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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11 Resources to Make Editing Your Novel Easier

As if learning the craft of writing a novel isn’t difficult enough, after it’s finished you’ll need to edit it. If you’re going to be traditionally published, you’ll probably work with an editing staff to make your work marketable. But before it gets to that point, you have to get it past the slush pile [...]

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Christian Fiction Indie Authors Successful In Kindle Top 100

There’s a lot of conversation around the Top 100′s in Kindle sales and it’s mostly surrounding mainstream authors. I was curious about the Top 100′s in Christian Sci-Fi and Fantasy, so I took a peek. Here’s what I found. Top 11 Christian Sci-Fi and Fantasy The first seven books listed in Top 100 Paid were [...]

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Marketing Monday: Self-Promotion HSP-style

“People forget what you say, but they remember how you made them feel”–Warren Beatty Caring for others, wanting to help our fellow humans, comes rather naturally for highly sensitive people, so why shouldn’t promoting ourselves and our products be just as natural? Most likely because we’re thinking of “selling” rather than “marketing.” Sell: to persuade or induce (someone) to buy something: The salesman sold me on a more expensive model [...]

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Improve Your Writing with these Editing Tips by Dustin Wax

Sorry folks, but this cold virus is really causing havoc here, so I’ve decided to do you all a favor (read: not write anything in gibberish as that seems to be how I’m speaking today ) and repost Improve Your Writing with these Editing Tips by Dustin Wax. He’s got some great advice I think [...]

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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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Ebook Buyers: Can You Afford To Lose Them?

I recently read a guest post by Chris Keys, author of The Fishing Trip – A Ghost Story and Reprisal!: The Eagle Rises!, about the difficulties of selling self-published books.  According to Chris, he’s only sold about a dozen books.  It seems typical of independent authors, but here’s the catch: I looked for Chris’ book [...]

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A New Year, A New Beginning

Happy New Year! I apologize for being absent during December (ACK!). My only excuse is being super busy, unfortunately not with my current WIP. However, it’s a new year and time for a new beginning. Here’s what I’m planning for 2011: Get back to weekly blog posts: After reading Kristen Lamb’s blog for the last [...]

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Publisher’s Weekly Decision A Wake-up Call

Publisher’s Weekly has announced that they will begin “showcasing” self-published books in a “special” quarterly supplement — for a price. That price includes only a listing and brief book description, no review unless you’re one of the few the staff deems “worthy.” Worthy? I’ve read plenty of highly acclaimed traditionally published books that I found [...]

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5 Self-Publishing Lessons I Learned From My Toddler

It’s amazing, being a mother of a toddler, how much this little girl has taught me in just the 1 1/2 years she’s been with us. What’s even more amazing is that many of those lessons can be applied to self-publishing. Lesson #1: Anything worth doing takes time. My daughter has been a little slow [...]

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