It took a little wrangling, but I finally was accepted into the Goodreads author program and my profile page along with my friends have now been converted into an author profile. I certainly feel official! Now I just have to go in and tweak my profile. I was going to add my working book cover, …
I make my living as a coach, writer and publisher of how-to information on non-fiction writing and marketing for the web, Amazon, etc. In that space, the go to platform for blog writing is a self-hosted WordPress blog. That means that you spend a few dollars purchasing a domain name and domain hosting from a …
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Thanks to author Rachel A Olson For this graphic:)
I’m not really sure what kind of Google search I did to stumble up YA author Veronica Roth’s website, but BOY am I glad I did. Veronica is the author of my oldest daughter’s favorite books: Divergent (Book 1) and Insurgent (Divergent, Book 2) and she has lots of little book writing and publishing gems on …
There’s a mean girl in my head telling me that my story is boring. Telling me that my characters are flat. Asking me who the hell do I think I am trying to write a book that readers will love much less like. She’s a real bitch and I’m sick of her. For the first …
When you grow up in dysfunctional home (and many of us can identify with that), a way that many of us cope is to escape. For some the escape can be negative. For example, some kids physically escape. They run away. They always stay at a friend’s house. They run the streets. Other kids emotionally escape …
