By Pamela Nowak I am past my second year of using (or, uh, having) social media and stepping back to take a look at my progress (er…learning curve). I’ve had a website since I signed my first book contract, roughly eight years. It was updated as I added more books but I never really did…
Author: Pamela Nowak
Launching Your Book—What Works and What Doesn’t?
I’m about six months out from the launch of my next book and am working on plans for the launch. Call it a publicity plan or a marketing plan or a launch plan…it pretty much boils down to the same thing. The tough part is that I don’t have any true data indicating what works…
Publishing Options: How to Wade Through the Swamp
By Pamela Nowak I received a request for advice from a fellow writer. Poised on the edge of publication, she is looking at options. As I thought about how to answer her, it occurred to me how different things are now from how they were fifteen years ago, when I was moving into that stage…
Those D—- Workshop Proposals!
By Pamela Nowak The call for workshop proposals for the 2015 Colorado Gold Conference came out earlier this month, spurring my usual under-the-breath comments about preparing them. Workshop proposal forms force us to think and organize without knowing whether the effort will net results. It’s the reason we hate to fill them out, especially when they…
Change
By Pamela Nowak Change…it’s a quiet word, not really representative of all that’s associated with it. For each of us, it has a unique set of implications. Since I’m in a contemplative mood, I’ll spend today exploring them. When I was younger, change represented the unknown, with all its uncertainty. It was something I usually…