Writer/author, designer and life & business coach

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    Seven Tips To Write A Book That Sells

    It seems everyone wants to write a book or their next book. Me included.Wanting to write a book is just the first piece of the publishing puzzle. It’s one thing to write it and it’s an entirely different thing to write an ebook or book that sells well and is wanted by consumers. Guaranteeing the success of any book is something even the biggest publishers haven’t been able to do. Many things can affect the way a buyer prefers to purchase at any given time. Everything from trends to world events have an effect.

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    Simple Changes in Dealing With Stress Means Big Relief

    Go ahead and share this post! Simple Changes in Dealing With Stress Means Big Relief Author: Carol Owens Haven’t posted in for a while. As you can probably guess by the blog title, I’ve been dealing with a bit of excess stress these past few weeks. Don’t want to bore you with details. Let’s just say being a caregiver to a demanding person can get overwhelming. Dealing with stress can be a problem if you let it . Or it can be simple. Being a stay at home mom, a work from home parent or even a caregiver can make you feel like stress is taking over. Learning a few simple techniques you can use when you feel stress is too overwhelming can help defuse the…

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    The Liebster Award Blog Entry

    I was recently nominated for the Liebster Award Blog by Kathy Robinson . A big thanks goes out to her. I have decided to accept the challenge and will pass it on to others. Origins of the Liebster Blog Award (at least as much information as I could gather on it): According to the research found on  Google and Bing, the Liebster Blog Award is an award given to smaller, up and coming bloggers by other bloggers who admire you and/or your blog. From what I can tell, it originated in Germany as an award that fellow bloggers feel you deserve recognition for your hard blogging work.  Although the original numbers are different, the nominee was to have less than 300 followers. I don’t know if…

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    The Top 5 Self-Publishing Blogs and Freelance Writers I Follow

    Self-publishing and kindle publishing is a very hot topic.Like many others it is something I am very interested in doing.  But, dang, there is a lot of information that needs to be learned to get to a published book. One way to learn about the self-publishing industry to follow those who are already doing it. Another way to become successful in the published book world is to write well. Reading authors and writers work can help you You gain insights on what sentence structure is, the voice of the writer and how the words all come together to create a super published piece.

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    Pinterest: The Ultimate Marketing Tool

    Are you using Pinterest in your marketing? I discovered Pinterest first as a way to keep photos for home improvement and crafting ideas I wanted to try. I could save photos of ideas and patterns found online. Now with Pinterest for Business accounts,  Pinterest  is a great marketing tool for your creative business too, though. Did you know you can share images of your products with links back to your sales page? You can use it for informal market research. Simply post images of your in development products to get  a feel for the response. You can find out how

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    Inside Writer’s Block

    Standing tall in the middle of an unnamed city looms a tower block full of writers. To look at it from the outside, it looks like any ordinary urban living space, but inside and on every floor, somebody is writing something. That’s why it is called Writers’ Block or Bloggers’ Block. So let’s open the doors, step into the lift and be prepared to visit every writer or blogger imaginable from copywriters and comic strip writers to novelists and playwrights and see what masterpieces they are at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of writing. A is for Advertising Our first stop is to visit our advertising copywriter. He, as you would probably imagine, has a stack of cereal boxes, tins of soft…

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    You Have To Find Balance in Your Life To Grow

    You Have To Find Balance in Your Life To Grow Finding your own personal balance in life is important if you’re starting a business,  raising kids and dealing with every day stuff.  If you don’t find this balance your life can feel out of control and overwhelming. I know in my daily life, I am often overwhelmed with the needs of everyone around me. Between caring for my aging mother, caring for my granddaughter and  being there for my hubby, it sometimes seems I don’t have a free moment to just take a breath. That’s when I have to say, wait a minute and take a step away from everything. You need to be clear about what it is that you need for yourself and to…

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    Use One of These Six Business Name Styles In Choosing a Name

    Use One of These Six Business Name Styles In Choosing a Name As you begin your online creative business, you want your business name to resonate with your target audience. You want something catchy and memorable that helps establish your brand. It can be stressful trying to come up with the perfect business name for some of us. It’s something I struggle with for my ghostwriting business. So instead of narrowing it down I simply use my own name 😉 But since my goal is to make my name synonymous with my (future) published books, the name works.   There are lots of ways of naming your business.

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    From Niche To Business

    How do you find a special niche that will set you apart? It seems everyone is writing a book in their niche so how do you find a niche that fits you and what you want to right? There are many ways to do this. In this post, my special guest author digs deeper into this. In an ever expanding, technologically available world it seems like just about everybody has their own niche. Whether it is hosting their own blog about their latest drunk cooking adventures or categorising the many different wild things their pet has been doing, everyone has something. Beyond that, everyone has something to sell which accompanies their brand. But how do you find that special something that sets you apart?