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Writing Your Book, part XI: Marketing Your Work and Yourself

Okay, first I want to say that this is now a Very Good Series, because it goes to eleven….

In my last “Writing Your Book” post I discussed the read through and the need to learn to self-edit. Faith has written recently about revisions, and I’ve covered similar ground in past pasts. We can [...]

Writing — Facing the Mountain

Misty is enjoying the sun-drenched beaches of Somewhere, USA, so I’m filling in for this week’s post.

Last week, we did a lot of posting leading up to ConCarolinas — things to do or say, things not to do or say, networking tips, etc.  Here we are on the other end, and for me, that means [...]

Energized!

Sorry to be posting so late, but I only returned home last night from a week-long vacation that culminated in a terrific weekend at ConCarolinas, and I’ve been scrambling to deal with everything from getting our daughter ready for sleep away camp (she left this morning at 6:00) to retrieving our accumulated mail.

Thing is, all [...]

Networking

With Misty and Faith talking about Cons and with ConCarolinas starting today, I thought it might be helpful to discuss networking.

Networking is, quite simply, the act of building business relationships. That’s it. It’s talking and laughing and sometimes even drinking. It’s lunches and dinners and talk in the hallways and elevators. [...]

More on Cons

To build on Misty’s post yesterday (and maybe steal some more of Stuart’s thunder {grinning evilly}) I’d like to share my view on what a Con offers attendees—other than just pure fun. There is always that. In fact, as you read, add the world fun to the top of each list. But a con offers [...]

FanFun!

ConCarolinas is nearly upon us and MW will have a great showing at the event. Misty Massey, David B. Coe, Stuart Jaffe, AJ Hartley, and Faith Hunter will all be at CC and have set aside three hours, (so our panelists, our fans, friends, and writer pals can come and go as their schedules require) for a drop-in, [...]