January 11, 2021 Memories and Perspectives: Reflecting from a writer’s POV One of my earliest memories takes place in the living room of the first home I remember. It was sunny. I was playing Barbies with my sister. I’m pretty sure Princess Jasmine’s head had not yet been ripped off in a quest for vengeance. We were both little – I was probably around three years old. Then mum came in with two old people.
January 4, 2021 Goal setting: 2020 review and goal setting for 2021 Reflecting on 2020, I failed on many of the goals I set back in January. But I also achieved so much, despite all the things working against me. Here are some of my successes and failures, along with the academic goals I’m setting for 2021.
December 28, 2020 Building an Author Brand (Part 2) Building an author brand is a key part of growing your reader community. This post details six steps to build your personal brand.
December 21, 2020 Memories of the Soft Toy Soap Opera Hey, everyone, how’s it going? Today was supposed to be the second part of the author branding series but, I have to admit, it…
December 14, 2020 The hopes of an indie author There were a couple of interesting Twitter discussions this week. The first post I saw argued that any author claiming not to care about…
November 30, 2020 Building an Author Brand (Part 1) It used to be that when we talked about brands, we generally meant a company with a recognisable logo, slogans, and so on. I…
September 21, 2020 Author intention and “boring” books This week’s post is vaguely a follow-on from last week’s discussion about R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War and fantasy/familiarity. The whole review situation…
