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  • Thank-you ever so much!!!  God, I would feel like I was walking on air for months if I ever got a book deal.  Honey, don't worry about the voices in your head - they'r...
  • Awards MIGHT matter. I got 3rd place in the Writers' Digest contest out of 19,000 entries, a fact I bring up when I teach how to win writing contests. I've also won Be...
  • If I could afford it, I'd take classes my whole life. I got the college degree major for my parents. The MA for the job and security.  But now, I'd love to just take c...
  • My heart aches for you. There is a difference between entering a contest (winning by votes or not, after all that's what Goodreads is, right?) that judges your work an...
  • I have a private blog where I write down ideas that might be of use later. I am also working on revamping the first few chapters of my manuscript. However, I find myself procrastinating on this and venturing out onto the internet instead.
  • I got a tremendous amount of information about Amazon marketing from Tim Grahl. He has books on the topic and a wonderful internet series that seems timely, practical, and relevant to the marketers that we also have to become as authors. Best of luck to you!
  • Eileen, that's a great question, and as you probably know, a huge can of worms. While...azon may believe that if it can keep those publishers from moving to an agency model, Apple will choose not to se...
  • I write about my kids a lot in the realm of what I am learning about myself through parenting them. With that said I do not reveal their names. (This is for their priv...
  • Ohhh, I just saw some of the other posts. I am going with the free Create Space ISBN, because (1) I am a poor writer (lol) and (2) at this point, I only intend to sell...
  • I was just feeling like a social media failure this morning when a well meaning friend asked me why I had such a low turn out on my blog -he asked why wasn't I promoti...