It’s the third Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. I’m co-hosting this month. Be sure to check out the posts of my co-hosts, too. Joylene Nowell Butler | Meka James | Diane Burton | Victoria Marie Lees | M Louise Barbour May 3 question – When …
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If The Author’s Life Were a Fairy Tale #IWSG
If you’re looking for my A-Z post for today, check the main blog page. It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. I’m feeling a bit whimsical this month, probably because of all the folklore I’ve immersed myself in for my A-Z posts (I did …
Strategies to Be a Successful Author #IWSG
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. I’m co-hosting this month! Be sure to visit my awesome co-hosts: Jacqui Murray, Pat Garcia, and Gwen Gardner. Optional February 1 question: If you are an Indie author, do you make your own covers or purchase them? …
An Author’s Goals for 2023 #IWSG
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. It’s a new year already. Where did the time go? In 2022, I did the new year thing twice. In January, I wanted to finish my Irascible Immortals series (in all formats and in Afrikaans) and do …
That’s It! An Author’s Year in Review 2022 #IWSG #writerslife
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. I like to look back on the year in November as I don’t blog in December. It’s a good way to measure where I am and how far I’ve come — and if I’ve managed to meet …
Reaching for the Stars as a Reader #amreading #IWSG
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the IWSG. It’s October already and it feels like every other year this time: hot, humid, scattered thunderstorms with terrifying lightning, loads of flowers making the air too sweet with all the aforementioned conditions, and, of course, time to just go and …
Villains in Fiction #IWSG #amreading #amwriting
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. I’ve been reading a lot lately. I’ve been doing various readathons and what stood out to me is how villains are used. It also made me think of a post I wrote over a decade ago about …
Book Reviews: The Or’in of Tane by Yvette Carol & Up on the Roof and Other Stories by @JudyAnnDavis4 & Wielder’s Prize by @ElleCardy & Keepers of Sulbreth by @SusanKelley & Reaching for Normal by @jemifraser & Magic at Midnight by @miladyronel #IWSGBookClub #IWSG #BookReviews
We’ve changed things up with the IWSG Book Club, featuring books from members. The books for May were books from members lower on the IWSG sign-up list. About the Book Aden Weaver lives with his grandparents, and is an eleven-year-old when he discovers his Papa Joe and Nana Jeen are keeping secrets. When his grandparents …
Rewriting. Relearning. Rewarding. #IWSG #writerslife
It’s the first Wednesday of a new month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been rewriting posts from my old blog and publishing them on my website. I had learned so many things about online publishing since I wrote those posts (as far …
Culling the To-Do List and the TBR #IWSG
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. Last year, I read Joanna Penn’s excellent Productivity for Authors where she recommended writing out everything you have to do in a day (including cooking and eating) and then marking the stuff only you can do (like …