Marketing Feelings

“Art is a container for your feelings.” Jane Friedman, according to David Gaughran. We all know that the best books make you feel. It doesn’t matter whether those feelings are happiness, sadness, excitement, anguish, or disappointment (unless it’s disappointment that...

Planning Ahead–Help Requested

Last week I touched on the fact that attaining an objective is a road, a journey. So, as I’m still in planning mode for this year (having gotten a late start due to some traveling and my arms being in casts), I’m thinking about planning my journey through 2023. There...

Taking one for the team

I hate grammar. I think I might have mentioned that here before. I just find it so incredibly boring! I can find no interest at all in the different parts of speech, all the rules, where to place commas—all of it. And yet, I just spent a great deal of money on a...

Go ahead and celebrate

Every Sunday, my husband and I sit and watch an American football game. I enjoy watching men in tight uniforms engage in fantastic feats of athleticism; my husband loves the strategy involved. (Football, despite the physicality of it, is a cerebral game.) But there is...

AuthorTube!

AuthorTube! As my husband said when I said the word aloud to him, “What the heck is that?” Have you heard of it? I certainly hadn’t until I attended the SelfPubCon a few weeks ago. It’s similar to BookTok and Bookstagram, only it’s for authors—and there is,...