Looking for Inspiration
Some writers wait for inspiration to hit before they write. As a professional author, I can’t afford to wait, so I go looking for it. I found it on a recent trip.
Some writers wait for inspiration to hit before they write. As a professional author, I can’t afford to wait, so I go looking for it. I found it on a recent trip.
Anyone can publish a book. Amazon’s publishing company, Kindle Direct Publishing, has seen to that. However, the self-publishing road can be rocky if you don’t have a guide.
It’s been nearly a month since my publisher announced the latest round of bad news for my writing. The books weren’t selling. She was closing down the series. The news came while my husband and I were camping for our anniversary. You can read all about that trip here. When she announced the end of …
As an author, my overactive imagination is essential. While we were on vacation, several new story ideas prompted me to spend time on my tablet writing. If you’ve been following my blog, you know this is EXCELLENT and long-awaited news. This year, we spent our anniversary in Central Oregon and I’ll need to recount some …
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Mourning and Hope? I must be crazy. Those two things could not possible exist at the same time, so why have I paired them in a sentence? Friends, I’m in mourning. More on that in this post. But I’m not without hope even if my post “The Death of a Dream” sounded like it to …
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Ever since I started on this “author journey” I’ve considered what I was doing to be more the “indie author” path than the traditional publishing path. But this year taught me the truth. I wasn’t. Taking manuscripts from idea to published book BY MYSELF, as I’ve done with the three books in the REFLECTIONS series …
I am a published author. It’s my job to write all the things…and when I finish writing them, to write something else. For the first time in five years, I don’t know what to write next. That doesn’t sound too bad, right? But it is. Because I don’t know if I even WANT to figure …
Since shortly after I was old enough to read and imagine my own stories, I wanted to be an author. My first story was penned in a spiral notebook when I was in third grade. The past four years that I’ve been living the dream doing this author thing have been amazing. And instructive. And …
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