For a long time, my blog has been a place where we connected over stories, writing, life, love, and the worlds I create — from Love in Space to island romances and everything in between. But lately I’ve been craving something a little more personal.A place where we can talk, not just read.A place where characters don’t disappear when the post ends.A place where readers can feel part of the story world — not just
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The best lesson I learned this year. Listen when people tell you to recover your book and update it. My editor had told me a couple of times to update and recover the book because it had good content that people were missing because the cover was outdated. My mindset was they weren’t buying it now what’s the point. Wrong mindset. This year was the ten year anniversary of Building Online Relationships. I finally decided
This week I reached 1000 page reads on Love In Space. One of the things I loved about Kindle Vella was being able to see when someone read my story. You could literally watch readers move from chapter to chapter. And for some reason, that was comforting. When a reader buys your book, you don’t really know if they ever read it—unless they leave a review or reach out. Most times, that never happens. So
I kicked fear off the couch this week and uploaded Love In Space – Baila’s story to Amazon, KDP. The pre-sale began, and readers began to purchase copies. I started the day at #50 in Black and African-American Science Fiction and ended with #33 in. Black and African-American Science Fiction. It was also #5 in Science Fiction New Release. The dream is coming true. LaShaunda Hoffman is going to be a romance author. I’m excited
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With Building Your Readership I’m putting on all the hats when it comes to publishing the book. I’m doing the formatting of the book. I created the eBook cover of the book. Last weekend I created the print cover for the book and ordered a proof of the book. It came in the mail last Thursday. I can say I’m super proud of my efforts. I found a few issues with it, so I made
When I started my writing group 15 years ago one person showed up for few months. Eventually two more joined. One was a published author and the rest of us were trying to figure out our journey. The group started as a Christian writing group but we all realized we wrote other things and eventually decided to call ourselves a mastermind. 15 years later we all are published and working on more books. It wasn’t
Last year I set goals for myself, but I didn’t write them down anywhere. They were in my head. Sometimes I have a bad habit of doing that, so this year I decided that I was going to write them down here on the blog, so I would have a physical reminder of what my goals are for 2025. I would like to publish eight books – two books a quarter. I would like to
My first lesson with Vellum was figuring out which style to use for the book. I didn’t have a clue. I did a search on popular fonts to use and got a few recommendations. I asked a few questions in the Clubhouse rooms because I couldn’t figure out why what I had on screen didn’t look like what I had in the pdf. It was all about the styles. I sat with it and played
This week I need this affirmation because I’m working on completing the season of Love In Space. Sometimes I get inside my head, and I shut down my writing muse. Here are a few things I do to start up my creating juices. Finding my writing process has been hard because I was used to writing when I wanted to. Writing when I want doesn’t work for episodic books because you need content daily or
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