Publishing journey

• Are You Branded?

  Writing a book? That’s hard. Figuring out the author site, the social media thing, the marketing? Hahahaha. I think this is true of many authors (and other artist types), but it is more true for some of us than others. To counteract my tech unsavvy, I have leaned upon my children. This month I asked…

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• Would you like a rating system for your romance fiction?

  Movies have a voluntary rating system. Books, not so much. We may argue about the way the movie rating scale has changed over time or the usefulness of the MPA’s system, but the ratings provide at least a starting point when choosing what we’ll watch. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be…

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• Publishing my first book?-Can we call it a “soft opening?”

  For more than a year I’ve been writing and editing this first book in my Illusions Series. During the beta reading and editing of this first book, I wrote the second. And then I read somewhere that it is a good idea to have a “book magnet”–a smaller work that you give for free. So,…

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• Invite Anyway

  A while ago I read a book by Deborah Tannen entitled, You Just Don’t Understand: Women andMen in Conversation. She explored/researched the different ways men and women communicate.In communication, as in many other ways, we truly are from different cultures. Funny as itseems, this book actually helped me understand my conversations with my mother more…

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• My Foray Into the Twenty-first Century

  I’ve decided to join the twenty-first century. That means that I have a smart phone; I have dabbled in social media (still experimenting), and now I am beginning a blog. It took more time to choose a title than it will take to write my first post. I wanted a title that reflected my aspirations…

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