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What to do with no money.
I’ve spoken with a couple of business advisors/small business owners/successful authors over the years, and I’ve noticed an upsetting trend when I speak to any of them. With every single […]
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Writing outside my experience.
For my latest book, I had to do some research on drug addiction and recovery. My main character was going through a morphine addiction, and having never been addicted to […]
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Too clean.
I was thinking the other day. A Facebook friend brought up the idea of death in children’s books, and whether or not that was an appropriate topic for kids. There […]
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2016 has been a bitch.
On a more global scale, but also on a more personal scale. My husband got fired from his job. As of December 1, he hasn’t found a new one. We’re […]
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The end.
I just found out that my next-door neighbor is dying. She has cancer. It hasn’t responded to any of the chemo or radiation the oncologists have tried. But the last […]
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Sharing the adventure.
I heard the advice today on the The Self Publishing Podcast from marketing expert Tim Grahl that writing is an adventure, and when you blog, you should share the adventure. […]
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Starting the new year.
Cuz last year sucked. So hard. To start 2015 off, my husband and I were broke. We were making better money than we had in a long time, but because […]
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Pricing, value, and funnels.
So this post has only a bit to do with self-publishing novels, and more to do with pricing as an entrepreneur — or, I suppose, that has plenty to do […]
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Been gone awhile.
Sorry about that. I’ve been rather busy. I’ve decided that while writing is still my main passion in life, being self-employed is a big deal. So I started a small […]
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The relationship.
As a writer, I get handed a lot of books by random people. Some of the books are by authors these people admire, some of them are self-written works, some […]
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