The Return of Tech Thursdays
Technology is changing at a rapid pace, and while I don’t claim to have all the answers, one of my passions is making technology a bit easier for the layperson to understand. When I try to talk about some of these changes on social media, I’m also hearing...
Authors Need Grief Coaching Too
There’s something very powerful about putting your story, fiction or nonfiction, out into the world. It’s a vulnerable place, one that can cause a lot of grief. It’s a place that can dash your hopes and make you doubt your dreams. I’ve been...
Leaning Into The Energy of Creativity
I’ve been hiding something from you. And I admit, I’ve been a bit ashamed, not sure how my audience would receive it, and yet what I’ve been hiding has been screaming inside me to be let out, that I’ve seen all sides of the publishing industry...
The Truth About Being Everywhere
Our fractured social media environment with its algorithms and volatility makes authors, and other creative small business people, feel as if they have to be on all the platforms all the time. And yet, even longer than ten years ago, the idea of being everywhere...
Take A Break With Transition Tasks
I don’t talk a lot about productivity very often because I don’t feel that it’s an end-goal in and of itself. However, there is something that I’ve learned over the past year that has really helped with my productivity and the way I feel about...
Selling Systems vs. Creating Systems (of Creative Care)
I subscribe to a lot of newsletters, in part because a lot of individuals are doing some amazing things within the writing community. It’s innovative; it’s interesting, and as someone who has been both on the publisher and on the author side of this...
You Can’t Do the Wrong Thing
Authors face a lot of self-doubt and fear. One of the biggest questions authors ask themselves–and I’m no stranger to this one either–is am I doing the right thing? We worry about our marketing strategy, whether we’re not doing enough or not...
Books, Lies, and Black Friday
My inbox started to fill on Monday with the Black Friday sales. Today, I had to laugh when I got an email from a company that said it was the “last days” to buy something at 50% off, because you know what? They sent an email last week that said it was my...