Do you find writing a book an intimidating task? I did when I first started writing. Some days I still do! Blank pages seem to mock you or fill you with anxiety. You start and finish a few pages and then you decide you are unhappy with what you have written so you revise for hours. Those hours turn into …
How to Promote Your Book and Gain Fans
You’ve done it! You’re holding your published book in hand. You (and possibly your ghostwriter) worked together, finished the book, and now you are ready to get it out to the world. But how do you promote your book? What comes next? Shout it from the rooftops! Book buying is a relationship activity, and you need a means to develop …
Overcoming Overwhelm
In my almost 20 years of editing and writing, one of the biggest problems I’ve seen my clients deal with is overwhelm. I had a moment of overwhelm this morning, and as I was going through my steps of resetting and moving forward, I thought you might deal with some overwhelm too. What does overwhelm look like? It’s when you have …
Be Kind To Yourself: Writing
I was hot, sweaty, and tired of packing. Finding a story I’d written in college seemed like the perfect reason to take a break and focus on something else. The five pages were wrinkled, smudged with dirt, and ripped on the corner near the staple, but they represented something important. That paper was the first story I ever wrote that …




