7 Links To Help Every Writer With Taxes

 Maybe it seems a little early to start thinking about doing your taxes, but it’s been my experience that the sooner you get on it, the less stressful it can be. Thankfully there are people and web sites out there to help us slot all those numbers in the correct places on the correct forms [...]

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Avoiding Dragons With a Training Budget

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. How often have you overspent on a “deal” that was guaranteed to help increase your income, but left you broke instead? How many times have you lacked the funds necessary to buy that eBook that could teach you ways to [...]

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A Fool And Her Money

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. The saying goes, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” I’ve lived that saying for a long time, unfortunately, so when I saw The Money Book by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese I wondered what sage (unusable) advice I [...]

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Marketing Monday: Multiple Streams Of Income

If you don’t already know how important having an ebook is, then perhaps you want to check out this post: Ebook Buyers: Can You Afford To Lose Them? For the rest of you, I’d like to make a quick suggestion: don’t stop with ebooks. On the Enneagram my husband is a 7 and I am a [...]

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7 Links To Help Every Writer With Taxes

Death and taxes, the two unavoidables in life. Thankfully there are people and web sites out there to help us slot all those numbers in the correct places on the correct forms and keep us from having to visit with a friendly IRS agent because we’ve gotten “creative” with the numbers. Here are 7 links [...]

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Dropping The Safety Net And Following The Dream

I’ve been thinking about moving into a full-time freelance/independent author career a lot recently. The question that keeps coming up, though, is, “am I willing to give my all?” Being self-employed means independence — at a price. That price can be financial security. Being your own boss can be great, but unless you’re ready to [...]

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Painful DRMs And Ebook Pricing

I am not an early adopter. I love gadgets, but I like to wait until most of the bugs have been worked out. Then I wait a little longer until I’m sure it’s a tool I’m really going to use and not a toy I’ll toss aside in a couple of months. So I was [...]

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3 Ways to Get Free (Or Almost Free) Training

I’ve blogged about using a training budget before, but sometimes you may find your budget is hovering around $0. What do you do then? Spend time trolling through other author’s blogs, especially those who offer eBooks (and other types of media) covering topics you’re interested in, and prowling over social media networks. There are three [...]

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Game Called On Account of Computer Crash

I don’t know if Major League games actually end due to rain, but I know Little League games do — or used to. (It’s been awhile. ) It seems that sometimes our writing time does to, though it’s usually not because it’s raining outside. Last Friday afternoon was on of those days for me. I [...]

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Avoiding Dragons With a Training Budget

How often have you overspent on a “deal” that was guaranteed to help increase your income, but left you broke instead? How many times have you lacked the funds necessary to buy that eBook that could teach you ways to improve your marketing strategy? If you’re like most Independent Authors, myself included, the times for [...]

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