I first wrote this five years ago. The post remains relevant! There are a number of reasons why readers don’t write reviews of books. Below are five. As I evaluate my progress over the past years in the world of independent publishing and mark off checklists (website –check, blog – check, email capture – check, […]
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Not everyone understands the benefits of blogging. Whenever I complain about not having enough time to do everything I think I need to do–family responsibilities, writing and publishing books, writing articles and submitting them to magazines, marketing, maintaining my website, and blogging—my husband, the accountant, asks: “What has the potential to make the most […]
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Happy birthday to me! It’s my birthday. You reach a certain age and giving gifts becomes more important than receiving them. What can you give someone who has everything? I plan to celebrate my birthday by taking two of my grandsons to see Toy Story 4 then out for a treat. However, there is something […]
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What do you do when life knocks you down? Get up and dance! At least that’s what the members of the Reese family and their friends strive to do. Sign up for my email list and receive the first book of the Dancing through Life series for free! Meet Sara, a senior at Michigan State […]
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As the queen of goal setting, imagine my surprise when I went to look for my 2017 writing goals and didn’t find any! Yes, I had gone a whole year without having any goals written down. How had that happened? I really don’t know. I guess I was busy with other things and forgot. This […]
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In the fourth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a maze that the students compete in that changes it’s pathways as you walk through it. This means that you can’t go back the way you came in because that way no longer exists. Driving my car […]
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I’ve had a great July. I focused on writing the first draft of the next novel in my Dancing through Life Series. The only problem is that in order to do that, I had to neglect other aspects of writing and life. You might say, I’ve been robbing Peter to pay Paul. Now I’m playing […]
Read More“I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.” Gustave Flaubert Or in my case, I spent the morning peering at my back cover and deciding to change one word in a quote from my book. I sent this request to my cover designer in the morning, then looked again at […]
Read More“When you write your goal, rewrite it just a little bigger.” Kristen Lamb My writing goals for 2015 were simple and doable: To continue writing, both fiction and non-fiction. To explore audiobooks. To write a Kindle series. To become profitable. I’ve been fairly successful at completing these. I have continued writing. I’ve written and self-published […]
Read MoreI’ve been called the queen of goal setting in the past. Yes, I love to set goals, almost as much as I love making lists. And I take great pleasure in looking at those goals to see which ones I have completed and can cross off my list. As I mentioned last week, I’ve been […]
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