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Goal Setting & Rule Breaking

Goal Setting & Rule Breaking

by Joy | Jan 17, 2023 | authors, creativity, doubt and fear, goals, Indie Authors, inspiration, journal, journaling, Publishing, writer mom, writing process

This blog post comes with a warning label. The process you’re about to read is not for beginners because I broke all the first-of-the-year rules. For Goal Setting 101, head to a post I wrote in 2018, “Resolving to Make Better Goals.” Now that we have that...
Creative Health Focus

Creative Health Focus

by Joy | Jan 10, 2023 | authors, doubt and fear, dream of authorship, goals, Indie Authors, inspiration, Publishing, writer mom, writers, writing

On Christmas Day, I shared two photos with my family. Both were of me on the same day, in the same outfit. The differences were one year and nearly thirty pounds. Seeing the change side by side impacted me. I was angry to see how I had been, but stunned, proud,...
Day in the Life of an Indie Author: What Does a Launch Day Look Like?

Day in the Life of an Indie Author: What Does a Launch Day Look Like?

by Joy | Feb 27, 2020 | authors, dream of authorship, Indie Authors, Publishing

When I was a little girl and first dreamed of being an author, I pictured riding to a fancy rooftop restaurant in a limo, stepping onto a red carpet in fancy heels and greeting excited readers at my book’s Launch Party.  Yes, I realize how ridiculous that sounds. I...
Indie Authors and the Case of Events

Indie Authors and the Case of Events

by Joy | Nov 7, 2019 | authors, dream of authorship, Indie Authors, Publishing, readers

For Indie Authors, any opportunity to sell our books is cause for excitement. That is, after all, why we went through the grueling process to publish them. How else are they going to get to readers?  The thing is, though, events are tricky and they won’t always—or...
Interview with a Debut Fantasy Author

Interview with a Debut Fantasy Author

by Joy | Oct 16, 2019 | authors, books, fantasy, fiction, Indie Authors, literature, Publishing

We have a special guest today. Please help me welcome one of my dear writer friends, E.E. Rawls, author of Strayborn, a just-out-this-week fantasy meets steampunk tale with characters who face the terrors of coming of age while also learning to use powers of elemental...
Indie Authors and the Case of Fifty Hats

Indie Authors and the Case of Fifty Hats

by Joy | Oct 3, 2019 | authors, Indie Authors, Publishing, writing process

Working as an Indie Author is a little like attempting to switch hats during a storm with hurricane-force winds while still holding on to the other forty-eight hats in your collection.  Yeah.  As in a prized hat collection, each of our metaphorical ones has a place...
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