Uncategorized Day Ten – Tallahassee, FL to New Orleans, LA 21 Apr 2014 You haven't seen anything from me for a while because my family is on a month-long road trip to celebrate my husband's retirement from the Marine Corps. Join us on…
Books… 5 Tips for Free Book Promos 24 Mar 2014 1) Be strategic about the timing. Link your free promo to an event like Mardi Gras, the Daytona 500, Pi Day or whatever makes sense for your book and genre.…
Writing Researching the Novel – Crowdsourcing 19 Mar 2014 When doing research for your book (and I'm talking strictly about fiction), you basically have three choices: Do it yourself, outsource it or crowdsource it. Crowdsourcing is putting a question…
Books… B.Y.O.P – Be Your Own Publisher 10 Mar 2014 I've been blogging about my trials and errors in this writing thing for a couple years now. From a post about discovering Kindle Direct Publishing and unearthing a long-lost novel,…
Books The Lexyverse: What you need to know 26 Feb 201427 Feb 2014 Thinking of jumping into the world of Lexy Cooper? Feeling apprehensive? Well, let me help you. I’m going to provide you with some background and general information so you can…
Books Get two Lexy books for 99 cents 13 Feb 2014 The third Lexy Cooper novel, Griefed, is just two weeks away. It's totally okay if you want to jump into Lexyworld with this book, but do you really know anyone…
Writing Working with an Editor and Proofreader 3 Feb 201431 Jan 2014 Right now my most excellent Empress of Editing Marti McKenna is deep in the weeds of a second pass on my upcoming book Griefed, getting ready to hand off what…
Writing Multiple POVs: Keeping it real 21 Jan 2014 My first book The Sleepless Nanny, was written in the first-person from the protagonist's point of view. It's basically the easiest, most natural way to write, and a good place…
Books… The Art of the Cover – Griefed 15 Jan 2014 It's sort of a funny story--now--but at the time it stressed me out so much I was losing sleep over it. My cover artist was missing. I found Brett Parson…
Books… Soundtracks for novels? Heck, yeah! 10 Jan 201410 Jan 2014 I made Spotify playlists for each of my three Lexy Cooper novels— "Schooled" - Lexy's Playlist, "Pwned" - Lexy's Playlist, and "Griefed" - Lexy's Playlist. I start creating the playlist while I write…
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