Is This Thing On???

I was planning on releasing Meant To Be in August. Somehow, I got moving on it and it came out in May. Way before I had originally planned. Since then, things have been going very well. The readers have put the book in the Top 100 of Amazon Family Saga since about the third day it’s been out. I am so grateful and astonished that so many people have fallen in love with Heaven Hill Series. I know I love it, but you never know how others will react and I’m humbled by the outpouring of support I’ve received for it. Humbled and extremely excited!! On...

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Make the day count....

Things are moving along in the plan that I have for this year. My goal is to publish the first novel of the Heaven Hill series Meant to Be in August. I don’t want to give an exact date. I’ve read the horror stories of other self-pub authors who gave a date and then it uploaded late to Amazon or B&N or Smashwords. So for right now, I’m just planning on it being August. I emailed a cover artist and am pretty sure that I’ll be working with her in the near future. I emailed a couple and she seemed to be the only one that got what I was going...

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My Business Plan

This is rough, pretty rough actually. The thing is, you can never predict how others are going to interpret your work and if they are willing to pay their hard earned dollars to buy something that you created. I'm counting that some people will...so this is what I've made for myself. It's very simple, but my wants and needs are also very simple. 2013 1. February and March  Re-write and revise ‘Meant to Be’  2. April  Start the professional revision process 3. May & June  Begin the cover art process  Format...

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Motivation!

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Writing is so Easy...

Writing is so Easy….. Whoever says that is lying…. When I first started my journey, I did think it would be easy.  I’m not gonna lie.  I thought it would be just as simple as writing my books and then they would find their way to wherever it was they needed to go.  I’ve learned in the last year that I was so, so, so wrong. Like I said in an earlier post, I’ve signed up for a self-publishing class and read some editing articles that were in a previous class a friend of mine took.  They’ve changed my life as far as being...

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Checking In....

Checking In I started off the year making a list of goals that I wanted to accomplish with my writing. My main goal was to make something happen. After the past year, I know that things don’t just happen out of the blue for anyone. You have to actively work at it and that’s what I’m doing – actively working to make my dreams come true. It’s different now because I now know what doesn’t work. I’m ready to try other things that might possibly work. So far, in the first 7 days of 2013 I’ve done enough to feel accomplished.... 1. I got...

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2013 Goals

2013 Goals At the beginning of 2012 I had one goal as far as writing went – to just do it. To get words down on paper and to construct the world that would eventually become Heaven Hill. I had so many ideas that I just had to get out of my head. I wrote with no abandon and eventually had 3 full novels. It felt good to finally accomplish something that I set out to do. I’ve always been that person who talks about doing things, but never does them.  Last year that changed. In more ways than one. So 2013… 1.    I...

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