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Nina Amir’s “Authorpreneur: How to Build a Business Around Your Book”

Do you want to jump start yourwriting resolutions for 2015? Nina Amir, author of How to Blog a Book, has a new ebook to help you do that!Authorpreneurhelps fiction and nonfiction writers earn a living from writing by thinking beyond their book.

Being an independent author is about more than writing books.In the modern publishing climate, whether you’re working with a publisher or self-publishing, you take on a responsibility for building your audience, marketing your books, and propellin...

10 Benefits to Being in a Long Distance Relationship

Guest post by Jennifer Craig of surviveldr.com

Being in a long distance relationship doesn’t have to be frustrating. Stop focusing on the empty glass, and look at the part that’s full.

There are some interesting things that can only happen when you are in a long distance relationship. Ask your friends who are enjoying love with someone far away, and they can attest tosome of these benefits:

1. There Isn’t Any Challenge Your Relationship Can’t Face

If you can handle a long-distance relationship,yo...

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Your Manifesto

For more guidance todefine your audience, clarify your message, and outline your next ebook, join us for this month’s weekend workshop: Write Your Manifesto, February 28-March 1. Learn more >>

This post was originally published at Helping Writers Become Authors.

Are you ready to dive into the self-publishing game, but not ready to get a novel out there? Writing a manifesto could be the perfect first step to whet your publishing appetite and learn the ins and outs of the tools and skills you’ll n...

How to Be a Lesbian (featured at Huffington Post)

featured at Huffington Post this month:

I’ve been learning how to be a lesbian lately, because my boyfriend and I opened our relationship last year.

“Open relationship,” for us, means we’re still committed to each other but also date other people. So I get to be a lesbian sometimes, and he gets to be, um, the same. But with more sex.

Ten productive months into being a sometimes-lesbian, I still have a lot of questions. So I reached out to Natashia Mower, this lesbian I know personally, to set me...

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Can You Be a Successful Entrepreneur Without Picking a Path? (Featured at HuffPost)

featured at Huffington Post this month:

Do you find yourself struggling to find that one thing you’re “meant” to do? Do you want to “follow your passion” to build a career you love, but can’t seem to settle anywhere? Do you find yourself quitting even the jobs you thought you loved, ready to move on to the next thing?

You might not be as lost or frivolous as you feel.

You might be a multipotentialite.

According to writer/entrepreneur Emilie Wapnick, a multipotentialite, in simple terms, “is someo...

Last Chance! Join Us to Start Your Email Newsletter in 2015

Ready to take your blog and author career to the next level? Join my Weekend Workshopthis month to start an email newsletter in 2015 to grow a thriving community around your Big Idea!

Through writing prompts and action steps in this community workshop, you’ll learn how to plan, write, and promote an effective email newsletter to grow an audience for your blog and other work.

Click here to learn more and register for Starting an Email Newsletter weekend workshop.

I started running Weekend Worksho...

11 Tips for Writing an Effective Email Newsletter

For even more support to start an email newsletterthis year, join my next Weekend Workshop: Starting an Email Newsletterto get step-by-step guidance to plan, write, and promote your newsletter!

Ready to start an email newsletter for your blog?

As you’re planningand throughout the life of your newsletter, keep these tips in mind to develop a correspondence with your readers that will help you meet your bloggingand career goals.

1. Know Your Goals

One of the mistakes I made when I first start...

Why You Should Start an Email Newsletter for Your Blog

For even more support to start an email newsletterthis year, join my next Weekend Workshop: Starting an Email Newsletterto get step-by-step guidance to plan, write, and promote your newsletter!

“Email subscribers are the lifeblood of the online business.” – Copyblogger

Everyone is telling you start a newsletter.

I used to shudder at the idea of signing up for a mailing list. Invite someone to invade my inbox with promotions?! Why would I ever…?

Then I became a blogger. And I met other blogg...

15 Things to Cross off My Bucket List in 2015

I don’t like New Year’s resolutions, so I don’t often make them. I don’t even like goal-setting much, because my desires and needs change so swiftly that to set a goal for anything beyond a few weeks from now usually feels futile.

But something has overcome me on this first day of the first week of the year, and I’m compelled to jot this list of the things I want to cross off my Bucket List in 2015. Worse, I’m compelled to publish it, which most certainly sets me up for anxiety around July Apr...