Merry Christmas With Carol Of The Bells

Dec 25, 2018 | Fun Historical Facts

For this year’s Christmas wishes, I will start with a lovely rendition of one of my favorite carols, Carol of the Bells, sung here by Voices of Lee: The carol itself piqued my curiosity when I read a two-line description of its origins. According to this, it was...

Some Good News

Dec 21, 2018 | Entertainment, My Publications

Most of my days end up in sheer exhaustion, as juggling a dynamo of a toddler, a day job, and my writing career, leave me drained. And most of the days all of these can be rather thankless. For example, my sales have been pretty meh this month, especially compared...

The Perfect Christmas Stocking Fillers

Dec 19, 2018 | Events and Giveaways

Accent on Romance Christmas Giveaway Yes, there is still time before Santa’s Elves pack up shop. Enter a giveaway, download free or discounted books, and spend these holidays reading… which is, arguably, better than anything you might fit in a Christmas stocking...

Things We Say Today Which We Owe To Shakespeare

Dec 17, 2018 | Entertainment

I found this on Facebook and just had to share (and yes, I know it’s “bated breath,” not “baited breath”). If you enjoy reading about Shakespeare, you may enjoy this post about he died a nobody and his works then got famous almost by...

J. Scott Coatsworth: Writing is Hard

Dec 15, 2018 | Marketing

Author J. Scott Coatsworth recently shared on his blog a post titled Writing is Hard, which struck a chord with me. I’m sharing here a lightly edited version of his original post (with his permission, of course) and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did 🙂 Writing...

Audiobooks: the Fastest-Growing Segment of Publishing

Dec 13, 2018 | Publishing

This is a post originally written for AzureFirePublishing. The Audiobook’s Oral Past In ancient times, minstrels used to travel the known world to recite the epic adventures of Ulysses and his companions. In the Dark Ages, troubadours would sing the adventures...

Hello, Gutenberg! How Can We Get Rid Of You?

Dec 9, 2018 | Random Musings

WordPress 5.0 was released on Thursday, and many people (those who are self-hosting, for example) were in for a nasty surprise: their entire way of adding a new post will have changed dramatically. The new release replaces TinyMCE with Gutenberg; a completely new way...

Valiant Smile Now Available In Greek

Dec 7, 2018 | My Publications

It was my nameday yesterday and I had a lovely gift. You may remember how Patakis, a Greek publisher, has bought the rights to three of my children’s books. The first one, Valiant Smile, is now available in bookstores and I was tickled pink to see it on the...

30 Sites that Pay Writers

Dec 3, 2018 | Writing

I came across this post from the Maltese Tiger via Don Massenzio’s blog. At first, I wanted to reblog the original post. However, there was no obvious way of doing so, and reblogging Don’s post would make you jump through hoops. After some head-scratching,...