“It doesn't have to be perfec!”
A grandson used to say that, "It doesn't have to be perfec" when he and I were coloring together. He was four maybe? I used to think that, since I have no kids at home any longer and my Dearly Beloved is gone on the road most of the time, that I had to fill each and...
Author Ad Results
Here they are! My author ad results with Written Word Media: Hello and Bargain Booksy. By the way, no affiliate links were used in this post. If you’ve read any of my previous journal entries here, you’ve maybe gotten a feel for what it’s like to be an author....
Journal Entry 2/19/2025
Affiliate links included in below article. This was in a new book. I’m never sure if I like it. Even if the sketchbook (Affiliate link), journal, media book is exactly like the one I had been writing in, it never feels the same. It’s never … used. Never feels good....
Rescuing my book, Rescued
rrThis isn’t fun to admit but for eight years now, I have struggled with book two, Rescued (Affiliate link to Amazon, or purchase here direct from me!) in my fiction series. From the very first edition after publication in 2016, the interior wasn’t right. There were a...
Struggling to know what to write …
I want to write. Today. Something. I am struggling to find my way after publishing Resurrected. I have a stack of books beside me: A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, and The Ancient Book of Enoch … by Enoch … and Ken Johnson, Th.D...
Shopify Short Study
A couple of months ago, a reader texted me with a few pictures of her order. Yay! Hopefully another satisfied reader. Always happy to hear how their order went. She’d ordered books. She got black beads from Oriental Express. We laughed. Kinda. How does something like...
A New Plan
Finally. I have had these notes since August 6, 2024. There have honestly been other things to do. As an independent author, I get to create an author business plan, market, write, clean up my office, clean up my website, publish my books, republish them when Apple...
Breakthrough
This has been bugging me for some time—maybe months. How do I sell books, increase income to support the business and pay bills, promote myself to sell those books, get my books out there? And all the while lifting up the name of Jesus. How do I do that? I realized...
Creative Rest
I am exhausted. With over a week spent at my sister’s to help her rehab from hip replacement, to the very next day an author event and some driving, to yesterday tearing out all my tomatoes, beans, and cucumbers and cleanup. I am exhausted. Last week while still at...
Being a Better Publisher
I finally uploaded Resurrected, the sixth book in The Great Escapee Series today! Everywhere! Yesterday I spent the better part of the afternoon working with Publisher Rocket. I was determined to take the time to figure out categories and keywords for the last three...
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