Skill Building

Good God!   If you’re going to write time travel do your research! I downloaded a Kindle time travel novel last night and 30 minutes into it I was so disgusted with the jarring lack of accuracy that I deleted it from my iPad. No matter that the story had a fascinating premise or that the [...]

Want to be a freelance writer? Then find a few ways to shield yourself from rejection letters, critical readers, or just plain being ignored. When I first started freelancing I sent out dozens of  gawdawful queries; no surprise that I collected enough rejection letters to paper at least part of a room.  (This was back [...]

Darren Rowse of Problogger fame today released his new e-book, Problogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging. Darren says this book is like his 31 Days to a Better Blog (click to read a review) except it concentrates only on the first seven days of starting a new blog.  The new e-book is broken [...]

I received an e-mail from Darren Rowse (of Problogger fame) letting me know the cost for his 31 Days to a Better Blog Workbook was going up in price on May 10. I purchased the workbook when it was first released and it’s excellent.  I wrote a review of 31 Days to a Better Blog [...]

Two years ago I took Rob Schultz’ Article Challenge. If you use articles to promote your books, your services, or your products, Rob’s course is THE article course of choice (at least MY choice!).  To this day I still use Rob’s materials as a reference when I want to write articles with a different format [...]