I submitted my Mik Murdoch: The Power Within manuscript a few months ago. I will admit, when I emailed it to my publisher and editors it was with a sigh of relief and a hope for some downtime. What I always fail to do is consider all of the other stuff I have going on all the time. Yes, there is family, and house and work, but I’m talking about trying to move the writing career yardstick forward. That means, podcasting, blogging, more writing, submitting, editing, revising, plotting, and networking. Did I mention website, promotion and marketing? I didn’t? Well, those also need care and attention. I have attended no less than four conventions since turning in the manuscript. I have […]
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Newsletter
I’ve been talking (and thinking) about a newsletter for the website for the past few months. The problem with that is, neither talking nor thinking about something actually gets it done. So, the other day, while riding the train home I started putting together the newsletter on my iPad. But, what to put into it? Obviously, updates on my own progress with my writing – people wouldn’t have subscribed if they didn’t want to know about my various projects, would they? But, it has to be more than a means to shill out my work. There has to be something special that subscribers will get that no one else can. So what did I come up with? Well, in fact, […]
Read moreChanges
I don’t like to do change for change sake, but occasionally it becomes clear to me that what I am doing currently isn’t working. “What I am doing” could be anything from my writing schedule to the time I get up in the morning for work. There have been a few things that seem to be out of sync lately and I’m not exactly sure why. For example, I can’t seem to get ANY kinds of comments on any of my projects. That includes comments on my Wattpad work, reviews of my books, comments about podcast episodes or even my blog posts. Is that because I am so vanilla that people simply don’t have anything to comment on? I don’t […]
Read moreA New Look
After 5 years, I decided it was time to try something a little different with the site. This is just the basic theme; I will be doing additional work on it as I go. I like it though. It is clean and concise. What do you think of the site’s new appearance?
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