Many aspiring and published authors balk at the idea of getting involved in social networks. My clients continually tell me they donāt want to have to āsellā themselves and their writing via social media nor do they want to āwasteā their precious writing time on this endeavor. So, when I found myself at BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 in…
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Some of the best articles Iāve written came out of the issues I faced in my life. Not only that, they solved those problems for me and for other people who faced them as well. Thus, your life issues may be the best article idea file you can find. In other words, look to your life for article and essay…
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More blogs become books every day. Why? Publishers see them as successfully test marketed book ideas. If the blog has enough unique readers, they assume it will also attract book buyers. Not everyone agrees with the premise behind blogging a bookāwriting a book and building author platform at the same time (and maybe even hoping or trying to get discovered…
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Iām not a football fanāat allābut I spent the afternoon and evening yesterday keeping my husband company as he watched the Super Bowl. I watched the commercials and the halftime show and kept a running commentary on them on Twitter as I pigged out on junk food. With the exception of the dip and chips, I found the time actually…
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Recently I reminded myself of how I began my career. I wanted to be a writer. I did not want to be an editor. In fact, I wanted to write fiction. (Imagine that.) Some of you may have heard me tell the story of how my mother said, āOnly really good writers can make a living as novelists.ā I took…
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