Whew! It's been a while, but I needed the rest. Basically, I've been recovering from surgery on my left arm for the past few weeks, and will continue recovering until mid-July. I can't sit at a desk for very long. I'm limiting myself to about a half hour a day as of today. This means I can spend a half hour writing blog posts, tweets, and getting about ten minutes of writing done a day. It's been a rough couple of months, but there have been some highlights. Like i went to an

Hello again! Like I said before, the point of this series is to give others some tips on how I became a self-published author. Because I'm disorganized, I'm just picking topics at random. So, this week I'm going to talk about the pros of scheduling posts out. When I first started this whole social media and marketing crusade, I knew very little. I just knew I needed to get myself out there. So, I made a Twitter, a professional Facebook, re-vamped my Instagram, and made this w

Self-publishing is hard work. After spending a year sending queries to traditional agents and publishers, I decided to take the road more difficult. I did a LOT of research. Every day was spent in various Facebook groups (I highly recommend the 20booksto50k group), reading self-help books, and listening to podcasts (I liked the Author Biz). My goal is to share my process with you, one little tidbit at a time. You can learn from all my mistakes, if anything! Today I want to fo