Sometimes when I’m in the middle of editing a project instead of drafting I will turn to writing exercises to get my brain working in new ways. This is a fun way to keep myself sharp and continue to write new words even while editing old ones. This month, since I am actively editing the... Continue Reading →
New Year, New Journal! I celebrated the start of 2024 by getting rid of my old progress journal and jumping into a brand new one. This brand new one has three sections and a LOT of cool features. Let’s see how it worked for tracking progress. Section 1: Individual Projects For January I decided to... Continue Reading →
September is over and fall is officially here (in my part of the world, anyway). Of course our temperatures are still dancing around the 100 degree (Fahrenheit) mark despite the shelves at stores being full of pumpkin flavoring and all things orange colored. Sometimes, it’s hard to believe we’re already in October. Never-the-less that means... Continue Reading →
One of these months I’ll manage to post to this blog regularly for things BESIDES just analyzing how I did during the month. Apparently, August 2023 was not that time. I keep telling myself I’m going to post to social media more, actually film some of the (amazing, if I say so myself) TikToks I... Continue Reading →
I did a post once about things authors do that are red flags to reviewers. But something I didn’t mention in that post is the mistakes authors make AFTER contracting with a reviewer. An author sent you their book, you agreed to review it, that should be the end of the interaction. Except sometimes it’s... Continue Reading →
Well, July is over. We’re officially, inarguably, into the late half of 2023. Shocking, right? It’s time to take a look at what I managed to get done in July and make plans for moving forward in August. Let’s talk goals. If you’ve been following along with the blog then you already know that for... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I posted about red flags book reviewers may encounter that would warn them away from working with an author. Well, that’s only one side of this relationship.
I’ve been thinking of writing a duology of blog posts for a while now, one where I talk about the red flags associated with the reviewer/author relationship.
I just went searching back through my old documents and in the MOST 2021 move ever … it seems I never actually posted (or looked at) my second quarter stats in 2021. Is that right? It doesn’t seem right, but here we are. SO today I’ll make sure I compare the 3rd quarter (which just... Continue Reading →
This morning on Twitter one of the hashtag games I play had a question about an accountability buddy. Basically, this is someone who would hold you accountable to your goals. The idea is that this person would give you the impression that someone is waiting for your work, eager to read it when you’re finished. ... Continue Reading →
