I realize the official harvest moon isn’t until October. However, if you planted green beans, squash, cucumbers, beets, carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach, or have a rhubarb plant nearby, well, you’ve been harvesting. An artist, (dancer, painter, sketcher, writer), needs to harvest a little, (see photo, right), like yours truly. Find joy in the fact you’ve…
Have you ever run smack into a writer’s block had no idea where your story is going? If you’re a pantser, the answer is probably, ‘Yes!” Even if you’re a plotter, the answer might be, “Yes, but don’t quote me on that.” It happened to me when I was doing NaNoWriMo 2018. My inspiration had…
There are so many things about your writing career you can’t control, but there’s one big one that you can—your author photo. As soon as you declare yourself a writer, you’ll get asked for it. You’ll upload it to your author website. You’ll splash it across your social media platforms. It’ll be printed on your…
It’s finally here! Publication day for RMFW’s 2020 anthology, WILD!!! After working on this project for two years, Natasha Watts and I are thrilled to share these 14 stories with the world—and especially with you, our fellow members, who make RMFW and its publications possible. We’re so grateful to have gotten the chance to read 78…
Welcome back to my three-part series on do-it-yourself book marketing. Today we do the heavy lifting of getting those emails. I want to be brutally honest with you, though. There are no shortcuts to getting a good email list. It may be slow. Before we begin, however, I want to talk about being of service…