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For Aspiring Authorpreneurs: Honest reflections and strategies for showing up, sharing your work, and finding your readers—while keeping your soul, sanity, and sense of self intact. (From someone in the trenches with you.)
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The Truth About Selling Fiction No One Says Out Loud (opens the original)
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If you’ve been in the author/aspiring author space for any length of time, you know there are hundreds of gurus, or Gmail scammers, online telling you that they’ve cracked the code to help your book become a bestseller (for a hefty price tag, of course). That’s not what this post is.I’m choosing to share my honest experience during my first year marketing my contemporary fiction novel because, about two weeks ago, I had a thought pop into my head that I chose to post here on Substack, and the re
My Author Debut: In Retrospect (opens the original)
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Quick Book II Update:Leena Gets a Rewrite officially has an online presence! Shoutout to my amazing VA Andrea for creating this adorable video! Leena won’t be out in the wild until April 13th, BUT you can read the first three chapters now for free to get a preview of her story! Just click the pretty pink button below. ;) Start Leena's StoryNow, back to our r
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