Tips and Advice About Writing and Self-Publishing
Happy April. The days are getting longer but the weather turned chilly again. I know spring’s out there somewhere. I had a week off from teaching and tried to use it wisely. I had the opportunity to e-mail and chat with one of my private students who I’ve been mentoring for about six months. It’s…
In recent Ramblings, I’ve mentioned lots of projects I’m working on and I can finally share a couple of them with you. The first one is another web site that I’d planned to use as a sister site to this one and have it focus on my self-publishing journey. I’m ashamed to…
Read more Go Self Published Launches (and so does my new journal/planner)
It seems like it’s been an odd week because it had a holiday sandwiched in the middle of it. I almost forgot that today was Friday. I spent a good part of the day outside working on upcoming projects. One of those is finally deciding what to do with a site I sort of…
If you’re thinking about taking this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge you might be interested in registering for the workshop I’m teaching for the Maryland Romance Writers…and no, it’s not just for authors who are planning to write a romance novel. I’ll share tips that will get you ready for when November 1st rolls around- …
Read more Taking the NaNoWriMo Challenge or Thinking about Self-Publishing…Maybe Even Both!
Welcome to summer…or winter if you’re in the southern part of the world. It doesn’t feel much like summer today but I’m not complaining because the cooler temps are just fine with me. This week I’ve been participating in an online retreat. Not a writing one, but workshops that center around creativity. One common theme…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Self-Publishing Made Easy
It’s been a hot week…and it’s getting hotter, and it’s also been a busy week. I got rights back to two stories that had appeared in anthologies five years ago. I usually like to give them a rewrite and polish them up some more. Some I like to give a total make-over. It’s amazing how…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Two Books Down and One to Go
It’s a beautiful spring day and I’m tempted to go outside and write but I’ll probably get distracted and nothing will get done. I set two goals for this past week. One was to get the first story in my new series Cowbear Haven finished and published. I achieved that yesterday. Here’s the cover. Once again,…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Another Short Story Class
There’s nothing more satisfying than getting another project crossed off your to do list. This week I finally got my rebooted story finished and actually published. Here’s the cover that I also designed myself. Something new I tried with this one was to enroll it in Amazon’s KDP Select. For those of you who don’t…
Today I feel like someone’s fast forwarded the calendar and it’s really the end of March. I sat outside on the deck and couldn’t believe that it is in reality only mid-February. The sun was shining and birds were showing up in the garden and singing a spring chorus. I guess they’re as confused as I am…
The first month of the year is slowly winding down which means the end of the first workshop of 2017. Two more begin Feb 1st and just in case anyone’s interested here are the links. The first one is the synopsis bootcamp which has reached it’s ten participant limit but I’ve given…
