The Unsinkable Molly Greene With 8 Tips You Need!

On September 21, 2012, in Blogging, Guest Posts, MOLLY GREENE, by rsguthrie

Eight Tips That Will Help You Rock Your Blog By Molly Greene When I started my journey into indie authorhood in early 2011, I set up a free blog (because I heard I was supposed to) and racked my brain about what to write that the world might be interested in reading (gah!). I agonized […]

 

There’s Branding, Then There’s BRANDING

On September 12, 2012, in Book Covers, Branding, Marketing, The Market, by rsguthrie

The day I married my wife, she put her brand on me. No, it wasn’t anything in the BDSM realm (I don’t even know if I got that acronym correct). The brand she put was on my heart and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Today is my birthday and we are finally […]

 

Twitter Downsizing (And A Request)

On September 9, 2012, in Blogging, Mea Culpa, Twitter, by rsguthrie

For those of you who are down on me bloggin’ so much, don’t worry—I’ve decided to back off to Friday Blogs only unless there’s something fairly important I want to say (like this). By the way, next week is Molly on Writing, a brilliant guest post by super-blogger Molly Greene you are not going to […]

 

Scuds: Writers Who Use Reviews To Hurt Other Writers

On September 8, 2012, in Amanda Hocking, Book Reviews, Opinion, Reviewers, by rsguthrie

I was never that big a believer in the “One Hit Wonder” as a necessarily deliberate act to sabotage another author’s work. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. If there’s anything in this world that you think never happens (aside from Republicans voting for Obama on anything), I’d at least suggest you take another look […]

 

A Mother’s Birthday: A Writer Who Dreamed The Dream

On September 7, 2012, in Book Covers, In Memoriam, Past Writing, by rsguthrie

Today would have been my mother’s birthday. I believe she would have been 69. She died at 60 in the hospital after for the second time in life beating the odds against what she went in for (pneumonia), only to get a staph infection in the hospital that lead to a released clot to her […]

 

Who Am I? (Or: The Iceman Cometh)

On September 2, 2012, in Uncategorized, by rsguthrie

We spend so much time flopping around like a trout on the shore of our little ponds, trying desperately for someone with some REAL clout (not Klout, the most ridiculous app-driven invention since Digg) to notice our work that some of us are even willing to pull our books from every other outlet, sales point, […]

 

Grab 7 iAi Kindle Reads For The Charge Of A Download!

On September 1, 2012, in Giveaways, by rsguthrie

This Labor Day Weekend, for three full days, the members of Independent Authors International have each offered a book for free download. For any avid reader it’s always great to find “one-stop shopping” where one can download seven great books to their Kindle (or Kindle application) for nothing more than the cost of the bandwidth […]