Friends, I have some big news! Justin Baldoni / Wayfarer Entertainment have optioned the film rights for my novel, My Hands Came Away Red. This novel—the passion project of my …
Writing
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This post is sponsored by Grammarly. I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because, while I am an award-winning author now, I am still not nearly wealthy enough to …
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National Public Radio in the USA used to do a segment called This I Believe, featuring short pieces on people’s most passionate and strongly held beliefs. The essays that resulted …
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A friend sent me a tweet recently that said … Bad writing day? Probably not this bad: http://www.salon.com/2012/06/27/my_book_was_a_bad_idea/ This article in Salon tells the story of someone who quit her …
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Do you have a friend who has written a book? Do you want to support them, but aren’t quite sure how to do that? Since I released Love at the …
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Yesterday I laid out the details of what I’ve spent self-publishing my latest book, Love at the Speed of Email. So far, it’s cost me about $3500.00 to bring this …
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What is it about money that makes talking about it so hard? As I sit down to write this, I feel like I’m about to write a personal post about …
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When my first book, My Hands Came Away Red, was published, I fell prey to an addiction that afflicts many authors at some point during their publishing career. It’s a …
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This post was published on Chip MacGregor’s blog last week. Chip is the president of MacGregor Literary Agency, and my agent. His blog was recently named one of the best …
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Last Wednesday I wrote about the challenge that marketing can be for self-publishing authors. I asked what you would do if you were in charge of marketing my memoir, Love …
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When I signed the contract five years ago for My Hands Came Away Red I had ridiculously little idea about what went into getting a book out there. As far …
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Last week, after a string of awful nights, I decided to write a children’s story. The fun I had writing this little story did not make up for the exhaustion …