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Novel Lessons Regardless of Crisis

“The virus” has disrupted our lives in many ways, but it has also provided fresh opportunities for creativity and service to others. Take Eliana, for example. With her pre-kindergarten class on hold, she is still very near the beginning of her literacy journey. But she loves cooking, and she loves helping Grandma. Hence, some gorgeous

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Reviews Can Spice Up Your Writing

Why not try writing a review? Writing for an alternative audience is a helpful motivator. If you’ve never written a review before, why not try it? It flexes your writing muscles in new ways and may even bring about an opening, a new readership to you.  There are plenty of opportunities to review for an

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New Authors Community.

I’m Tom Blubaugh, CEO of Common Senses Marketing Strategies, LLC. Welcome to my world of blogging, consulting, information sharing, marketing, and writing. Speaking of writing–how is your writing coming along? I’d love to hear about your journey. You have connected with me for a reason. I am assuming it is because you reviewed my profile ...

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” Part I

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” This is a partial quote from Charles Dickens a Tale of two Cities and sounds a lot like the world of authors today. On the one hand we have access to nearly the whole world through the Internet — on the ...

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Do You Struggle to Find Time for Writing?

So many authors and writers share their struggle to find time for writing.  This creative need drops by the wayside as they care for family, deal with health issues, and work full or part-time. I totally get it!   Barbara, my wife, raised four children as a single parent. There were times she felt she wouldn’t make it through ...

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Why Story Telling is the Essence of Marketing.

Marketing is often the biggest roadblock for authors. Many of them have a story to tell, and they present it in a remarkable way. Yet, when it comes to sharing their story with the world, they balk. This is the reason many authors have a large inventory of books in their attics or a listing ...

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Marketing to People Not Numbers.

Guest blog article by Jennifer Self. I recently attended a play portraying Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. The setting was 16th century England, right before the death of Henry VIII. His son, Edward, succeeded him to the throne but lived for a very short time. After Edward’s death, Henry’s daughter, Mary, took the ...

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Does being a successful author have anything in common with becoming a Neurosurgeon?

YouTube is a HUGE resource for Internet knowledge–not just music, movies, cat videos, etc.. It’s an international university. If you want to know the purpose of a social media platform, you must study it. Not like you would study if you were working toward becoming a Neurosurgeon, but enough to understand what its purpose is and ...

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WHAT FUELS YOUR FIRE? ONE ANSWER: KINDLING!

By Whitney McKendree Moore This happens to me constantly! Working with Tom Blubaugh, Literary Strategist, opened my mind about marketing, which, until I met Tom, I had considered practically a swear word. It was Tom who first suggested to me that all marketing really means is reaching out to encourage others. And when I heard ...

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Do you have a team to help you succeed?

Writers are enigmas! Passion drives them to pour their heart out on paper. Then they realize that like the monarch in The Emperor’s New Clothes, they are standing in public in their birthday suit.  That’s why it’s imperative to have “good” team support when you embark on this perilous task. The Emperor had a team, ...

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