How do, RMFW? Shannon Baker and Jess Lourey here again with the Lourey/Baker Double Booked Blog Tour redux. Between us, we’ve published over twenty books (S: I love saying that because I get the credit for the bulk of the publishing Jess has done.) Shannon’s latest is the second book in the Kate Fox mystery…
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How to Avoid the Dangerous Trap of the “Perfect Writing Life”
We all have that one dream in our heads. You know the one. It’s the dream of the perfect writing life, the one where you don’t have a day job or a house to clean or a car to fix or errands to run. Instead, you have hours of empty time you can fill as…
The Critical Importance of Look Alike Words
A word from Conan the Grammarian: Concerning the Critical Importance of look-alike words, or similar or commonly mistaken words. Learn the diffs! As Conan has often admonished writers, this is not advanced rocketry or even higher mathematics. In no particular order, these words often appeared incorrectly in this year’s contest manuscripts. Stanch & staunch The…
Pack Up Your Media Kit and Smile!
As I sit down to write, I’m remembering that game we used to play as kids—the one where someone starts by saying, “I’m going on a trip and in my bag I packed…” You sit in a circle, and the starter names one item with each player listing previous items in turn and then adding…
Engaging Your Newsletter – Subscriber Quality Matters by Stephanie Reisner
We all know that building a newsletter email list is an essential part of an author’s marketing toolbox. Your list provides one thing your social media doesn’t. A direct line to your readers. See, Facebook and Twitter, they purposefully don’t show your posts to all of your page or feed subscribers. So unless your readers…