Hello Author Friends, Just a couple lines to share some news and invite you to sign up for a free author consult (if you haven't already). One Hour Calls with Publishing Pros Visit the Conspire Creative website to see the directory of 50 publishing specialties spread out among 8 different publishing pros and book a one-hour call that can propel your book project or author business forward. Here are just some: Adapting your work for screens Advertising on Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram Amazon...
25 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Author Friends, Just a couple lines to share some news and invite you to sign up for a free author consult (if you haven't already). One Hour Calls with Publishing Pros Visit the Conspire Creative website to see the directory of 50 publishing specialties spread out among 8 different publishing pros and book a one-hour call that can propel your book project or author business forward. Here are just some: Adapting your work for screens Advertising on Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram Amazon...
27 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Author Friends, Just a couple lines to share some news and invite you to sign up for a free author consult (if you haven't already). Half-Priced Book! June 5-June 11 From today, June 5, through the end of the day, Wednesday, June 11, the Kindle version of my new book, The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books, is half off on Amazon (only $4.99). Audiobook If you prefer listening to books, there's also an audio version of The Profitable Author read...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello Author Friends, Have you taken The Quiz? While publishing, coaching, and observing hundreds of authors in my career as an indie book publisher and publishing consultant, I noticed seven pillars on which successful authors create a foundation for ongoing, moneymaking author lives they love. Find out the number one thing that could be holding you back from sharing their successes. This quiz is based on the most frequent statements I heard from clients and authors at book events over a...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Author Friends, Just a few announcements... Casa Italia Literati 2025 Join us at IA Literati 2025, Casa Italia's annual Italian-American Authors Seminar and Showcase, with keynote speaker Dr. Christina Marrocco. I'll be making a short presentation and selling copies of The Profitable Author afterwards. Casa Italia, 1621 N 39th Ave, Stone Park (near Western suburb of Chicago) Saturday, May 17, 9:30am-1:30pm See program here. This is a free event and a free light lunch is served. Please RSVP...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Do 5 Things a Day. Dear Authors, It's the grinding of authorship. It's doing the reps. Photo by John Arano on Unsplash. Grinding in video games is an act of endurance and discipline—repeatedly performing boring, repetitive tasks to gain in-game rewards like experience points, currency, or stats upgrades. Grinding is the doing the reps of working out. Commitment. Discipline. Repetitive. Boring. And somewhere, sometime, eventually…seeing, enjoying, and then, maintaining, the results. Doing 5...
3 months ago • 1 min read
A Magnificence Checklist. "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."—Leo Tolstoy It’s true. I do live magnificently for loving books, loving work, and working for the authors who make that possible. So, merci beaucoup. But living magnificently, for me, has also come from taking on the challenges and long-game journey of entrepreneurship. It’s ongoing self-development and real-world engagement,...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Cue the chuckle, the moan and groan, the despair. But wait! Hello author friends, Since my book with the Profitable Author title came out a month ago, more than one person has suggested to me that profitable author is an oxymoron. Har. Har. Yes, that’s hilarious. Let me have a quick chuckle then get back to moaning, groaning, and despairing with you… It’s so oxymoronic I wrote a 500-page book on the topic just to twist the knife in further. Haha. Just kidding. I’m used to the skepticism and...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Easy. Breezy. Boost Your Author Income. Dear Author Friends, Author and Write Now! Coach Rochelle Melander recently interviewed me for her blog and newsletter and asked me some terrific questions, which I think elicited some of my best, simple advice. Read "Boost Your Author Income" here...then take some inspired action today. Here's what Rochelle is up to... Writing to Reform, Rebel, and Revolutionize: Blog Your Book to Help People Thrive Today, people are blogging to bear witness, protest...
4 months ago • 1 min read