If you haven’t been to Writing Camp before, you may not have heard of the Nutheads. These are girls who write crazy amounts of words in one day. To become an official Nuthead, it is required that you write at least 17k words in one day. Most of us at camp are not nutheads. However, […]
Getting Over a Blank Page
How do you start writing? How do you get from that blank page to a page with words on it? You have your ideas, you have considered all sorts of things, and now you are ready to write. But how? You have opened that blank document and that little blinking line seems to tick down […]
Clean Your eBooks!
It’s the start of a new year. It’s time to get things cleaned up and organized. There’s one thing that often gets neglected and today I’m going to challenge you to clean that area. Ready? Let’s get started! Got your broom and dustpan ready? Perhaps a mop and a duster? Great. Sounds like you’re ready […]
Tips on Creating Realistic Goals
Registration for the King’s Daughters’ Writing Camp opens on Thursday! And with registration comes picking goals for writing camp. (Of course these goals can be changed later.) But how do you set realistic goals for writing? There are many different types of goals you could set. But which one?! Let’s break this down into a […]
How to Run a Kindle Sale in Canada
Today I have a special guest! Courtenay is going to share something that all Indie authors should know. And if you are a reader in Canada, you might be interested in this too. Even if you’re neither of those, you might find this interesting. Kindle Countdown: How to Make Sure Your Sale is Reaching ALL […]
The Great Battle of TBR
Do you ever feel like you are constantly fighting a losing battle against the every growing, ever widening pile of To Be Read (TBR) books? Does it sometimes feel hopeless and overwhelming to know which book to read next and if all the books on your kindle, or your shelf or your list are even […]
How I Plan Blog Posts
I wasn’t planning on writing a post like this, but after the talk and brainstorming many of us at KDWC did about blog post ideas, I thought perhaps someone might enjoy seeing how I plan my blog posts. The first thing is to get a calendar. I like having a calendar that is in book […]
Mobi, ePub, or PDF?
I had this post written, edited, and scheduled to post. And then I went to the link I was planning on sharing with you all . . . And discovered that my post was obsolete because the website had changed something and you could no longer do what I said you could do. Such is […]
Formatting a Kindle Book
When I first decided to turn my books into kindle books, I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t own a kindle, or anything else that could read a kindle, so I didn’t know what they were supposed to look like. At the time I was publishing my books using CreateSpace (now part […]
Books by Audio
Join the fun of the Indie e-Con! Testing, testing . . . 1–2–3. Can you hear me okay? Should I adjust the volume? Oh, hello. Join me in the studio today as we talk about audio books. In this era we have access to so many ways to publish books that it can get a […]