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WritersLife Wednesday – Author Website Design
Everything I’ve read about the subject says you must have an author website. It doesn’t have to be fancy, just a professional storefront...
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Aug 12, 20151 min read


Flinch-Free Formatting for Indie Authors
Some good tips. I’ll be adding my own on how to specifically format for kindle when I do that to mine and figure it all out 🙂 Cassidy's...
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Aug 12, 20151 min read


5 Years Ago, Where Did You Think You’d Be Now?
There’s an episode of How I Met Your Mother where the guys are looking back at the 3 year intervals and saying where they were then and...
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Aug 11, 20153 min read


Are you the gatekeeper?
Fantastic points many new writers, or old ones 😉 don’t even think to ask about. Mad Genius Club Recently, I’ve seen a spate of articles...
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Aug 11, 20151 min read


Coffee Prompt Monday
Drunk house party goes bad. Woman pulls into her driveway at 3 a.m., why? The preacher says, “Speak now.” Every Monday I’ll give you a...
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Aug 10, 20151 min read


Happy International Cats Day!
Hey guys, I’m at Starbucks, picking my brain into confetti trying to get something useful to flake off because I haven’t really written...
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Aug 8, 20151 min read
Life Doesn’t Have Participation Trophies
(Titus clip below. I do not mean to violate copyright, just share something from Youtube that is truly hilarious.)...
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Aug 7, 20154 min read


How to Create Dimensional Characters—Beyond the Wound & Into the Blind Spot
Fantastic Article on Creating Characters. Kristen Lamb's Blog Today, we’re going to explore an extension of the WOUND. The BLIND SPOT....
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Aug 6, 20151 min read


WritersLife Wednesday – Blogging to Build an Author Platform
I ran across a post today on how blogs aren’t as great for building an author platform as they are made out to be. It’s...
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Aug 5, 20153 min read


Eye of the Beholder
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That’s what they always say, right? When it comes to art, there is no such thing as objective....
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Aug 4, 20152 min read


E-Book Pricing – A Survey
As I’ve said on here before (shouted from the rooftops, whatever) I am finally publishing. I’m putting a few of my shorts out on the...
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Aug 3, 20151 min read


Introducing Evie Jones – Book Cover Photoshoot
My bf and I found an awesome model and got some great pics to be on the covers for the Evie Jones short stories. (All pictures in this...
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Aug 3, 20151 min read


Coffee Prompt Monday
1. Bombs placed in the strangest places 2. Frosting the book went well 3. Dancing with the snake Every Monday I’ll give you a wacky...
amiegibbons15
Aug 3, 20151 min read


Trying to Break Up the Writer’s Block? Try a Round Robin.
Over on the Nanowrimo website we’ve started a Round Robin. That’s when someone starts the story and sets the main characters and main...
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Aug 1, 20152 min read


Pro-Motion
Books by some friends of mine over at The Mad Genius Club 🙂 Mad Genius Club Yeah, I know, promotion has no hyphen in it. It’s early, I’m...
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Jul 31, 20151 min read


Flashback Friday – Why We Pound on the Publishing Door
This is a re-post of one of my best (in my humble opinion) posts on writing so far. It was a guest post on one of my favorite writing...
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Jul 31, 20155 min read
A Laugh for Your Night
Hey guys, I’m trying to write even though I have no hope of meeting my Camp Nano goal because I’ve had a long week with a lot of stuff...
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Jul 30, 20151 min read


Why Give Indie a Try
But, but, but, I want a gatekeeper to confirm I’m good enough! Oh wait… that doesn’t mean what we think it means, does it 😀 I’m going...
amiegibbons15
Jul 29, 20151 min read


It’s My Birthday!
It’s my birthday!!! I love my birthday, it’s the day everything is about me. I think I feel this way because technically it’s not just...
amiegibbons15
Jul 29, 20152 min read


#TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter
This is trending on Twitter right now and some of them are hilarious. I picked my top ten from the ones so far. People are still adding...
amiegibbons15
Jul 28, 20151 min read
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