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Such Excitement Will Never Come Again…

A proof of my novel, is scheduled to arrive in the mail today. In case you missed the point – a copy of my book (smelling of fresh ink and  [More…]

Writers Are Weird

Publication is a result of writing, not the goal

Hanging out with Elizabeth Berg and John Steinbeck in Positano, Italy

I have never been a person who has cared about money, or perhaps more accurately, I have never cared about having an excess of money. My financial goals were basically  [More…]

ePublishing – What I Would Have Done Differently, So Far

When I started this blog, I promised to share the process of publishing an eBook with you – both the good and the bad. Well, my book has only been  [More…]

Censorship and the Young Writer

I probably started writing at around the age of 12 or 13. I vaguely remember writing about a girl named Tony, which I thought was really clever. A girl with  [More…]

Quiz – Should You Become a Writer?

I turn on my laptop this morning, check Amazon for sales for my novel,  (over 20 now – Woo Hoo!), and somewhere along the way come across a website with  [More…]

Preparing Your eBook for Submission

You have decided to submit your book manuscript to Amazon for possible publication as an eBook. Great! But before you do, be sure to do the following things: 1. Rewrite.  [More…]

Using Business Cards to Promote Your eBook

Does a writer need business cards? That was a question I pondered as I began to think about ways to promote my ebook, [amazon_link id=”B004JU21YU” target=”_blank” ]Life is But a  [More…]

Promoting Your eBook

Self-publishing means self-promotion. Out of necessity, writers must withdraw from others in order to write. Long hours spent in silent contemplation result in words written. As an introvert, time spent  [More…]

Writing in the Dark

For years, I wrote in secret. Scribbled words in notebooks, and then graduating to neatly stacked typed pages – all words that no one ever saw but me. If someone  [More…]

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