This Writing Life 6: The One Rule to Writing

There is a plague of doubt that affects all writers. Some are affected once in a while. Others are affected on a daily basis. You sit down at your computer and you stare at the blank screen and as you begin to type you wonder: “Am I doing this right?” Well have NO...

Marketing True Magics 5: Target Audiences or Who Are My Readers?

The single hardest thing in any business is getting people to know you exist. And in this business, it can be very difficult indeed.  There were (on a researched guess because stats are hard to find) approximately 2,000,000 books published last year...

This Writing Life 4: Prioritizing and Protecting Your Time

It used to be easy to avoid distractions. Take the phone off the hook, put up a “do not disturb sign”, turn off the TV and don’t answer the door. Problem solved. Yeah, I’m old. These days, we live in a state of constant distraction, thanks to the Internet and all it...