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The time has come 13 Jun 2013 | 11:22 pm
I've had this blog since 2009, and it's been fun. I've had a lot of fun vomiting out my thoughts and fears and questions about writing and the publishing world. I've interviewed some awesome people a...
Sometimes it takes a while 5 Jun 2013 | 02:00 am
The other night my 11-year old cat, Max, caught his very first mouse! He caught it in our garage and then brought it up to the living room where he could watch it/disembowel it/be praised for it in c...
Fortitude, Bird Style 30 May 2013 | 02:30 pm
There's been a sweet married birdie couple living in my backyard for a while. Mr. and Mrs. California Towhee, ground-hopping birds who have a nest in a tree on the side of my yard. They've been there ...
How procrastination works 27 May 2013 | 02:30 pm
Sit down. Turn on Blip.fm DJ music stream. Get tea. Get yogurt covered pretzels. Open Word. Check email. Open manuscript file. Check Facebook. Sip tea. Get another pretzel. Scroll in Word. ...
5 Reasons You Don't Have an Agent Yet 23 May 2013 | 10:49 pm
I posted this back in 2010, but I think it's still a good post and I so it deserved a rehashing. I've updated it for today. For people whose goal is an agent and traditional publishing, you might be ...
How to right social media mistakes 20 May 2013 | 02:30 pm
By now, you've probably heard about the Amy's Baking Company debacle after the owners of Amy's appeared on Gordon Ramsay's US version of Kitchen Nightmares. If you haven't, here's the very quick run d...
Newsletters for Authors 14 May 2013 | 10:06 pm
Newsletters. You should probably have them if you're a published author. But when I sat down to write this post, I felt overwhelmed. Newsletters are overwhelming. And that's with me having designed, ...
Marketing Tactics for Authors 9 May 2013 | 01:14 am
Last week I talked about how your readers are your brand ambassadors. People commented about their own experiences with authors who were less than gracious, as well as good celebrity encounters that w...
Brand Ambassadors 4 May 2013 | 01:30 am
Years ago, I worked with a guy who had worked for Apple, or so it said on his resume. His position was "brand evangelist." I remember thinking, an evangelist is a real title? WTF is that? I don't kno...
80s Mix Tape: A Bright Spot in the Brown 15 Apr 2013 | 02:30 pm
A lot of poopy stuff happened one day a few weeks ago, but when I sat down to write my 5 quick things about the day, what I remembered most was dancing in the late afternoon sunshine. Which wasn't po...
