Practice Safe Blurbing
I recently bought Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door, in part because of its Gone Girl-esque cover but mostly because it had some of the most impressive testimonials...
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I just read Heather Demetrios’s Medium article “How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying.” It begins: If just one person had sat me down...
From Dead in the Water to Favorable Winds
Wade and I recently returned home from two glorious and relaxing weeks on Mount Desert Island, Maine, home of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. While we were there, we visited...
Professionalism and The Indy Author
A local library is soliciting applications for an author expo that invites participation from both “professionally-published and self-published authors.” Who can guess why that...
The Scalability of Your Craft and Your Voyage
A common discussion point in the project management world is the scalability of a process or operations or technology. For example, if you’re installing an email system for a...
An Epic Review … and Author Etiquette
On November 21, 2017, Russell J. Sanders left this epic review of The Sense of Reckoning … Matty Dalrymple’s The Sense of Reckoning is apparently the second in a...
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