I didn’t win NaNoWriMo (when people write a novel in a month) this year. For anyone who knows me well, you know that November is a special month for me. I look forward to NaNo. The comradery, the creativity, the sheer insanity! But this year, I was given the surprise gift of COVID just before…
In Part 1, we covered why you want a newsletter and some of the key basics of the technology that you need to have in place to collect email addresses and send emails that will reach your readers’ inboxes. For this part, I want to dive deeper into finding your audience and connecting with them so…
There’s a hole in the bucket. When I work with writers on their marketing, everyone has a firm opinion about newsletters. Many authors come to me aggressively denying their need for a newsletter. “You can’t make me do one!” Others say they know they need one, but they don’t know how to start. I’ve watched…
I created this fun, non-scientific, and possibly wildly inaccurate quiz to help us think about organization. Enjoy! This quiz is part of my new Digital Organization class for Authors:
A few years back, I found an online streaming group called the Streampunks. Much like the folks at Critical Role, these are a group of friends broadcasting their role-playing games live in real time (also available via replay on YouTube). This form of collaborative storytelling fascinated me immediately. Imagine writing in front of a crowd and keeping the…
Are you feeling any tech stress? I know that I am. Hang with me for a moment, and I promise there is a happy ending to this post. Some things I’ve heard authors say recently: Change is the only constant, it seems. But the problem is: change isn’t a constant. Change is an exponential function!…
