🪺 Most believe that this world would not exist without an earthly or heavenly father--and I agree wholeheartedly. 🪺 If science and procreation are unflawed, motherhood and children are unattainable without the spermatozoans of fathers. 🪺 Fathers add value to our universe and proliferation of humanity whether as donors, freeloaders or forevers—forevers being fathers who value family and fatherhood and fulfill their basic responsibilities to their children. 🪺 Copious odes t

🧢 Blessings and endless odes to every father who wears his mantle and provides, protects and champions family values. 🧢 Fathers add value to our universe and proliferation of humanity whether as donors, freeloaders or forevers—forevers being fathers who value family and fatherhood and fulfill their basic responsibilities to their children. More stories about fatherhood should be published and can be with expert coaching. The world is eager to hear your dad's unique story.

🛍️ Most authors understand that Marketing is a component of Publishing and is crucial for substantial book sales. Memorial Day ( T hanks to our VETERANS for their selfless service ) and other holidays are awesome to promote and boost sales and profit.   🛍️ Be strategic with these areas of Marketing whether you are an Indie-Author or a Traditional Author. 1. Promotion of Author (Authors need to promote themselves). 2. Expanded book distribution (Know your options for loca

🌻 Happy Mother’s Day to all virtuous mothers wherever you are. Enjoy your special day. 🌻 Mother’s Day creates phenomenal stories that inspire based on positive or negative experiences and written from the perspective of child to mother ,   child about mother , child to siblings about a mother, mother to child/children, husband/father to wife/mother or universal . 🌻 Here is my 10-minute universal story celebrating Mother’s Day. See how quick, simplistic and easy it is to

🖨️ Literary and industry conferences usually offer great value and both Traditional and Indie-Authors should attend when possible.  Check literary organizations, your business industry, colleges and universities for lists of conferences you could attend. 📚 Some advantages of attending National and International Literary and Industry Conferences are to: * Network and gain exposure and access to national and international publishers and industry experts. * Meet established

🌸 Write unrestrictedly and copiously. It is okay to be vulnerable and imperfect on first drafts. 🌸 The objective is to write as tweaks and edits will follow to prune and polish your writing. 🌸 Here is a quick and simple piece I wrote in 5 minutes after a view of the spring image below. Tweaks will follow. 🌸The photo below evokes enumerable thoughts and realities. I captured spring blessing us with April buds. Made me realize that we step on, and trample countless new bu

🖋️ If you have a dream to write, you are a dreamer like most and should write. Embrace your literary dream to write by writing and defy the distractions thrown to inhibit and circumvent your writing journey.   🖋️ Grab your pen and create a realistic plan to bring your dream of writing into fruition.   🖋️ Tweak your schedule and plan as needed to write weekly and complete set projects to become a writing sensation.   🖋️ Know and improve your writing stamina and dexterity

🫠 Self-Publishing means you do the work. But you are not alone with a supportive coach. Work and communicate hiccups with your mentoring coach.   🫠 A trusted and effective coach mentors and helps you realize your vision as you execute and complete the work. An excellent coach guides and helps writers decrease stress from becoming overwhelmed by the insecurities of authoring a book.   🫠 Pace yourself and do not succumb to burnout and delay completion of publishing your boo

👏 The end of the first quarter is weeks away and you are living life, conducting business and interacting with family, friends and society. 👏 You are a business, an educator and are being intentionally and intrinsically educated as a student of life and circumstance. You have amassed stories via scattered notes, emails, journal entries, presentations, etc. You are laughing and crying as life decrees and being resilient.   📂Now is the ideal time for a “data dump” where you

👍 Congrats! You're close to the finishing line. Shun skeptics and notions of doubt. 🔍 Edit and proof your manuscript carefully before finalizing it for typesetting and publishing. 🔎 🔍 Carefully review your editor’s edits since you are the creator and expert of your work and should accept or reject edits based on applicability, context, flow, etc., of your work.   🔎   👍 Follow these simple steps below to complete final edits and proofing if you use a Master File and do n

😊 What's gushing from your pen? 😊 No need to have dry, disengaged pens when you could follow a realistic timeline and write your first, third or next masterpiece. 💡We write daily via text and email messages. Some of us blog or fill journals and diaries. 😊 A good tip is to begin a data dump on a topic you are curious about or an expert at. Could be something humorous, literary, academic or instructional from your specific field. 🏷️ Consider notes, emails, journal or dia

🗂️ Indie-Authors should not neglect the administrative aspect of book publishing. 🔖Or ganize receipts and transactions and keep all handy for tax filing when Uncle Sam visits or for future reference. 🔖 Best to use a CPA unless you are skilled at tax filing and checking all the crucial expense boxes. 🔖 Audit your business monthly regardless of high or low book sales.   🗂️ Monthly audits allow you to strategize and implement needed actions. 🔖 Avoid shortcuts and the “lit

⏳ 2023 will end in days. A Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to you when it arrives! Hope you made strides with publishing projects and will aspire to publish amazing books during 2024. a.       Maintain or build momentum for 2024. b.       Create a new project schedule and include realistic sales and promotion projections you can accomplish. c.       Pencil new project ideas. d.       Recap the pros and cons of projects and collaborations and all business dealings durin

🍒 December glided in with a plethora of enchantments to write about including business wheels and deals, trendy sales, festivities, gaudy decors, travel, family and friends, gifts, enticing cuisines, and the list is endless. 📯 🍒 My joy is my 2 ft Christmas tree that gets unboxed and assembled the day after Thanksgiving so I can enjoy the lights until New Year’s Day. My gifts are wrapped boxes, stored and reused yearly to save time and maximize my glee at seeing my prized

🍂🥧 Thanksgiving means another year is ending. 🍂🥧 ✍️ Begin writing if you have not or stay on target and do not stress about writing. ✍️ If you are writing, simply manage your timeline and press forward and upward into fruition. ✍️If you have not begun writing, take advantage of Thanksgiving to write in your preferred genre: memoir, fiction, poetry, essay, business,  instructional, etc. ✍️Write about food, festivity, family and friends, gatherings, or inspiration, and the

🥧 Thanksgiving gives opportunities to promote your books and here are a few tips. 🔖Share a fun one-liner for quick holiday promotion that would interest and not burden listeners when you gather at events. 🔖Give away free copies of your book/s or discount coupons. ☺️ Word-of-mouth works for authors and the holidays offer superb opportunities to carry stashes of business cards and promotional materials to give to family and friends as you meet, greet and eat. 🔖Or simply l

✍️ Did you know that most innate writers are happiest when writing and salivate about writing? To them, writing challenges (new projects, a piece that seems eternal, revisions, a new genre, etc.) are opportunities to romance their work and produce remarkable art that transforms them and readers. ✍️ Hence, most innate writers pounce on writing projects with alacrity. And yes, all genres of writing require thorough research to establish credibility in academic, poetry, memoirs

👍 Authors should consider submitting to Small Presses that are Traditional Publishers and operate similarly to conglomerates like Hachette, Penguin/Randon House, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Oxford and other national houses. 👍 Most Small Presses accept authors based on talent and quality of work and all publishing and most promotional expenses are covered by Small Presses. These presses never ask authors to pay. Vanity Presses do and often produce poor quality books. 👍 Au

🔔 Labor Day 2023 (LD) has slipped away with the month of September, but I’m clinging to “better late than never” with this post. 🔔 Labor Day is celebrated in the US and Canada on the first Monday of September flooding annals with workers, cultural awareness and industry issues if not unifying anything. 🔔 Did you know that the US Labor Day originated in the late nineteenth century and marks the end of summer pastels and white apparels: spawning gaudy parades that ignite

🤖 Many are wondering how Artificial Intelligence will affect publishing and will robots replace humans and design and publish books after much trial and error? 🤖 I’m not an IT expert nor tech savvy and must rely on industry facts and updates for AI answers. Read this article from Publishers Weekly and share your thoughts if you currently use or will utilize Artificial Intelligence. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/92471-ai-i