by Annette Elton | Feb 4, 2017 | Romance Story Starters, Romance Writing, Romance Writing Career
An author blog is an effective tool for building a community and an audience of readers. You can also use your blog to promote and sell your books. And a blog interacts nicely with your social media posts and promotions. For example, you might announce a contest on...
by Annette Elton | Jan 28, 2017 | Romance Story Starters, Romance Writing Career
Have you noticed that some author websites have a ton of interaction, while others are little more than book advertising pages? Building an online community may be the key to increasing your audience and ultimately increasing your book sales. Depending on your romance...
by Annette Elton | Jan 5, 2017 | Romance Story Starters, Romance Writing, Romance Writing Affirmation, Romance Writing Career, The Creative Process
As we make our way into 2017 and think about the year behind us and what we want for the future, I’m hearing a lot of people focusing on kindness, positivity, and action. There seems to be, as there often is this time of year, a lot of personal reflection. Reflection...
by Annette | Sep 2, 2016 | Romance Writing, Romance Writing Career
Most of us don’t think of failures as opportunities – but successful authors know the secret to turning the knowledge learned in a failure into opportunities for growth and success. We hate the way failure makes us feel, but when we realize it’s not the end of the...
by Annette | Aug 2, 2016 | Romance Writing Career
Criticism is sometimes difficult to manage. Constructive criticism, however well delivered, can hurt as much as the intentionally cruel criticism, but if you view both types the right way, it can be very helpful to you as a romance writer. After all, you’re going to...
by Annette | Aug 2, 2016 | Romance Writing Career
Criticism is sometimes difficult to manage. Constructive criticism, however well delivered, can hurt as much as the intentionally cruel criticism, but if you view both types the right way, it can be very helpful to you as a romance writer. After all, you’re going to...