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What to do at a Book Launch

What to do at a Book Launch

Your book has been edited, the cover design is completed, the layout has been finalized and proofs provided. The novel is set to release, all your hard work is soon to be revealed to the world. This is the big moment that you as a writer have been waiting for. Are you...

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Balancing Stubbornness and Humility

Balancing Stubbornness and Humility

In any creative field, there are going to be people in life that tell you not to pursue your dreams and there will be those that encourage you. It ultimately becomes a fine line of balancing stubbornness and humility in our minds. Sometimes we do steer too far one way...

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Texting or Email for Work?

Texting or Email for Work?

Updated June 03, 2020 Should you be texting or email for work? Which one is the right method to send information to someone? It is a grey area for many people. If you start asking your colleagues, you will find there is a wide a range of opinions on the proper...

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Distractions and Time Management for Writing

Distractions and Time Management for Writing

Everyone is busy, let’s face it. We all have things to do, places to go and people to see. We have difficulties dealing with distractions and time management for writing. Especially in the western civilization, we are overstimulated with tasks on a day to day basis at...

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Top 7 Tips for Series Writers

Top 7 Tips for Series Writers

Check out the Top 7 Tips for Series Writers on Scribbles, Quibbles, & Scrawlings website. There are 7 authors including my contribution. The authors are: Rob Boffard Jenna Greene Konn Lavery Rebekah Raymond Kelly Charron Tyner Gillies Pat Flewwelling Top 7 Tips...

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Keeping Organized when Writing

Keeping Organized when Writing

Let’s face it, when writing there is a lot of stuff to keep track of. You have to fact-check, keep consistency with places, times, descriptions and events. This becomes even more complex when you are working on genre fiction like fantasy or science fiction because you...

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When is your book series done?

When is your book series done?

As a follow up from the “When is your book done?” blog post, I wanted to expand on writing series. When you are writing a single novel it is can be a bit easier to define a beginning, middle and ending. Knowing the answers to these questions is more challenging when...

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