Marketing to Your Target Audience
Finding the right people to buy your book can be really tricky. But it’s even harder marketing to those people. So let’s review some standing wisdom, as well as some not-so-conventional ideas for the...
View Article8 Weird Things You Never Knew About Me
I sent out an email awhile ago that asked my newsletter subscribers, “What do you want more of?” and definitely expected them to say, “Free books!” or “Book reviews!” or “Give me all the dragons!” What...
View ArticleDefining My Dragons: How I Created Mine
Have you ever Googled ‘Fantasy Art’ before? Whoa. Attempt only if you’re looking for paintings of naked women. But seriously. I can’t tell you how excited I am about the continued process with The...
View ArticleMy Editing Process
One of the questions I get asked the most is what my editing process is like. I’m always tempted to be brutally honest and say, “I have no idea.” <— That’s only a little bit of the truth. Really, I...
View ArticleHeartstone
To say that I love dragon books would drastically understate it. Seriously. Why else would I write THE DRAGONMASTERS? But writing well means a lot of reading, so in my ravenous search for new dragon...
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Podcast with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Show
I hung out with Lindsay, Jeff and Joe from SFF Marketing podcast and we had a great time talking about the YA genre, Wattpad, self publishing with a family, BookBub tips, and different launch/release...
View ArticleBeing an Author and a Military Spouse
Being an author is not an easy road. Creativity is often messy, so when you try to combine that with doing business and marketing and #allthethings, lines get drawn in the sand. Add kids on top of it....
View ArticleHow to Find Reviewers
Today, we’re talking about a hot topic. One that will always been hot. It’s been hot so long it doesn’t know how to get cool. Reviews. More specifically—how to get them. In the Facebook group Indie...
View ArticleThe World of Antebellum Wikia
One of the best things about being an author is the fans. Book blogger Evan Morgan quickly set himself apart as an uber-fan of the Network Series early in the series, and I’ve loved interacting with...
View ArticleLaunching Your Book in 2017
To say that things change fast in the self publishing world is a dramatic understatement. They can change overnight. But that’s a good thing—the market is always improving. Unless, of course, you’re...
View ArticleMarketing to Your Target Audience
Finding the right people to buy your book can be really tricky. But it’s even harder marketing to those people. So let’s review some standing wisdom, as well as some not-so-conventional ideas for the...
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8 Weird Things You Never Knew About Me
I sent out an email awhile ago that asked my newsletter subscribers, “What do you want more of?” and definitely expected them to say, “Free books!” or “Book reviews!” or “Give me all the dragons!”...
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How I Created My Dragons
I can’t tell you how excited I am about the continued process with The Dragonmasters: Part One. It’s clipping along beautifully and really started to take form from the great blob. But here’s the...
View ArticleMy Editing Process
One of the questions I get asked the most is what my editing process is like. I’m always tempted to be brutally honest and say, “I have no idea.” <— That’s only a little bit of the truth. Really, I...
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Heartstone
To say that I love dragon books would drastically understate it. Seriously. Why else would I write THE DRAGONMASTERS? But writing well means a lot of reading, so in my ravenous search for new dragon...
View ArticleBreaking the Scale of Hotness
Where the scale of hotness is concerned, I broke the rules and married someone way hotter than me. Before you throw tomatoes at me with You’re Beautiful Just The Way You Are written on them, let’s...
View ArticleWin a Kindle Fire 7
No strings attached. Literally. Sign up to this special email list just for this giveaway—but then you can unsubsribe in the welcome email and still be entered to win. Because no one wants to get...
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Editing for Indie Authors
Catherine Jones Payne, who runs the illustrious Quill Pen Editorial editing firm, joins me in a live Google Hangout to answer all the editing questions from the authors in my Indie-parent-geared (but...
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Stories for Nerds Podcast #2—Archetypes
Character Archetypes: The Goodly Hero My second guest appearance on the Stories for Nerds Podcast! Don’t miss my second appearance with the amazing crew over at Stories for Nerds. This time, we’re...
View ArticleInterview with YouTuber Claire Duffy
Check out my YouTube interview with screenplay writer, author, and YouTuber CS Duffy on hacks for Mom Productivity while living the Indie Author life! Follow CS Duffy on YouTube here Follow her on...
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