One of the hardest lessons for me as an entrepreneur was figuring out that being a solo entrepreneur didn’t mean you have to do everything yourself. It was OK to get help. When I changed my mindset about getting help, I begin to see a change in my business. One way I got help was to invest in a coach. A coach helped me work on my business fears and showed me how to improve
Yearly Archives : 2018
One of my favorite parts of creating SORMAG was hosting the SORMAG Online Conference. It was an online conference for readers and writers. It started off as a seven day conference and moved to a three day conference over the years. It was my gift back to the literary community. It was also my treat to myself because I couldn’t attend a lot of live conferences, so I would invite all the authors I wanted
SORMAG Digital Fall Issue – Indie Publisher Meet some of the hottest publisher in the Indie Field. CLICK TO ORDER SORMAG – NOV-DEC 12 – Children Books Children Book issue – Featuring Children Book Authors CLICK TO ORDER
Over the years SORMAG has won a few awards. One that I was very proud of was our first award. We were selected by Writers Digest as One of the 101 Best Websites for Writers 2002! We’d been online for two years and for me that was a big deal because I worked my butt off to get the magazine in front of every romance reader I could find. All that worked was noticed by
In 2012 I moved back to Digital – PDF and Print. Our first issue featured Rochelle Alers. CLICK TO ORDER Our current issue is the Winter Issue – Children & Young Adult Books CLICK TO ORDER
This month I would like to share with you the history behind my path to becoming a Social Butterfly. 20 years ago I started my journey on these online streets. I didn’t have a clue about being online I just knew it fascinated the heck out of me and I didn’t have to go anywhere to meet new people. It actually was a blessing in disguise because I was a new mother with a husband
I want to share five lessons I learned about promotion when I became a published author. # 1 Promotion is about building relationships. If you have no way of capturing the readers, you meet you are making promotion harder for yourself. It’s like you are promoting to the wind. I always say start the mailing list before you tell anyone about your book. When you start to meet, readers ask them to join your mailing
Yesterday I was chatting with a friend and she reminded me how long I’ve been in this literary business. I think sometimes people forget that I’ve been doing this for 20 years versus the three years I’ve been published. I decided I’m going to revisit my online history for Black History month. I will share with you how I did all of this in the last 20 years. 20 years online I’ve learned: How to
The last shutdown was the longest they ever had. I was nervous about my job and paying bills. I prayed and decided that I could do more with my time instead of worrying. Here’s a few tips to help you in this shutdown. Get some groceries – you don’t know how long the shutdown will be. Use this time to write. Instead of sitting around waiting – WRITE Work on your business – something you’ve
I completed my read through for my manuscript. I must say I truly enjoyed the story and look forward to improving it. My next step is the world building and adding more content before it’s ready to submit to an editor. I also need to find an editor who edits Science Fiction, so that should be an interesting hunt. I love the world building part because I get to create my own planet. My planet
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