Blog Touring
While losing popularity, blogs remain one place where writers can reveal their personality and talents. Blog tours help spread writers’ names through using our time and talents versus costing lots of money.
Continue reading →Cynthia Kraack
Cynthia Kraack is an author of fiction and nonfiction including The High Cost of Flowers, winner Midwest Book Award, and 40 Thieves on Saipan.
Summer Doldrums
Marketing a summer release is an uphill climb. Promoting a book, keeping up with social media, and working on the next release claim more than forty hours a week at a time when everyone is pushing for days off.
Continue reading →The Night Before the Book Launch
Twas the night before the book launch, when all through the house All the creatures were stirring, except there’s no mouse. The clothes are all hung in the closet with care, In hopes that they’ll fit and no one will … Continue reading →
#MyWritingProcess
If you’re interested in how other writers manage their creativity, or just curious about writers, click on #MyWritingProcess and enjoy reading.
Continue reading →Workhorse Words
I felt silly how many begin with one word: “the”. A dictionary of words could be used and I grabbed an overused, wimpy, workhorse.
Continue reading →About 90th Birthdays
Writers don’t have the opportunity to retire. If our minds are working and the words still flow, we don’t dare turn off our computers or throw away our notepads and pencils.
Continue reading →Skin in the Game: Marketing Expenses
The dirty little secret for most writers is the road to success is a whole lot like the South Park’s Underpants Gnomes model….
Continue reading →Speechless in Snow
The very thought that almost eight thousand people have taken the time to shoot a little video about shoveling leaves me speechless.
Continue reading →From a Hospital Room
The view from a hospital room is always the same—a bright spot suggesting that everyone else is moving along on a normal day.
Continue reading →Journaling
In the blogosphere opinions run strong about the best way to journal. A Google search culled out 148,000,000 blog entries about the topic.
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