Make Your Author Newsletter Count For More Subscribers
A few months ago, I blogged about what political texts taught me about marketing. And then a recent article crossed my social media feed that basically said that consumers are opting out (as many as 40% a week) from marketing communications due to a few reasons. The...
When You Can’t Write, Give Yourself Kindness
I put 1125 words on my writing tracker last night, which goes by weeks, and realized those were the first words I’d written since November 2. Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why and even before last week’s events, I was dealing...
Now Is The Time For A Risk Audit. Are You Ready?
Publishing is always changing, but recent events have made it vital more than ever to do a risk audit for your author business. Let me be clear. Doing a risk audit isn’t succumbing to fear or scare mongering! Any business, regardless of the owner’s view,...
How To Interpret Headline And SEO Scores In AIOSEO
To those who don’t work specifically in marketing or technology, thinking about SEO seems like a Herculean effort. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization” and it is part of the way that readers find your website when searching for your name or...
Email Integrations To Save Time and Energy
How many devices do you keep a calendar on? And do those calendars all talk to you? How about emails and email programs? Are you logging into webmail clients for each address or do you have all of them come into one tidy app where you can keep track of your email? How...
How To Keep Writing When You Have Unsupportive Family
Unsupportive family members suck when it comes to your writing. Let me share a story with you. I had an aunt who had read one of my very first published books. It was bit of an add series; I’m still not sure it’d do well in the market because it combined...
Changing How You Think About Author Business Expenses Saves Time
There’s an old adage when it comes to business. You can either save time or money, but you can’t save both. And in some respects that’s true, but I also think that’s a bit of a false choice. And something I’ve been thinking a lot about is...
Are you excited to sit down and write?
I spend the first fifteen days of each month (my goal is 1000 words each day) working on my serial stories I release both under my fantasy pen name, as well as my queer erotic romance pen name. Today marks the transition from portal fantasy to my erotic romance, and...