by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | Encouragement, General, Nonfiction
© 2021 Kayleen Reusser For several months in 2020, my writing routine floundered. By the end of summer, I got myself in gear. I organized my work schedule to work on three projects simultaneously. This was not as intimidating as it might seem. I had written three...
by admin | Feb 2, 2021 | Encouragement, General, Marketing, Nonfiction
© 2021 Heather Mertens We love to give gifts to others. Yet we sometimes forget that we’ve all been given gifts to share, and I’m not just talking about the obvious ones. One such gift is sharing through writing. I think the true description of writing should be...
by admin | Jan 2, 2021 | Encouragement, General, Marketing, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Publishing Strategies, Social Media
© 2021 Karen Sargent Launching a book is hard. I’m almost always on somebody’s Facebook launch team because I want to help my author friends find my reader friends. Here are a few tips I’ve learned that will help you introduce your book to the world: SET...
by admin | Dec 3, 2020 | Business Strategies, Encouragement, General, Marketing, Social Media
© 2020 Patricia Durgin At a conference recently, a stranger asked, “Aren’t you Patricia Durgin? Your programs are so helpful. Thank you.” Service initiated those kind words.Are you serving your audience? Not only via written words but also through live,...
by admin | Nov 3, 2020 | Editing, Encouragement, Fiction, General, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Technology
© 2020 Kay DiBianca I thought novel-writing would be easy. After all, my grades in English class had always been good, and I was a voracious reader. How hard could it be? (You can stop smiling now.) Jumping into the world of writing was great fun. But it soon became...
by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Encouragement, General, Memoir, Nonfiction, Research
© 2020 Harriet Michael “Gather up the fragments … that nothing be lost.” Recorded in John 6:12 (KJV), these were Jesus’ instructions to His disciples after the feeding of the 5,000. I think of them every fall as I busy myself gathering the fragments of summer produce...
