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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...

Tools I Use in my Author Business

Jul 8, 2025

Writing and Editing I write everything in Scrivener (Affiliate link): the content of newsletters with Mailchimp and...

Where My Stories Come From …

Jun 14, 2025

Yeah. Where do my stories come from? Maybe from movies. Or from newspaper articles. Sometimes other books. I love to...

Creative Living

May 9, 2025

This is a book about the Creative Life. Duh. Well, that’s what the title says. Life of creativity. The title might...

Thunder Storms and Pondering Life

Sep 8, 2020

I woke up at 2 a.m.--the usual reason--bathroom. My body is aching because of all the yard work I did yesterday. I...

Book Blurb for Newest Trilogy

Aug 11, 2020

New trilogy. Katty’s trilogy. New book blurb. I don’t even have a book blurb for that series yet, but I need one. See...

Jun 30, 2020

Back Cover Blurb. Huh? I have written two blog posts about blurbs, trying each time to...

Book Blurb Two

Jun 16, 2020

Research I’ll reference the article on The Alliance of Independent Authors website. Still gaining insight there. I’m...

Book Blurbs–I’d Rather Write a Book

May 28, 2020

I’m digging into learning to write better book blurbs. Sounds fun, right? Book Blurb One I have book one, Released, on...

Smashwords Authors Offer Thousands of eBooks at Free or Deeply Discounted to Support Readers Affected by the Pandemic

Apr 21, 2020

Without our super distributors and aggregators to push out books, authors could not provide the deals offered....

Discipline during COVID-19

Apr 8, 2020

I have read on Twitter or Instagram where other authors have had a tough time with lethargy and exhaustion. Reading...

Journal Entry – Pandemic – 4/5/2020

Apr 5, 2020

Keep your heart brave! I'm up. I'm drinking coffee. My journal is on my lap. And I heard, "He's come to join our...

“Guts” is Grace Under Fire

Mar 28, 2020

COVID-19 is grace under fire. It's guts. From so many different platforms and lifestyles. My husband is a truck driver...

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