July 15, 2010: Great American Book Coaching Tour, traveling from Portland, OR to Santa Rosa, CA. Down the twisting, turning Hwy 101, of course. The plan was to hop on the even more windy Hwy 1 once we entered a truly scenic section of CA. That plan seemed to be waylaid when Joe (Creative Director, [...]
Woo-hoo! Wow – what a great turnout last night for the “Chocolate & the Art of Publishing” Book Clinic! I’m blown away with all the great questions you presented. Here’s just a sampling of what people asked: Q: What is the best way to market an eBook? A: By their very nature, eBooks are limited [...]
We lost Wifi… (Listen for the collective gasp…) Thus this post is coming a little late. As you can see from the pictures on this page, I had a fantastic time at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. And I discovered I’ve been using the wrong Twitter hashtag the whole time… So if you’re on [...]
Shocker today. The training at the Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference has been stellar. The faculty outstanding. The count is now up to 6 people who have asked me why I’m not on faculty (wait for it…). So yesterday I’m pitching my mom’s book, Lindy’s Gluten-Free Goodies & More!, to Debbie Marrie, acquiring editor for Strang Book [...]
Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference – Day 2. Today was full! Full of fun, toys, chocolate, great connections, and more people asking me why I’m not on faculty. Too funny! Truth is, I only recently found out about this conference. I’ve been attending more business and internet marketing conferences than anything else. This is my [...]
I’m going to try blogging more regularly. This week it’s BRCWC – Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference. So far I’ve met Jerry B. Jenkins (such a nice guy), the acquiring editor for Strang, hung out with one of the faculty (who I didn’t know was faculty for the first two hours), and met a bunch [...]
The SIMPLE10K conference was this past weekend. Yes, I was expecting it to be amazing. And I was NOT disappointed! From Bob the Teacher’s debut as a starfish (and later The Wizard of Oz, no really, he was the Wizard!) to finally getting to hear Felicia Slattery speak in person after knowing her for over [...]
In 2004, my husband and I worked for a financially troubled publishing company. When they laid us off, we had no income for 6 months. Later, I began sharing how we had made ends meet. They encouraged me to share our money-saving techniques, but I could not find the time to write. After an accident, [...]
Traditional publishing, that is. I’ll admit I am quite fond of the option to self-publish, but this article I read recently just stressed my point that that Traditional publishers invest so much money in bombed celeb books it leaves very little, if any, for the beginning author – another reason to get your start by self-publishing [...]
If you followed the pattern of some families this past holiday season, you buckled down, didn’t spend much money on extravagant gifts, and focused more on creating memories and less on the material things. Even so, you may not have been able to resist that last-minute stocking stuffer. Or the “That’s so perfect!” reaction to a point-of-sale display. Or like me, you may have gotten a little too excited about the eBay auctions.
