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March 25, 2013
An Easter Gift Just For You
I wrote A Very Different School for a number of reasons, one of which was to tell the Easter story.
The book is fiction and is an adventure story for kids but it also incorporates the Easter story from Palm Sunday to Easter day with some explanation of why the events happened.
I’m not going to try to lie to you or anything, I do write books to earn money, but I also write them with a genuine desire to teach, whether it’s techy stuff or what bible truths.
It’s now just a few days before Easter an...
March 20, 2013
Moreno Valley Writers Launch Pad – Review
It’s a crazy journey I’m on right now – one of new experiences, new territory and new choices. It’s a GREAT ride to be on though!
Last weekend, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the fourth annual Moreno Valley Writers Launch Pad, a half-day conference put on by the Moreno Valley, CA Arts Commission and headed up by Eric Von Mizener.
If the event had been seven months ago, I wouldn’t even have registered on Eric’s radar as a potential candidate for speaking there – and rightly so.
What...
March 19, 2013
Grief – Blog Carnival
Welcome to the One Word At A Time Blog Carnival. This week’s word is: Grief.
Although this is a ‘One Word’ carnival, we have a theme for the next few weeks and the theme is “Let Go Of…” So every week, we will have a word for the week, but the theme will be letting go of that word.
My entry is below all of this intro stuff.
Below this, you’ll find a little widget called Simply Linked. All the participants in the carnival add their links to the widget and that way we can all find and read everyone...
March 11, 2013
5 Things I’ve Learned from Becoming an Author
This journey I’m on right now is fascinating. For many years I’ve wanted to be an author, but I’ve never really understood what that means or what it entails.
I THOUGHT I knew what it meant… but in becoming an author I’ve discovered how much I never knew or understood before. Here’s just five things I’ve learned in the six months or so since I signed my first book contract:
Books are worth the cover price.I never knew how much work and effort goes into publishing a book – or how many people are...
March 4, 2013
Sadness – Blog Carnival
Welcome to the One Word At A Time Blog Carnival. This week’s word is: Sadness.
Although this is a ‘One Word’ carnival, we have a theme for the next few weeks and the theme is “Let Go Of…” So every week, we will have a word for the week, but the theme will be letting go of that word.
My entry is below all of this intro stuff.
Below this, you’ll find a little widget called Simply Linked. All the participants in the carnival add their links to the widget and that way we can all find and read everyo...
March 2, 2013
A Very Different School – Free this Weekend
The launch of my book has been a VERY interesting experience.
I snuck it onto the market without really telling anyone in advance and haven’t really spent anything on marketing. This is not my ‘big’ book release, that’s Web Hosting For Dummies and is coming in June. Rather, this was something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but have always been too scared to attempt – and I still am!
People have been wonderfully supportive though and I’m getting reports from all over the world that kids...
February 27, 2013
An Honest Look at my Motivation
How often are we truly honest about our motivation for doing things and do other people really want to know?
I often read things people write about something they’re selling and try to work out whether or not they actually believe their own words and what their true motivation is.
I am a TERRIBLE salesman because I care more about the customer than I do about me or the product.
It makes being self-employed quite difficult!
I want to share with you about the free Kindle e-book giveaway I’m doing t...
February 25, 2013
Literally Giving Them Away
Finding the right price to charge for your book is HARD. Charge too much and no-one will but them, charge too little and and you’ll feel like you’re practically giving them away!
I think I’ve got the prices just about right with A Very Different School, but please feel free to tell me if you think I’m charging too much or too little.
HOWEVER… whether or not I feel like I’m practically giving them away at the price they’re at, I’m LITERALLY giving them away on GoodReads.com this week.
All About G...
February 18, 2013
Disappointments – Blog Carnival
Welcome to the One Word At A Time Blog Carnival. This week’s word is: Disappointments.
Although this is a ‘One Word’ carnival, we have a theme for the next few weeks and the theme is “Let Go Of…” So every week, we will have a word for the week, but the theme will be letting go of that word.
My entry is below all of this intro stuff.
Below this, you’ll find a little widget called Simply Linked. All the participants in the carnival add their links to the widget and that way we can all find and rea...
My First Self-Published Book
If you’ve ever been to my blog orFacebookpage before, it probably hasn’t escaped your notice that I’m in the process of writing a ‘For Dummies’ book. Web Hosting For Dummies, to be precise.
Did you know though, that I also write children’s books?
No?
That’s not particularly surprising since none of them have ever been published….. until now.
Back in 2009, when this century still felt fresh and new, my six year old daughter was in second grade at school and loved to read.
The choice of reading mate...
