Social Networking and Book Publishing
Selling an e-book (or book) is easy in many writer’s minds, they will often believe that they have a large number of family and friends to count on and don’t worry about any social networking sites until it is too…
Becoming a Writer
Most people tend to over-think a lot of things when they think about becoming a writer. I am part of a much older crowd and tend to look at life in a much more black and white way. I know…
Where Is The Best Place to Promote Your Book?
Not Twitter. Not Facebook. Not on Google Plus. Not with family or friends. No, these aren’t places you should (overly) promote your book on. These are places, and people, you can have comments and chats with about you and…
Musings on Living a Life of Writing
Today is the day- Living a Life of Writing just turned six. A lot of other blogs have celebrated sixth birthdays this year, so this probably makes us “old”- but given that this blog became a website, we’d like to…
Writing No Pain, No Gain?
Exercise can bring out the best and the worst in a person. It can also help or hurt the other commitments in your life. This month I’ve made a commitment to get more active. Normally, this is something where…
When You Talk All I Hear is Blog…
When you start writing for a blog it’s a lot like a gateway drug… or so I’d assume. Having never actually had any experience with drugs or anything like that, I can tell you that blogging quickly becomes an addiction…
Breakout Blogger
A couple years ago blogging was a foreign concept to me. I had read the occasional travel blog by a friend, but the idea of an ongoing blog seemed rather…
When You Blog, Is it Better Content or Increasing Traffic?
I was asked this when you are writing your blog which one of these things is more important to you: the content or the writing process? For me, this was an easy answer: the content is more important because people…