Archives for 2016

A Gift That Came Early

The holiday season is all about gifts. Whether you get gifts under the Christmas tree, or during the eight nights of Hanukkah, or the seven days of Kwanzaa, or celebrate the gift of light at the solstice, most of the holidays happening in December include gifts. This year I received a wondrous gift a little […]

‘Twas The Evening of Christmas

Setting – Christmas evening, inside Betsy’s brain Our Cast of Characters –  Betsy – your humble author Skipper – a chipmunk and Habit Implementation Specialist sent by the Muse Council to help Betsy develop good habits. Coffee – the beverage of champions.  He is always with Betsy in one form or another. Muse – She […]

Getting New Covers (and New Cover Reveals!)

One of the first things you hear when you start going the independent author route is that you need to get professional covers for your books.  You hear things like:  “Don’t try to do it yourself!” and “A bad cover can kill a book!” So, of course, I tried to do my book covers myself. […]

It’s Good To Have Goals

As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, I’ve become quite introspective here at the end of the year regarding my author business.  Or lack thereof. This introspection has led me to think about my reasons for doing this writing thing (again) and to identify a primary objective for what I want to achieve with […]

Finding an Objective

Hello, dear readers, and welcome to December. Soon it’s going to be 2017!  Yeesh. I always get somewhat introspective at the end of the year, thinking about where I’ve been and where I’m going.  Because of who I am, I also beat myself up for not making as much progress as I think I should […]

Focus

Too many distractions can make you forget what’s important.  At least, they can make you forget what’s really important to you, to the reality of your situation and your life in all its many aspects. Life goes on despite massive change and uncertainty.  We work and play and love and laugh and pay bills and […]