The Best Gift for Authors During the Holidays
The best gift for authors isn’t something that costs a lot of money. I’m not pushing you to buy any of my courses or book any sessions with me. There are no holiday discounts. That’s because the best gift you can give the author in your life is the...
Take Advantage of Free Verification on Bluesky and Mastodon
You can be anyone you want to be on the internet, and it’s true. I once ran a short-lived social media account for SuperDuck, my pet house duck. As far as I know I’m not a duck, though my duck thinks that he’s a “people”. Meta allows you...
How To Write When Your Mind Goes Blank
One of the most frustrating symptoms of my ADHD is when I’m writing a blog and my mind just stops. My mind goes blank. That train of thought has left the station without informing me of its destination, and I’m left staring at a blank screen wondering what...
Why You Need To Backup Your Writing Beyond The Cloud
When it comes to making a backup of your writing, it’s easy these days to default to saving it in the cloud. Services like OneDrive or Google Drive make it easy to keep copies, but with companies selling your data to train AI, increasing threats from political...
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...