by Annette | Nov 22, 2014 | Romance Writing, Romance Writing Career, The Creative Process
It occurred to me that I should probably head to the local Barnes and Noble to actually see my book on the store shelves. It’s been there for almost a month and I hadn’t taken the time to enjoy the moment. So last night, we did. After a lovely date with my...
by Annette | Sep 14, 2014 | Romance Writing Career
Today, while perusing Facebook, I noticed a writer apologizing for her absence on her blog. It made me laugh. How funny that a writer should be apologizing for not writing. In truth, she was writing and she was writing a lot. In her blogging absence, she was writing a...
by Annette | Sep 13, 2014 | Romance Writing Career, The Creative Process
I have a list of things I need, and want, to do. The list includes things like “Create new course for blog,” “Apply to Nursing School,” “make eBooks ready for print publication,” “Detail the Car,” and so on. It’s a list that is so long, I just kept adding to it and...
by Annette | Aug 25, 2014 | Romance Writing Career, The Creative Process, Tools & Resources
Story ideas come at us when we least expect them to. I should know, I’ve written thousands of story ideas and published them online, in books, and I’ve used a few for my own novels. The challenge generally isn’t to come up with good ideas but to seize them, take...
by Annette | Aug 1, 2014 | Romance Writing, Romance Writing Career
Bear with me for a moment, please. I’m going to get a bit personal here, but I promise there’s a point… I’m grieving. It’s a weird kind of grief. It doesn’t feel free. In fact, I feel ashamed of my grief. My eldest daughter is going away to college. She’ll be a four...
by Annette | Jun 23, 2014 | Romance Writing Career
Over the past few weeks we’ve talked a bit about the tools you can use to build your platform. Remember that your platform is essentially your community. They’re the people who will buy your book. They’ll buy it because they like you, because they’re interested in...
