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NY Times Bestseller!!! – AND – USA Today Bestseller!!! Woo hoo!!!

I’ve seen quite a few authors make the New York Times bestseller list and/or the USA Today bestseller list so I wanted to know what all was involved in doing such a thing. Lots, of course. Lots of sales, lots of promotions. Lots of everything. But one author did it by putting together her stories […]

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“My Blog SUCKS and I’m Kinda Clueless” – what you need to fix your broken blog

THIS blog is THRIVING – but a lot of other blogs aren’t. Every day I get emails telling me how much I was able to help out another blogger or author. It warms my heart, and I thank you all, because YOU are a large part of why my blog is successful. The ways to make your […]

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I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: An Exercise in Show Versus Tell

I know, that title is childish – but it got your attention, didn’t it? That’s a lesson re-reminded to me from the “Blogger’s Butt” post we ran yesterday. A good, catchy title brings readers to your post. Remember that. Sometimes I forget. You guys often get all excited when I explain a particular aspect of […]

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Why YOU Should Join A Critique Group, You Arrogant SOB

I was an arrogant writer when Savvy Stories came out. Still am. You have to have an ego to put out a book and expect strangers to spend money on it – and enjoy it and not return it and not laugh at you and not… You get the idea. I laughed when I was […]