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My Process for Launching and Marketing my Books
This week, I received an email from a beautiful woman asking me if I’d talk a bit about how to launch and market a book, and because I try to provide what is useful to the folks who give me a bit of...
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Why I Sell My Books EVERYWHERE – The Ethics of Bookselling
A bookstore owner I respect, whose indie bookstore I adore, posted a very thought-provoking thread on Facebook last night. He was talking about how disappointed he was that so many authors share links...
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What’s In A Name? My Decision to Use a Pen Name
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that in the past few months I’ve taken on a quest to put books into the world at a much quicker pace and that I’m taking my inspiration for that...
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What Every Character Needs unless Unconscious in Space
In college, I took a philosophy class (loved it, even though it made my head hurt), and we studied the “brain in a vat” theory, the idea that we are simply brains floating in some substance who think...
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A Rough and Ready Primer on Traditional Publishing
Recently, the members of the free online writing community I coordinate and I have been discussing publishing paths, and as part of those discussions, I wrote up this rough and ready primer on...
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An Introvert’s Guide to Book Promotion – A Guest Post by Nicole Gulotta
Friends, Nicole Gulotta is one of my favorite writers on writing. Her Wild Words Podcast is a new must-listen in my feed, and I read her weekly newsletter without fail. Today, she’s sharing some of her...
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Writing as a Way to Play and Be Well
For the past few weeks, I have been editing and compiling. I haven’t been doing much writing. I can feel it. Everything I am doing feels harder, takes more effort and will, is less bright and...
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Reading the Books I Own – My Plan for 2020
Happy New Year, Friends. As I write, the Blue Ridge is being covered in an amazing January snow – all fluffy and so dense that it’s quieting the whole world. So I’m thinking about this new year, about...
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Expense and Income Run-Down on my Cozy Mysteries
One of my goals as a writer is to be as transparent as possible about the financial side of things. So often we only see the numbers that look good – bestseller’s rankings or the net worth of our most...
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The Light Returns. The Words Change Course – This Writing Life with Andi...
Here we are, in the darkest week of the longest year in our lifetimes. Christmas is on its way. Hanukkah has shown her lights. Kwanzaa will brighten the days of the rest of the month. . . and then, we...
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