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5 Ways to Network During the Holidays
While the holidays are a great time to take a break from the usual craziness of daily life, they’re also a wonderful opportunity to catch up with friends and family you’ve been neglecting while busy...
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How to Achieve Your Writing Goals for Just Pennies
Photo by Amanda Bui courtesy of Creative Commons If you’re a typical writer, you made all kinds of New Year’s resolutions this month: “I will publish 3 articles in national magazines.” “I will complete...
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My Favorite Social Media Tools
Social Media: Sigh. We know we need to do it in order to build our author platforms so we can get agents and book deals and make money selling those books, but it can be exhausting. And it never ends....
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7 Tools for Blocking Distractions
Photo courtesy of Audio-Technica via Creative Commons Today, social media are an important component of a writer’s life, but it’s equally important to know when to turn them off. For some of us, this...
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Four Ways to Revitalize the Author Reading
Today I’m excited to welcome Laura Joyce Davis, a wonderful writer who has some great tips for turning the traditional author reading into so much more. Welcome, Laura! Not Your Typical Reading: Four...
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Twitter and (Real) Pirates: Social Media for a Cause
Social media has many raisons d’être—to advertise, to entertain, to build relationships with other people—and every now and then there’s an opportunity to use it for a greater good, whether to raise...
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Blogging Classes Start Next Week!
A quick announcement to let everyone know that TODAY is the last day to get the early bird discount for Blogging for Beginners, which starts next Monday, June 22, at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto....
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What Makes a Great Blog?
When I teach Blogging for Beginners at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, we get everyone’s blogs set up, but that’s the easy part. Learning how to use WordPress, Blogger, or SquareSpace will get your...
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Interview: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
My interview with the director, co-producer, and stars of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance this year, is live on The Rumpus. It’s a...
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Author Interview: Frances Stroh
Today I’m thrilled to bring you an interview with Frances Stroh, author of the forthcoming memoir BEER MONEY: A Story of Privilege and Loss, about the downfall of Stroh’s Beer and the Stroh family...
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