Sometimes marketing just feels…blah. Another Facebook update. Another updated business card. Another newsletter that you wonder who’s even reading. A great way to spice up your marketing efforts is to go …
Pitch + Premise = Spine
Maybe you first heard of the “story spine” from Stanley Williams’ book, The Moral Premise. But I actually thought of the concept all by my lonesome the winter of 2011 …
Brainstorming Strategy #6: Highlighting Opposites
No writer wants to hear that their characters are “vanilla” or too much alike. We all want our characters to pop so our readers love them as much as we …
Don’t be overwhelmed: A game plan of what to do after a writers’ conference!
Are you home from the ACFW conference? Finally unpacked? I hope you came home filled with encouragement and new ideas on how to make your writing breathtaking. I came home to a clean …
Build Your Tribe, Part Four: Why They Wait
I’m a member of Amazon’s tribe. I literally get hundreds of emails each and every day, and yet, the one I scan looking for is the Daily Free Kindle Books …