I recently wrote about reverse mortgages for Living on the Cheap for one reason: I was curious! How else do writers get ideas? The problem of being house rich and cash poor can hit at any age, but it is especially painful for someone who is retired. A reverse mortgage is a fancy name for… [Read More]
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This counts as a blog post, yes? Of course, yes. It’s summer in Chicago!
Lessons learned in eight years of marketing books
Hedge Funds for Dummies came out in 2006, so I’ve been selling books for eight years already. Yikes! I just completed the 30 Day Book Marketing Challenge, and the last assignment is to write a post about book marketing and the challenge for a participant blog hop. Here’s my advice to authors, general comments about… [Read More]
This is not a blogathon bucket list
A standard prompt for blogathons is to write up a bucket list. Well, I don’t really have one, and here’s why: I love to travel, and I love to read, and I love to learn new things. As long as I’m doing those things, I don’t need to make a list and check it twice.
How Americans Save
The folks at America Saves Week recently released their Survey of American Savers, which they took in March of 2014. They were looking at the non-retirement savings habits of those who had signed the America Saves pledge. The survey asked where people put their money. Large numbers of people reported saving their money in traditional… [Read More]
