I’m sure you’ve seen the ads. Between social media and some newsletters I subscribe to probably a dozen of them hit my inbox this week. Learn Indie Author Secrets The Secrets To Being A 6-Figure Author Your First $1000 Courses like that are literally a...
There’s a common thread that runs through the disappointment that comes with low sales or publisher and agent rejections. When you submit a proposal for a conference and it doesn’t get accepted or when you submit a resume for a job and you don’t get...
Imagine this… You’re sitting at your desk and an ad crosses your social media feed or maybe you see someone post about a class that really helped them. You go to look at the website and it’s a slick marketing page. And the class costs $497 but...
A long time ago there was the belief, a myth really because I don’t think it ever was true, that authors wrote books, sent them off to agents who sold them to publishers who published them and got them in front of readers. Sure, authors attended genre and more...
Maybe it’s a weekend or a vacation from work, either way you have your goal in mind and are excited to see what you can achieve. Or maybe it’s just a very ordinary day and you have a daily writing plan that…just never happens? Or there’s a...
One of the hardest parts of being an author is putting together a story that you are certain is amazing, offering it to the world and…nothing. Books that you expect to be flops may be successes, which isn’t a bad thing at all. But the reverse, those books...
More ideas than you could ever find time to write? Coming up with lists of things to do like updates to your author website, marketing tactics, or sites to check out to see if they can help you promote your book? The tumble of ideas can turn into a torrent if...
The publishing industry has always been one of constant change. Having been a published author for over twenty years, I can tell you that. Publishers rising and falling. New trends. Heck, I even remember when ebooks were new and you no longer had to explain to people...
When you consult your to do app, the next item on the list is “write” and often there’s a word count attached. You open the file. You try to write, but you keep getting distracted, scrolling through social media or having other projects interrupt....
It’s that time of year again when my social media feeds are full of ads for programs designed to boost your creativity and your productivity in the new year. People are making posts about their “word for the year” and for the low price of only $19 or...
