Today I celebrate one year as a published author and as a book publisher. I want to share a few lessons I learned on the way. Everybody Is Not Your Reader – I teach this to my promotion clients, and I’m so glad I constantly reminded myself of this lesson daily. You want everybody to buy your book but everybody is not going to buy your book. Especially those you supported in the past. Just
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If you know me, you know I love a good group. I even host a few groups myself. I’ve made some amazing connections from the groups I’m in and I’ve met many clients from these groups. For the next few Thursdays, I will be sharing some of my favorite groups with you. My advice is to check them out. See if they are a good fit for you, and then participate. Groups are about participating,
The I’m gonna bug has hit me this week. I’m gonna write, but it hasn’t happen. I’ve been working on the Produce*Publish*Promotion summit so that has my brain clogged. I found my research I did for the story, so I’m hoping that will help with creating new scenes. Next week is vacation time. I’m doing a staycation but I’m also going to turn it to a mini writer retreat because my mind has been on
I received the dreaded revision letter. I put off reading it for a few days. My editor sent me an email asking was I Ok. I laughed because I hadn’t read it so I didn’t know if I was OK or not. I printed the letter out and read what she had to say. Yes the manuscript needed a lot of work. I must confess this was draft 2 of the book, so it was
I told you all my exciting news of being picked up by Brown Girls Publishing. Now I have to share my sad/exciting news. There were a few changes with Brown Girls Publishing and I’ve decided to publish my own book. Yes I’m a little sad to not work with a publisher, but very excited to try my hand at publishing fiction. My book is currently with an editor and she informed me she would be
It hit me the other day that I’m a published author because of my mother’s death. I asked myself would I have walked past my fears if she were alive and I had to answer no. When she was alive I was afraid to deal with my fears. I wasn’t even acknowledging them. Her death woke me up to all the things I wasn’t doing in my life. She’d always believed I’d be published and
I read a good blog post I want to share here. Click the title to read. Top 5 Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs Make by Lamar Tyler He shared five mistakes most entrepreneurs make and I was guilty of all five. Take a moment to read his post, then read my response. I made all five of these mistakes. Fear was a big issue for me and I still struggle with it. However with most mistakes you
Today we are going to discuss self-promotion. This past week we loss a music genius, Prince, if you were on social media, you saw many people talking about him. They were sharing posts, they were sharing videos. They were sharing their Prince stories. They didn’t have a problem with talking about him and how his music touched them. Saturday night, Beyonce introduced her new CD – Lemonade. Social media went crazy again. Some people loved
When I decided to go natural I honestly didn’t think it would be a big deal. Man was I in for a rude awakening. I started a journey to learn more about me and my hair and what made us happy. When it came to my hair I never thought about it as being happy but as the years passed I realized that I had to listen to my hair and not to what
I’m always asked how to write a book. I always say, to sit down and write. It’s easy to say you want to write a book, the hard part is writing the book. Many people will leave this earth because they want make time to write the book that’s in there heart. They’d rather talk about it. I was that way for many years. I loved talking about writing, but I wasn’t doing much writing.
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