This post is putting the horse before the cart in a way. On Thursday, May 23, the following post went out in the She Writes newsletter:

If you lost your baby mere weeks before it was to be born, what would you do? Perhaps more importantly, what would it do to you?

Return to Zero is the first film ever created with stillbirth as its central theme. It has an amazing cast (Minnie Driver, Paul Adelstein, Alfred Molina, Kathy Baker, and more), but…

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by Sherrie Wilkolaski

Original version of this article published in Ms. Wilkolaski’s monthly column “Author’s Guide to Publishing” in IFWTWA’s “Press Pass”.

The holidays are upon us and thoughts of sugarplums and holiday cocktails are much more fun to dream about than worrying about what you’ll be doing in the New Year…

The holidays are approaching, there's no better gift than a book, and there's no better place to buy a book than an independent bookstore. In tribute to the many wonderful indie bookshops I have worked at and frequented over the years, I offer the following ...



As my debut novel, The Map of Lost Memories, entered the production phase at Random House, I was assigned the task of helping to find writers to blurb it. Blurbs are those lovely, self-contained snippets on the…

I'm so glad to see that other writers are posting to this blog. Mind you, I didn't actually examine the posts for typos, but guess what? I didn't see a single error--so much for the idea that writers who self-publish are somehow grammatically and typographically challenged!

I self-published two books of poetry, my own and my husband's, last summer. They're both on Amazon.com's Kindle store, and it felt so good to get them out there where they could be seen.…

by Sherrie Wilkolaski

It's hard to find a needle in a haystack, not to mention a diamond in the rough, but if you look hard enough, you'll find that Amazon offers a menu of free marketing tools for authors to promote their books.  These are some real gems and the investment will last a lifetime.

Have you done all that you can…

Newest blog tour from Lightning Book Promotions and the author is not certain of the exact release date for her book, but it will be in November. So if you interested I do know that it will be some time at the first of November and you can sign up using the google form below. This book has been tagged as: Family relations, Problem families, Mother-Daughter relationship, Child abuse, Coming of age-fiction.

 Looking for bloggers to host reviews, guest post, interviews, character…

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A few weeks ago, the annual EVVY award presentation took place through the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. For any author, winning a book award makes the writing and publishing process that much more fulfilling.

Over the next couple of…

Tracy:

Writing is great and stuff but I should get out more, you know, hang out with my boyfriend when he calls, and answer my guy friends’ messages instead of letting them go to voicemail.  I should keep my promise to go to SoWeBo with Brad and I should watch Katatonix and not make up excuses about why I have to lesson plan and do my bills- when all I really wanna do is write.

Muse:

Yeah but you can do all that stuff in your story.  In fact if you wrote about…

Camp Fire USA Executive Director/CEO Sandra Rutherford with SCE Federal Credit Union Foundation representative Shay Olivarria at Camp Miss Independent.

Saturday, April 21st was the…

by Sherrie Wilkolaski

Today we’re talking about LibraryThing, another social media vehicle authors can use to connect with readers. 

What is LibraryThing?

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from…

by Sherrie Wilkolaski

Social media marketing via Goodreads is a must for any author. 

What Is Goodreads?

Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world. They have more than 6,200,000 members who have added more than 210,000,000 books to their shelves. A home…

by Sherrie Wilkolaski

Launching a new book is exciting and it is the ideal time to do book signings.  Authors can do a book signing at just about any time and probably for the life their book, as long as it makes sense and you're prepared.  Here is a quick checklist of items to get you prepared for your book signing. 

Preparing for the book signing. 

1. Create your target list of book stores or event locations.  Make a list of about dozen…

by Sherrie Wilkolaski

As an author, you MUST take control of marketing your book, your brand and your platform. With the New Year upon us, what better time to make a change for the better.  Whether you're a first time author or a seasoned professional writer, it's always a good idea to get focused on your…

Nobody said the life of a writer would be easy but it must be a shock to every indie author’s system to finish the final page of their novel and realize that the work has only just begun! Never have there been so many decisions to be made in such a…