By Patricia Stoltey aka @PStoltey Geesh! I can already hear the groans. You hate social media. You can’t stand the thought of adding one more site to your daily list of “must” visits. And you would prefer to bury your head in the sand and make this whole business of marketing, networking, and engaging go…
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Beyond the Page: Your Writing Career
By Liesa Malik As a marketing professional, I’m always looking for the next great thing to grab attention and make my clients’ products or services successful. I watch for ways to build awareness and markets of buyers, vendors, and supporters, and believe that these efforts lead to financial success. That success often doesn’t come in…
The Bloody, Gory, Awful Choices We Make To Write Books
By Aaron Ritchey “Don’t demand that your art supports your life. Instead, make a promise that your life will always support your art. –Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, from her interview with Luc Berthelett “Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.” –Stephen King from On Writing Okay, so…
That Fleeting Magic
By Colleen Oakes It happened last night, in the middle of a long day of writing, editing and brain-storming. My writing buddy and I had hunkered down for a five hour session of hammering out the problems in our respective novels. Seriously, it’s such a perfect working relationship that it’s a little scary. This is…
The Road to Accomplishing Your Goals
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer Even if you are firmly entrenched in one path to publication like traditional publishing, you won’t find your journey is a straight line. Even those writers who sell their first book to the very first editor their agent approaches, often look back on the way they became an author and are…