Wait, How Do I Write This Email? Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search is a practical and easy-to-use guide on how to write emails that open the doors of opportunity. Danny Rubin emphasizes the importance of writing skills, which are getting lost with advancements in technology. He provides templates to help you compose…
Category: Books
7 eBook Marketing Strategies for First-Time Authors
If you are thinking about self-publishing your first book, you will be competing with hundreds of books on the same topic. To make sure that your first eBook doesn’t flop, you have to create a detailed marketing plan and promote it using traditional and new media. Even if you are not a marketing person, you…
My Writing, Blogging & Self-Publishing Mistakes I Want You to Avoid
I was going through my drafts and found several lists of writing, blogging and self-publishing mistakes that I wanted to share with you all so you can avoid my mistakes. This is a list only. General Mistakes Not believing in myself Listening to everybody’s opinions about what I should be doing Asking non-writing professionals about…
Book Review: Up in Here
I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Up In Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago’s Other Side for Windy City Reviews. Can I be honest? When I read the reviews of the authors on the back cover of the book, I almost declined (even though I said yes to reviewing it). Could I write a…
Book Review: Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago’s Other Side
Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago’s Other Side. Mark Dostert. University of Iowa Press, September 1, 2014, Trade Paperback and E-Book, 254 pages. This review was originally published on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 on Windy City Reviews. Reviewed by Marcie Hill. It was a pleasure to review Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago’s…
Publishing A Book On A Budget
Your book is written. But now you have a new challenge ahead of you – getting it published. Some writers can pay up to $20,000 publishing and marketing their books. Not everyone has this kind of money, which is where you need to get creative (something that we writers are good at). Here are a…
What Are Your Freelance Writing, Blogging & Self-Publishing Challenges?
I would like to produce content, webinars, courses, eBooks and other materials that better serve my readers. To do this, I need to know what your freelance writing, blogging and self-publishing challenges are. Following is a list of topics that my online community have expressed an interest in learning. Freelance Writing General freelancing How to…
3 Ways to Start Writing a Children’s Book
God has placed on my heart to write a children’s book and I had no idea how to get started. I did what I do best – Twitter – and received the following advice from three literary angels. Ok, they probably don’t consider themselves as such; but they were MY angels that day. Read the…
Read My Article About Soulful Chicago Book Fair
I had the pleasure of interviewing Asadah Kirkland, author and founder of Soulful Chicago Book Fair, for the Chicago Independent Bulletin newspaper. To show how small world world really is, Asadah and I met in the Photoshop class at Blue 1647 last year and we bonded over rides home after class. I think I still…
Quick Post: Finally Finished Reading “Black Metropolis”!
After 9 months, 26 days and 39 seconds, I finally finished reading Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton. Okay, it probably didn’t take that long but it surely feels like it. This book has 858 pages! It’s a great read, but not…