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  • OK, time to eschew the facetious, especially given the fine responses that have been offered. Jill, I feel your pain and often it's hard to remind myself that self-dou...
  • I was in the airport, heading home from a quick trip to Las Vegas. I scribbled down an impromptu page of impressions from the trip - here it is on a slot machine in th...
  • "• ask questions. Let's stop assuming we know who the readership is for a given book and start...uthors do sit around and talk about this. I've met a few who are well connected to the "mac...
  • Deborah – Thank you so much for asking. My summer has been one long reallocation of my mental and physical energies. While I may exit the office, stray into places in...
  • Hi Kamy, I've been self-publishing for 20 years. Usually, I hire private book designers, editors and printers. This is expensive but I always liked the one on one inte...
  • Amen Kiana.....while many often get dazzled by the proposed prestige of being published, the truth is the written media is changing. Parallels can be drawn to other me...
  • Bach performed live. Big Sur waterfalls. Small and large miracles:      Recovering in the middle of a park, an undamaged hearing aid the size of two fingernails – as I...
  • Hoovering often does it for me. The loud whirr and whine of the machine drowns out all the background noise of a chaotic household and allows me the freedom to think!
  • What a coincidence - I get on the elliptical machine to work off writer's block too! Before we gave up cable I used to exercise while watching the cooking channel - co...
  • I likes to borrow the advice from Julia Cameron. She speaks about coaxing our inner child and that really works for me. I believe in treats, rewards, and bribery. At h...