, sometimes, it takes a second pass at your writing to …
May 05
What do readers want from a newsletter? What do they hope for when they join a mailing list? I can’t imagine that anyone joins a mailing list in the hopes of being left alone, or without the expectation that they’re going to get notices of books being published by the author producing the newsletter. …
Apr 28
Before you get to today’s fun blog — I’ve started a newsletter sign-up. If you’d like to hear from me every couple of months with my publishing news (and, just for fun, I’m going to try to put in an exclusive short story into each newsletter), just add your name to my mailing list by …
Apr 21
I feel like I’m going on a Hero’s Journey of a sort. I’m off today for my annual Washington Romance Writer’s Annual Retreat. In fact, when you read this (assuming you read it on Sunday when it’s posted), I’ll just be on my way home. So let me delve into this analogy, if you will. …
Apr 14
How much time do you spend marketing? How much time do you spend going through your email? When I turn on my computer, usually around 8 am, I usually have over thirty emails to go through. Most are things I can just delete right away without even opening, some are digests of Yahoo! loops I …
