Tag: Tue Cent Twosday

  • Tue Cent Twosday

    We are driving up to the Pocono Mountains today to visit with family.  In the meantime, I wanted to share some marketing tips from fellow author, Mandy Roth.  Here is her article, \”Author Marketing Tips and Tricks.\”

  • Tue Cent Twosday

    Publishing and writing are two different parts of the puzzle.  They\’re not the same thing and shouldn\’t be approached as the same thing.


    Writing is a creative art.  It\’s image-intensive, using the imagination to create stories and poetry.  Even non-fiction is as much art as science, as connections are made between facts and figures.  There are many tools to help us keep the channel clear as we create.


    Publishing is a business.  It\’s about producing product that customers want to buy.  It\’s changed a lot in the last fifteen years, from the consolidation of traditional publishing houses to the explosion of ereaders and ebooks.  Genre definitions have blurred and fractionated because the internet allows authors to give readers many different tags for a particular book that would be impossible to duplicate in a brick-and-mortar store.  


    It\’s important to remember that these two \”jobs,\” if you will, aren\’t the same and that they require different skills.  Luckily, there are many places to learn the skills that will help you succeed at both, but the firs step is to recognize the differences between them.

  • Tue Cent Twosday – Research

    The Nine Naughty Novelists blog hosts Rachel and I today and we talk about the pitfalls of research, as well as tips for success.  Join us!  \”Researching Beyond the Internet.\”

  • My Tue Cents for Twosday

    I think it\’s easy to get sidetracked.  I talk to authors who complain, \”I don\’t have time to write.\”  While I don\’t think they\’re lying, I do think they\’re not speaking completely honestly – to themselves, at least – about what their time is like.

    When we settle down and are honest with ourselves, the reasons for not writing aren\’t, usually, about time.  They\’re about fear, or block, or the inner critic saying that we have nothing worth writing.  But they\’re not about not having any minutes in the day to set fingers to keyboard or pen to paper.

    So today, ask yourself this:  What would it take for me to get onto the page today?