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7 Quick Marketing Tips For Authors & Bloggers

Think your marketing could use some revamping? Or that there is something you’re missing in your marketing strategy? Check out these quick tips to get you started on the right path! #1: Send A Weekly Email If you don’t already have a weekly email you send out, you should start crafting one now. A weekly […]

What My Step Parents Taught Me

As children, we all too often take our parents for granted. We assume that, since they’ve always been there, they will always continue to be there in the future. Unfortunately, it usually takes the loss of one parent to show a child just how human they are. Our parents will, eventually, leave us, although we […]

What My Parents Taught Me

As children, we all too often take our parents for granted. We assume that, since they’ve always been there, they will always continue to be there in the future. Unfortunately, it usually takes the loss of one parent to show a child just how human they are. Our parents will, eventually, leave us, although we […]

Authors Need To Look Critically At These 5 Things Before Hitting Publish

As an author, it can be incredibly hard to judge your own works. I mean, you’re totally biased from the start. You thought of the idea, wrote it, and spent countless hours editing it to perfection – or so you think. Yet if you aren’t judging your stories with a critical eye, how can you […]

Vikki Beth’s First Sleepover

Just the other day, my baby girl had her very first sleepover – meaning, at someone else’s house. She’s had plenty of sleepovers here at her house, but I finally released the choke-hold and allowed her to go to one of her two best friend’s homes for the night. The truth of it was that […]

14 Quick Tips To Help You Be More Productive

Whether your an independent author, musician, artist, freelancer of any sort, business man/woman, or even just a stay at home parent, there is always a struggle to be more productive. We wish for more hours in the day, but there is no realistic way to get them – not without sacrificing sleep, anyways. The next […]

6 Simple Things You Must Do On Social Media

If you’re an author, blogger, marketer, etc. chances are very high you’re using social media. But are you using it correctly? There are a few key things you should be doing if you really want your social media marketing to pay off, and today I’m going to supply you with what those things are. Ready? …

Sneak Peek: Poor Florida Cracker

So, I’m sure y’all will be pleased to know that I have been working on another book. I’ve actually been sitting on this one for a while, writing and rewriting it. Originally it was what I had written for NaNoWriMo last year but then I decided to lengthen it, make it into the first of …

Vacation Blog: West Virginia & Falin Family Reunion, July 2014

Well folks, I know I haven’t really been writing much lately, but the good news it isn’t because I’ve forgotten about y’all! I just got back from a one week vacation to West Virginia – my favorite state, of course. Anyways, it was time for the yearly Falin family reunion, and we had a blast! …

Love, Peace, Hope, Love – Create A Better Future

I’ve noticed in my life that most of our problems are self-made. We created our own problems by wasting precious energy on hating, bringing one another down, and worrying. What’s the point? Worrying about what has already happened will not change the past, and being anxious about the future will not make things turn out …