For the past several months, every morning, whether I feel like it or not, I have been writing down three things that I am grateful for. When I say whether I feel like it or not, I mean when I start, not necessarily a few minutes later when I have written something that I am thankful that I have.
It’s easy to complain. It is easy to find what is wrong in this world, but it is important that we go beyond the rain and MORE

Today I have another interview with another writer friend of mine Tracy Gregory. She connected with me on Facebook and we became fast friends. I read her most recent book, her first novel called Ways of War. I wrote a review. Check out the review and interview Here!

 Because today is my birthday, I am putting out a special post
When I was born on July 22, 1959, there had not yet been an American in outer space. That didn’t happen until almost two years later on May 5, 1961 with Alan Shepard. This occurred only after my first brother was born and my mother was already pregnant with my sister. However, two days before I turned ten years old on July 20, 1969, I watched in amazement on our black and white television as Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon and heard Armstrong’s famous words for the first time, “One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” Continue Reading, Click Here

I have created a rule that I try to go by when getting to know people on social media. The rule is this: As much as possible, I try to have seven touches before asking someone for anything.  feel that it is important to get to know people by reaching out to them as individuals. One reason I feel this way is that I learned that getting to know people, builds trust. A second reason is that I enjoy getting to know people this creates a genuineness that others CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

When a person hires a public relations representative to promote their books, this is the one thing that PR people do. They contact the traditional media representatives via the news services. That’s about it. The rest of it is up to you to make happen. This is one of the reasons that I have decided to do it myself as an Independent Author. What they do is not as mysterious as public relations people want you to think. MORE

Last week I suggested exchanging guest posts with other authors for getting traffic for my blog. This week, I am going to discuss how I am now working to get reviews for my books. Last week a company offered to get me reviews if I paid them a fee for the reviews. That is thing that I never do, buy reviews. I refuse to pay any company who even offers to assist me with getting reviews. I had one claim the other day that they weren’t selling reviews, but were making review sites aware of books so that they could make honest reviews. I don’t know what you think, but as I see it, if I were to fall for their line, I would be buying reviews. A lot of better ways exist for finding individuals to review my books. MORE