Dealing with Negativity: The Myth of Thick Skin

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Hello everyone! This is my first article as an official WG2E contributor (rather than just a guest of the fabulous Talli Roland.) Thank you to DD for inviting me to join the team! So today what’s on my mind is part of the journey every author has to contend with: criticism. Author Matt Haig wrote [...]

Blogging Bling and JT’s tips on blogging

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday when she made comment that made me think how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. Specifically she was talking about an email newsletter that had some good information in it but it took seven scrolls to get [...]

Social Media Sharing Buttons and why we need them…

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If you have a blog, I suggest that you make sure you have social media sharing buttons like this: These aren’t follow me buttons (you should have those too), but buttons your followers can click and immediately share your content to their followers. Having these social media sharing buttons doesn’t mean you need to have [...]

The wonderful world of Tweetdeck and Twitter management

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One of the questions on I was asked on the introduction blog a month or so ago came from Cynthia Woolf and she asked, “I’d be most interested to learn about Hoot Suite/Tweetdeck. It would be wonderful to be able to schedule my tweets so I can do other things during the day. Tweeting can [...]

What’s So Special About Indie?

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What’s So Special About Indie? By Scott Nicholson Now that virtually every person with a keyboard and Internet connection is a published author, what’s so special about you? Let’s face it, how many of us roll our eyes when yet another “new author” adds us as a friend on social media, and then blasts a [...]