4 Links To Overcome Publishing Despair

The road to publication is filled with pain and tears… bloodshed… mayhem…. I’m being melodramatic here. Of course, that could just be that I’ve recently read several posts about how painful the publication process can be and how difficult it is to write good fiction. Here’s a small sampling: “This is literally years of work you’re seeing. [...]

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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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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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Success Feels Like Failure

Last Sunday I had a wonderful thing happen in my absence at church. My mother (who is one of my biggest fans ) took my book to her Sunday school class and, for lack of a better description, “marketed” it. Before the class was over there was a volunteer to write up an article for [...]

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Hardcover vs Paperback

As with all other aspects of independent publishing, the choice of published format abounds. Do you choose hardcover or paperback? If you publish with a traditional publisher, they will most likely make the decision for you. That can be a good thing if you have a hard time making decisions, but it could also mean [...]

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Love It. Hate It. The Great “Indie” Debate

Love it or hate it, if you’re a writer you can’t ignore it.  It’s the debate on whether being self-published is valid or not and whether we should continue to call ourselves Independent Authors or Self-published Authors.  After reading Victoria Strauss’ “Why You Are Probably Not an Independent Author (or, Another Post for Which I [...]

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Fear Not: Discovering God’s Promises available

I am so excited!  I just discovered my first book, a Bible study, is finally listed on Amazon.com.  Fear Not! Discovering God’s Promises For Our Lives was born from a need in my church for an adult VBS class that had no curriculum.  I spent two months putting it together and then an anxious seven [...]

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Hello world!

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  Sometimes I wonder if the person who coined that phrase wasn’t talking about writing as a career choice.  Only a select few get rich and famous.  In fact, most of the late great authors either published their own works or had to wait until [...]

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