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What motivates you to write? Knowing what motivates you will help you focus and stay on task. Plus, if you know where to go to get motivation when you’re feeling discouraged, you’ll get out of any writing slump faster. You …
There are multiple short-term and long-term benefits of speaking events, especially when it comes to your writing career and even building your platform. For some, just talking about speaking events evokes some stress. That’s okay! You aren’t alone. Perhaps you …
Four Ways That Speaking Events Build Your Writing CareerRead More
‘Tis the season for baseball. And for taking a look at the baseball approach to writing.
Whether you and your family follow major league baseball, Little League, your local minor league team…or even if you are not a fan of …
We writers have a challenging job. We try to eat healthy, drink water, move our muscles and improve our health to keep up with the pace of marketing and deadlines without flatlining along the way. All are important for fitness …
Dreams chase us as writers.
We have vision to write words that will help others and the big dream that those words will actually be published one day. But when days turn to weeks, months and years, the insecurity and …
The team at Books & Such hopes you have a wonderful, safe Independence Day!
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We went to a fireworks show last night. The first time the fireworks shows have been going since Covid shut …
I’m sitting at my gate waiting for my overnight flight to take off from the Seattle Airport back home to Ohio. This is a perfect time to get this post written!
For the past few days, I’ve proudly served on …
Some writers find it surprising–or even constricting–to discover that publishing houses, agents, editors, and even readers care about a book’s word count. Why does word count matter? If my novel is 140,000 words rather than a traditional 90,000, is it …
I recently shared this information with a group of authors. The reason I talked about these things is because I have made so many mistakes as I built my own platform. I long for others to have a smoother path, …
16 Things I wish I knew when I started building my platformRead More
Several years ago I outlined these ten no-nos. With conference season in full swing I thought a refresher would be a good thing. Plenty of blogs tell you how to approach an agent, what to say and how to say …
