Easing The Frustration of Navigating Website Changes
One of the biggest frustrations I hear from authors who are working on their websites is that WordPress can be complicated. Finding the right plugin, determining what features you need or want, updates and security, all of that takes time and knowledge to navigate....
Episode 25: When To Tackle Projects On Your Own?
You’re thinking about publishing a book, or perhaps starting a subscription story, or maybe a newsletter, or some new social media. But when do you use existing publishers, software platforms and packages, and when do you decide to do it yourself...
Unpacking The False Dichotomy Between Assistive and Generative AI
NaNoWriMo created a shitstorm (of their own making) when they released a statement on AI driven by their sponsorship by ProWritingAid, which has been used as an automated grammar checker, but now has unspecified AI features. (Pivot to AI) In this statement, NaNoWriMo...
How to Not Make Your Subscription Site More Complicated Than Necessary
There’s a rush right now for authors to create a subscription site, especially if they write erotic romance, erotica, or other works that are not welcome on Patreon or many other platforms. I am here for it! I am loving it! And I am cheering you on! The dust has...
How To Cultivate Subtlety When Writing With Purpose
When someone thinks of their life’s purpose, they imagine some big, bold undertaking, a passion project that reverberates for years after someone’s gone. And yet, our purpose, and especially the purpose we put into our writing, doesn’t have to have...
What Political Texts Taught Me About Author Newsletters
A common concern among authors is how often to send their newsletter. They want to keep readers informed, but they don’t want to bombard them. This goes hand-in-hand with the worries over how many times to post on social media. Again, authors don’t want to...Finding Sustainable Writing With Your Creative Neurotype
There’s a lot of talk in the publishing world today, at least in some quarters, about finding a sustainable way to create your author career. I’m all for that! I am one hundred percent behind sustainability as a path to being an author today. But in order...
Are you the consumer or what’s being sold?
The leading cause of enshittification of the internet is that the very people who use services like social media or crowdfunding platforms are now what’s being sold–not the service itself. We’ve gotten away from selling goods and products to selling...