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]
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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.
Another blogger fights a SLAAP suit and wins
In 2013, I dealt with both a lawsuit and an IRS audit. Neither was as bad as you might think, because the facts were on my side with both. And yet, there are plenty of people out there who think that they can bully bloggers just by threatening to sue. Just as convicted felon Keith… [Read More]
The 2014 Blogathon is underway!
The 2014 Freelance Success/WordCount Blogathon is officially underway. Participants have committed to posting once a day for the month of June. My goals are to keep up the blogging habit and to come up with articles that people want to read. Will all 30 be things you want to read? Hard to say. But I… [Read More]
It’s Hard to Get Out There and Suck
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential,… [Read More]
