Have you ever seen a beautiful infographic and wonder how it was made? Here is your guide. Anyone could get some benefit to creating infographics, especially authors. Book Promotions It would be nice if I could hire a designer to create character and land artwork. But, I can’t. I don’t Read more…
I’ve gotten a bit off the path…more than a bit. These past two years I’ve been as poor as J.K. Rowling pre-Harry Potter (and I have a job). It’s been one of those things that make absolutely no sense. I got 2 master degrees to avoid this situation. But, there’s Read more…
You know how some shows would start with “Viewer Discretion is Advised?” I’ve seen a few books do something similar. At the end of summery, there’ll be a line like “this book contains graphic scenes.” I see them mostly for fantasy romance stories, letting the reader know there’s sex in the book. I’ve Read more…
Book titles are about as difficult as taglines. It’s like someone asking you to describe your book in one word. I usually come up with the title after I finish writing. In the case of The Sciell’s Legacy, I created a working title to talk about the story online and the Read more…
Not too long ago, I noticed my Pinterest account gets 1 million monthly viewers. This isn’t like Twitter where I have 4,000 followers but only like 5% of people visit my blog. Pinterest has been magic for my blog. It’s not perfect. I still have a lot to learn. Certain Read more…
Time for some social media auditing. Sounds dull. It really isn’t. Time to look at my accounts and see what’s working and what’s not. This is not about what’s selling books because honestly, none of them are. Well, actually, you can’t really tell that. One or two social networks might Read more…
Just realized I let life kick me off my path. I’m still publishing books and marketing them but I’ve been doing the minimal amount of work. I’m not writing as much as I used to, nowhere near. I make plans but don’t put them into action. If you feel you’ve Read more…
You think life can’t get any worse then life proves you very wrong. You find you don’t have the energy to do much of anything. You only want to sleep but when you do, you wake up feeling like you’ve been running all night. Writing, something you love, becomes a Read more…
I recently read an article where the writer said they judge authors who publish 2+ books a year, claiming there’s no way those are quality stories. It takes me a year and a half to get any book in my Merging Worlds series ready for publishing. Since the stories are 500+ pages, Read more…
Anyone else binge watch more shows on YouTube than Netflix? Don’t even watch actual TV. Of course, when I want to understand something, I go to YouTube. Sometimes, I’ll spend an evening watching author vlogs (video blogs). They’re entertaining and they give good advice. Want to watch vlogs but not sure Read more…
