A Few Dollars Well Spent to Fix Up Your Blog

"It's a bit of a fixer-upper." Looking to update your blog? Want it to be sleek and modern without having to learn all sorts of coding languages? Me, too. I just created a new blog for a road trip my hubby and I are taking this summer, and to make it look as pretty on the screen as I envisioned in my head, I enlisted some very affordable help. I purchased a template over at creativemarket.com,...

How to Use Audible Promotion Codes

If you've taken my advice and made our book into an audio book through ACX, you've been given audiobook codes for free downloads to give away review copies. The upside is that you can give your audiobook to people for free. The downside is that the promotion codes can actually be used for any book, so giving away the codes might not help you find reviewers. Here's a video tutorial shared with me by...

On Rejection, Investing in my Dreams, and Being Happy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4495072850 I had something of an epiphany today in the wake of yet another rejection letter from the folks at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and it feels like an epiphany worth sharing. Here it is: Writers are insane. Perhaps you’re thinking, “That was your epiphany? What rock have you been living under?” Fair enough. It’s a well known fact...