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  • business of writing,  the writing life,  thoughts

    Lessons Learned from a Writing Life Part One

    March 24, 2023 / No Comments

    Some readers can be fickle and fame fleeting Your latest novel will be the most popular thing since sliced bread one minute, but the second the next trend hits, most readers will forget you ever existed. Fame is fleeting. Do what you do because you love it. That passion and love will attract loyal readers and super fans who will…

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    Steph
  • business of writing,  Publishing

    Be Prepared to Change Lanes

    March 1, 2023 / No Comments

    This blog post is not going to be popular writing advice, but the truth never is. The big advice in indie land right now seems to be to find a niche genre and then stay in your lane. This means writing one kind of book, nothing else, and never branching out. I think this is the biggest mistake (that most writers…

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    Steph
  • book signings,  book tour,  business of writing

    Fan Convention 2023 Update

    January 1, 2023 / No Comments

    On the matter of fan conventions – I have decided that in-person events like Fan Expo are going to be a hard pass for me in 2023. While it’s incredibly fun to meet readers and spend time with my writing tribe, the fan conventions often include 10-12 hour days of panels, table work, driving to and from Denver every morning…

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    Steph
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    book signings,  book tour,  business of writing,  Publishing,  rants,  the writing life

    Indie Authors: Don’t Get Scammed

    August 10, 2022 / No Comments

    Dear Fellow Indie Authors, I care about you and and we need to have a talk. We need to talk about why the beginners among us are such easy targets for scams and bullshit. As you know, independently publishing your work does come with some legitimate expenses. But it also comes with a bunch of scam artists trying to take…

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    Steph
  • business of writing,  the writing life,  writing orgs

    Writing Organizations

    July 11, 2022 / No Comments

    I haven’t written a post about writing organizations since 2013, and my view of them has changed a bit since then. So, I thought I’d write a new post about how to choose the best writing organizations at each point in your career. Every writing organization has something it does well and focuses on, and it’s important to be in…

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    Steph
  • A Malkuth of Me,  business of writing,  the writing life

    A Writer’s Priority is Writing – Not Managing ALL the Social Media.

    May 13, 2022 / No Comments

    Today, I (and many other writers) received a survey from a marketing mentor asking about TikTok. Apparently, this is the direction advertising and selling books is heading. Mind you, for a young, tech-savvy fifty-year-old, I am perfectly comfortable with video, including platforms like TikTok. Chatting with an audience is easy if I know in advance what I want to say.…

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    Steph
  • A Malkuth of Me,  business of writing,  creativity,  novels,  the writing life

    Books Coming in 2022

    February 4, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Two titles for sure that are coming in 2022, and that you won’t want to miss include Aiming for Trouble and Inherited Djinn. In Inherited Djinn (Urban Fantasy, late March), we follow Bill MacPhegor as he navigates his new life as The Protectorate of the Vessels with his cigarette smoking, bourbon swilling djinn, Paimon, and the dark, brooding shop girl,…

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    Steph
  • business of writing,  creativity,  the writing life

    21 Things You Need to Know About Writing as a Career Before You Quit Your Job. #amwriting

    September 6, 2020 / No Comments

    I know – I know! Geez, Steph, way to piss all over someone’s dreams. But I don’t think people really understand what it actually takes to sell and THRIVE as a self-employed writer, and a lot of that depends on your personality, your productivity skills, your strengths, your motivation, your weaknesses, and whether or not you have someone to support…

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    Steph
  • A Malkuth of Me,  books,  business of writing,  Magick,  the writing life

    Live Intentionally

    December 5, 2019 / No Comments

    Each year in December, I choose a keyword or phrase that will inspire the coming year. At the end of 2018, I realized that I had lost the joy I usually found in my work. Writing had become a difficult chore that I dreaded. With that revelation, I had to stop and re-evaluate, and discover what, exactly, I had lost.…

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    Steph
  • business of writing,  rants,  the writing life

    The Myth of Exposure #AmWriting

    April 17, 2019 / No Comments

    Having been a professional writer for many years, and having worked at my career for over 25 years, the one word I hate to hear more than anything is “exposure”. When I was young and aspiring, and desperate for publication, I heard that word tossed around a lot. “Come do a reading. It will be great exposure!” “Submit to this…

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    Steph
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