Series
To find series and related posts, look for the topic in the alphabetical list below. You will find links to related posts on the subject.
Author Interviews and Book Reviews
Author Interview: Aundrea Hernandez
Author Interview: Dawn Colclasure
Author Interview: James Doughty
Author Interview: Margaret Blincoe
Author Interview: Stacie Vander Pol
A Visit with Miss Guided
Blog Book Tour Stop: Morgan Mandel
Book Review: Focused and Frugal Tweeting for Retailers
Book Review: The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing
Book Review: With God There Is Hope for Humanity
Excerpt: The Shortest Distance
Interview: Author Janet Kaderli
Interview: Author Miriam Ruff
Interview with Aggie Villanueva
Interview with Author Renae Brumbaugh
Interview with David Bowles, Author of The Westward Sagas
Interview with Donna Wright, Always Keepers Press
Interview with Gayle Trent
Interview with Micki from A Village Shattered
Interview with Morgan Mandel Wednesday
Interview: Pat & James Taylor
Interview: Wendy Burt-Thomas
James Doughty Coming to Visit
Janet Kaderli Visiting this Week
Journal: Intimate Writings of a Relationship with God
Message in a Word
Miss Guided and Richard Turner
My Reviews at Goodreads
Re-Deal: A Time-Travel Thriller
Review: 365 Tips for Writers
Review: An Axe to Grind
Review: Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Maguires
Review: Morning Coffee with James
Review of Rightfully Mine: God’s Equal Rights Amendment
Review: Santa’s Angels by Janet Kaderli
Review: Top Self-Publishing Firms
Review: The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters
The Taylors Coming to Visit
A Visit with Miss Guided
Barter:
Barter—Part 1: What Is It?
Barter—Part 2: What Is the Benefit?
Barter—Part 3: Who Does It?
Barter—Part 4: How Does It Compare to Cash?
Connecting—Part III: Trade Exchanges
Bible:
National Bible Week 2007
National Bible Week 2008
National Bible Week 2009
Reading the Bible: Part 1 – Bible Reading Plans
Reading the Bible: Part 2 – Reading to Learn and Understand
Blog Book Tour:
Blog Book Tour: Part 1—What Is It?
Blog Book Tour: Part 2—Advice for Authors
Blog Book Tour: Part 3—Advice for Hosts
Blog Book Tour: Part 4—Review
Blogging:
Blog: Private Home or Public Meeting Place?
Blogging Ethics
Blogging Metaphor: Blogging Is a Large City with Hundreds of Small Neighborhoods
Comment Spam, Do Follow, Keyword Names, and You
Comments and New Plugins
Comments, Spam, and Comment Spam
Compiling Thanks to Commenters
Double Whammy: Blast from the Past Meme and Carnival of Circular CommunicationA Humorous Look at My Pet Blogging Peeves
I Still Don’t Talk to Keywords
New Comment Policy: No Name, No Comment
Tips for Better Blogging
What Do You Think of Weekly/Monthly Roundups, Themes, and Link Love Posts?
What Blogging Means to Me
Why Do So Many Keywords Visit My Blog?
Characters
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 1: Characters Are Story People
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 2: Finding and Creating Characters
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 3: Revealing Characters and Point of View
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 4: Fleshing Out Characters with Tags, Traits, and Relationships
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 5: Developing Background And Traits Using A Character Chart, Bio, Diary, or Interview
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 6: Putting The Right Words In Their Mouths
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 7: Giving Characters Goals and Motivation
Creating Fictional Characters—Part 8: Developing Characters throughout Your Story
Client Relationships:
Building Long-Term Client Relationships – Part 1: Why
Building Long-Term Client Relationships – Part 2: Getting Started
Building Long-Term Client Relationships – Part 3: My Business Model
Building Long-Term Client Relationships – Part 4: Example – The Beginning
Building Long-Term Client Relationships – Part 5: Example – The Relationship Continues
Building Long-Term Client Relationships – Part 6: Nine Tips for Success
Clients’ Book Awards:
Exciting news … and you can make it more exciting
The Last Boat Out is an EPPIE winner!
The New Day Dawns is a contest finalist!
Spring House is a Finalist in the Indie Book Awards!
Copyright:
Copyright: Part 1 – Just Because It’s Online Doesn’t Mean It’s in the Public Domain
Copyright: Part 2 – US Copyright Law
Copyright: Part 3 – Fair Use
Copyright: Part 4 – Protecting Your Copyright
Critique and Other Writing Groups:
About Critique Groups
Beware of the Wrong Critique Groups
The Value of Brainstorming
The Value of Writers Groups
Domestic Violence:
Christians and Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence and You
Let’s End Domestic Violence
Make a Comment and I’ll Make a Donation
Million Voices Campaign
Podcast at Bluestocking Guide
Supporting Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Thank You for Helping Me Support NDVH
E-books and E-Publishing:
Answers to a Writer’s Questions, Part 2: Children’s Book on CD
Answers to a Writer’s Questions, Part 3: Marketing a Children’s E-Book
Dream or Destiny and the Kindle
E-Books, Part 1: I read throughout a four-hour power outage(/a>
E-Books, Part 2: Short Nonfiction (How-To) E-Books
E-Books, Part 3: Books from Electronic or Traditional Publishers
E-Books, Part 4: Electronic Reading Devices
Blog Action Day: Publishing and the Environment
Free E-Books for Read an E-Book Week 2009
Free E-Books for Read an E-Book Week 2010
More Free E-Books
The Growing E-Book Market
Read an E-Book Week
Read an E-Book Week 2
Read an E-Book Week Coming Soon
Read an E-Book Week Next Week
Reminder: Read an E-Book Week
Self-Publishing Primer: Part 13 – Do I need a Web site and should I make my book available as an e-book?
What Will the Kindle Do for the E-Publishing Industry?
Editing (also see Writing and Self-Editing):
Editing: Part 1 – What is editing?
Editing: Part 2 – What are the different kinds of editing?
Editing: Part 3 – When should I start editing?
Editing: Part 4 – What are style guides and why do I need them?
Editing: Part 5 – What steps should I follow when I edit?
Editing: Part 6 – What should I look for when I edit?
Editing: Part 7 – Do I need an outside editor?
Ten Tips to Impress an Acquisitions Editor
Ten Tips to Impress an Editor after Acceptance
Who Needs an Editor?
Freelance Writing:
So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Part 1: Learning about the Business
So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Part 2: Choosing What You will Do
So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Part 3: Finding Gigs
So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Part 4: Advice from the Pros
Freelance Writing and Editing Rates (see also Resources for Writers):
Freelance Editing Rates: Most Popular Search Term
Freelance Rates – Part 1: Determining Your Worth as a Freelancer
Freelance Rates – Part 2: Hourly vs Project
Freelance Rates – Part 3: Setting Freelance Writing and Editing Prices
Freelance Rates Survey
Freelance Rates Survey Results
How Much Will It Cost? Average Freelance Editing Rates
Self-Publishing Primer: Part 11 – How Much Does Self-Publishing Cost?
What are your prices for writing and editing services … and how much value do you give?
Working with a Professional Editor: Part 1 – Finding the Right Editor
Working with a Professional Editor: Part 2 – How It Works
Writer’s Worth Day
Writer’s Worth Day 2
Writer’s Worth Day 2010
Goals and Productivity:
2008 Blogging Goals? Plans, maybe …
Focus and Organization
Looking Ahead
Looking Back
Memes and Gotta Get Goals!
Shared Answers 2007: Part 1, The Problem
Shared Answers 2007: Part 2, The Solution
SMART Goals
Productivity Tips
Healing Miracles:
Healing Miracles: Part 1—Why Am I Surprised?
Healing Miracles: Part 2—Remembering and Longing
Healing Miracles: Part 3—Thanks Be to God
Job Search:
Job Search: Part 1—How to Write an Interview-Winning Resume
Job Search: Part 2—Cover Letters
Job Search: Part 3—Interviews
Looking for a Job?
Journaling:
Journaling: What the heck is a journal anyway?
Journaling: Connecting the Dots
Life Lessons/Inspiration (also see Rejection and What I Learned from …):
25 Words of Work/Life Wisdom
Abject Terror + A Bluff = New Confidence
Balance in Life
Blog Action Day
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty—I Will Do Something
Blog Action Day: Publishing and the Environment
Bloggers Unite in Acts of Kindness
Bloggers Unite for Hunger and Hope
Blogging for a Great Cause: Bloggers Against Abuse
Catalyst: God’s Tool
The Most Basic Human Right: Life
People First: Empowering People with Disabilities
Rebooting and the Fourth Commandment
Seven Things I’m Thankful For
Slavery and Abortion: Moral Relatives
A Thirty-Six Year Tragedy
You May Never Know the Impact You Have
Lillie and Her Writing (also see Stroke):
An Anniversary: How I Became a Full-Time Writer
The Apprentice Who Won’t Be Fired
A Different … and Special … Family Vacation
Birthdays and Thanks
Christmas Memories
Dream or Destiny Is Launched
Eight Random Facts
Eight Random Things about Lillie
Five Things
Free Stories and Articles
It’s Funny NOW, But Then … It Was Frightening: MRI Horror Story
Memories of My Father
Memories of My Mother
Mission Impossible: Book Trailer for Dream or Destiny
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know: Eight Things About My Writing and Me
My Love Affair with Writing
My Olympic (Festival) Experience
New Novel Released: Dream or Destiny
Remembering My Parents
Seven Random Things
Magical Thinking:
1. What I Learned from People with Magical Thinking
2. Authors and Magical Thinking
3. Someone Who Isn’t a Magical Thinker
4. More on Magical Thinking
Memoir and Family History:
Memoir and Family History: Part 1—Leaving a Legacy
Memoir and Family History: Part 2—Memoir
Memoir and Family History: Part 3—Family History
Memoir and Family History: Part 4—Getting Started
Memoir and Family History: Part 5—Writing
Memoir and Family History: Part 6—Publishing and Distribution
News Releases:
News Releases: Part 1 – What a News Release Is and What It Isn’t
News Releases: Part 2 – When to Send Them
News Releases: Part 3 – How to Write Them
News Releases: Part 4 – Where to Distribute Them
POD (Print on Demand):
POD: Part 1 – What It Is
POD: Part 2 – Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing with POD
POD: Part 3 – Pros and Cons of Using a POD Subsidy Publisher
POD: Part 4 – POD Publishers
Rejection:
Every “No” Is Just One Step Closer to a “Yes”
Rejected? You’re in Good Company
Rejection: Keep Looking for the Right Address
Rejection: Your baby is ugly!
What I Learned from Rejection
Resources for Writers (see also Freelance Writing):
Authors on the Net: A Resource for Writers
Blogs by and for Writers
Freelance Writing Job Sites
Nothing Binding: Making a Connection between Readers and Writers
Reference Resources for Writers and Readers
Resources for Students and Educators … and Maybe the Rest of Us, Too
Resources for Young Writers
Resources for Writers
Resources for Writers
Writing and Publishing Q&A
Self-Publishing/Publishing:
Self-Publishing Primer: Parts 1 – 14 and Authors on the Net Podcast Parts 1 – 4
Self-Publishing Primer (the entire series compiled in a PDF file)
Finding a Publisher
Five Publishing Hurdles
The Realities of the Publishing World: Traditional, Subsidy, and Self-Publishing
Sources of Freelance Business:
Connecting – Part I: Referrals
Connecting – Part II: Search Engines
Connecting – Part III: Trade Exchanges
Stroke:
May Is Stroke Awareness Month
National Stroke Awareness Month: My Stroke – the Beginning
National Stroke Awareness Month: My Stroke – The Next Three Days
National Stroke Awareness Month: My Stroke – the Aftermath
National Stroke Awareness Month: Stroke Risk Factors and Symptoms
What I Learned from …
Adversity? What Adversity?
Life Is a Piece of Cake
What I Learned from Animals
What I Learned from a Blooper
What I Learned from a Colorful Character: Eliminate This Word
What I Learned from Door-to-Door Sales
What I Learned from Government
What I Learned from Laughter
What I Learned from the Law
What I Learned from Limits
What I Learned from Love
What I Learned from Mashing It Up
What I Learned from My First Vacation in a Wheelchair
What I Learned from the Plant World
What I Learned from Rejection
What I Learned from Stress
What I Learned from Working for the Government
What I Learned from The World of Sports
Working with a Professional Editor
Working with a Professional Editor: Part 1 – Finding the Right Editor
Working with a Professional Editor: Part 2 – How It Works
Writing Ethics
Ghost-Writing: Is It Ethical
Writing Ethics 1: Fake Testimonials
Writing Ethics 2: Voting in Readers’ Choice Contests
Writing Ethics 3: Reviews
Writing Ethics 4: Amazon Ranking and Bestseller Status
Writing and Self-Editing (also see Editing):
Blogs That Roar: 3 Tips for Powerful Writing
Editing: Turning Dreck into Prose
The First Draft: Pure Green Dreck
How to Write an Interview-Winning Resume
I Love to Write Day and My Best Writing Advice
Lessons for Writers from the Spurs’ NBA Championship
My Ideal Writing Weekend
Rules or artistic license
Seven Tips for Professional and Nonprofessional Writers
Show and Tell
Show and Tell Exercises
Ten Tips for Self-Editing
Tips and Tricks: How to Write, Send, Reply, and Forward E-Mail
Top Five Keys to Successful Persuasive Writing
Write What You Know or Know What You Write?
Writing about Tragedy
Writing, Health, and Well-Being
Writing versus Editing