Hybrid Authors: Meet Shirley Jump

I have known Shirley online for YEARS. We belong to an online group called Momwriters and were there as both of our careers took off. Like me, Shirley started as a nonfiction writer, but always longed to write fiction. She has now written more books than I can count...

Giddiness, Excitment and New Adventures!

  So I thought after the wedding and the kitchen remodel, (which isn’t exactly DONE, but done enough, if you know what I mean), that my life would calm down and things would go back to “normal”. Except of course, I don’t know what normal is anymore and either my...

Author as Everything

I have more hats than shoes. Now I’m not a shoe person. My daughter has stacks of kicks in her closet and I know people who pay for extra luggage on the plane just for their shoes. That’s not me. Even so, I have collected a lot of shoes over the years, but for the...

Why I Haven’t Gone Indie…Yet

The publishing world has always seemed a little strange to me and it’s become stranger since the whole e-book revolution. The lines are being blurred and redrawn, and new people, partnerships and companies are not only rising to the surface, they’re taking off and...

Marketing Madness

Holy, moly, mother of god, does public relations, marketing and platform building stress me out. I feel like I should know all this stuff already and I don’t. People say comforting things like, “A writer’s job is to write. Only do as much marketing work as you are...

Time Management 283

Why 283? Because I have a feeling I have tried 283 times to become more efficient. At least. Even before the electronic revolution, I would attempt to manage my time with my annual new year’s trip to the office supply store, which for me is almost a Julia Child...