Today we are going to talk newsletters because it is a subject that is a great mystery for many of my writer friends. I’m going to be talking about it some because I’m just going through the process of reworking mine. Now my newsletter is not very big. I’ve got like thirty subscribers, however I...Read More

Marketing is a challenge for authors. We are, at heart, writers and artists, and most of us bristle at the notion of having to talk to people. Introverts unite... separately... at home. However, as per my previous blog, we aren't able to ignore it and be successful. This, however, doesn't mean that all marketing is...Read More

A dear friend of mine recently had an experience at a bardic circle (a musical event where folks sit around a campfire and perform to each other) where a group of semi-professionals who didn’t care that it was someone else’s turn decided to shout her down and sing over her. Now, my friend is a wonderful...Read More

Social media has revolutionized how we relate to each other as a culture and a society. I can share my thoughts, impressions, feelings, and silly photos with the entire world if I want to. Not that the entire world cares, but I can, which is unprecedented. I’m thirty, so I’m old enough to remember the dawn of...Read More

I encountered someone from one of the many writing groups I’m part of who was talking about how trying to market their book on all the various platforms and trying to keep up with social media was destroying their writing time. Many people were telling the author to “just write and ignore the rest; it’ll...Read More

RANT INCOMING. THAR SHE BLOWS. So I have a Twitter account I use regularly to connect with other writers for both social and business reasons. Part of it has to do with platform building, part of it has to do with social interaction. We all know I never leave my desk, so Twitter is the...Read More

I’ve answered this question a dozen times over the last few months. Frequently enough that I felt it warranted a blog post, anyway. I keep seeing folks who ask the question of whether or not they should have a separate pen name for every genre they write in, and every time I see it, it...Read More

I’ve been being bad and hanging out on Twitter lately when I probably should be doing other things. I keep telling myself that it’s market research, but mostly it’s cat pictures and blogs about writing. Now that I’m blogging about it I can at least pretend it was time well spent. Everywhere I turn on...Read More