August certainly arrived with some heat. Where I live it’s been hot and humid even at 6 a.m. I think I’ve been in saunas that are a lot cooler. At least today is less muggy and it’s been wonderful to turn off the air conditioning and open all the windows. As I didn’t want…
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Keep Your Eye on Your Book Categories
Like me, I know many of you self publish your books so I wanted to share a recent experience with you. Well, actually it’s a recent frustration and I’ve still no idea how it happened. First of all, I’m a huge fan of Amazon KDP. It’s the first platform I upload my books…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Hot Summer Days
Is it scorching hot where you live? It probably is if the weather reports are anything to go by. Where I live it’s hot and humid…never a good combination. I’m just glad I got some outdoor chores done earlier in the week. One good thing about hot muggy weather is you stay inside and as…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Summer Break
Another workshop finished today and now I have six weeks until the next one begins. Lots of chores are calling my name…lots of writing projects are also calling my name so I won’t be idle. Yesterday I released the first of two new writing books I recently worked on. The first one is about writing…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Scrabble by Candlelight
Wow, what a week it’s been. Late Tuesday afternoon, a huge storm rolled through town and we lost power for about 16 hours. Luckily there wasn’t any damage like the storm back in 2013 but it isn’t until you’re without electricity that you realize how much you rely it for so much. No computer, no TV, and no lights…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Almost Summer
Summer starts next week and I think it’s the perfect time to look at the goals you set for the year and maybe make a few new ones. There’s too much pressure on you when a new year starts so this is my favorite time to evaluate (and maybe even re-evaluate), what I set out to…
Summer 2016 Reading List
One thing I love about summer is going outside to read a good book. Last year I put 20 books on my reading list but this year I’ve been more realistic. Ten books have made it to my 2016 summer reading list. A few of them were actually on last year’s list so hopefully I’ll…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Dictation Software
It’s almost summer reading time and I’m thinking about the books I want to put on this year’s list. I was overly ambitious last year with twenty so this year I’m cutting down to 10. I’ll share my picks with you in the next week or so. Seems like I’ve been writing non-stop and my fingers…
Been Rejected and It Hurts so Bad?
The dreaded rejection letter. The writer’s equivalent of a dear john letter. They’re a necessary evil that goes hand in hand with being an author who’s continually writing and submitting their work. I’ve had my share of them and once I even received two in one day. Ouch! Another time I received someone else’s…
Monday Writing Prompts-Travel
This writing prompt is about travel and your chance to practice your dialogue writing skills. Your character boards an airline and sits next to a very interesting person who engages them in conversation. What do they talk about? What does your character learn about this person and what information do they manage to drag out…