Today my special guest Amy Denim is doing my Thursday Thirteen for me. I know—score! She’s here to tell us about business plans and her new release The Coffee Break Guide to Business Plans for Writers. Check out her easy 13 point plan below. Oh, and Amy is giving away...
I’m visiting Terry’s Place, the hangout of author Terry ODell today and talking about Strategies to beat Procrastination. Change procrastination to productivity. Does this sound like something you need? Yes? I have to admit there are times when I’m a champion...
I'm fairly new to Twitter, and I'm always wondering what to tweet about. I subscribe to The Book Marketing Expert newsletter and this week they included an article covering things for people to tweet about. Here are a few of them. Thirteen Things For Authors to Tweet...
"The best writing tip...hmmm. I guess it would be keep your head down and get the job done, first of all. You can't be published if you don't finish your book. Be ruthless. Pretty good books aren't going to sell, so dig deep. And have faith in yourself. No one was...
"Grammar matters. So does punctuation. Seriously, they do, and your future editors don't exist to fix them for you. Editors reject books that need basic grammatical polishing even if the story's good. But here's the awesome part. The correctness of grammar and...
I often come across good articles and posts relating to writing and the writing business when I'm surfing on the net. What? You thought I wrote all the time? :grin: I don't know about you, but I enjoy both keeping up with the writing market and learning new things. I...
Have you seen the YouTube featuring Susan Boyle? The judges took one look at Ms. Boyle, listened to her talking and decided she wouldn’t be able to sing. The music started, Ms. Boyle started singing and smashed apart every one of the judges’ preconceptions, showing...
Thirteen Writer Traits This week fellow author Christine d'Abo mentioned The Writer's Guide to Character Traits by Linda N. Edelstein. It contains all sorts of neat information and inspired by Christine's post, I dragged it out of my bookcase. In her book the author...
