Posts Tagged: entrepreneurship

Distracted Writer: Turns Out, the Day Job is… Work

posted on 01/14/2016

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I talked for a long time last night with a fellow author in another state, one of those great conversations that left me feeling energized and inspired and thinking about my writing career with renewed vigor. There’s not much I love more than a candid, frenzied conversation with another writer. Writers get my special brand […]

My Coffee House Family: Writing and Community

posted on 09/30/2014

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There are the five old guys who meet faithfully on Monday mornings, laughing, reading aloud to one another, maybe praying (I try not to eavesdrop for that part) — heads bent together over empty plates and steaming mugs of coffee and then thrown back in joviality. Young people starting and running businesses. Women gossiping, talking […]

Corned Beef, Consignment Sales and Working from Home

posted on 03/19/2014

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Happy St. Paddy’s – a couple of days late! This year I made corned beef and cabbage for the first time, and it was painfully delicious. Painful because, well, it’s not exactly health food, is it? But soooo good. I don’t know exactly where my ancestors are from (though I suspect many are from the […]

Self-Promotion: Getting Past the Ooginess

posted on 09/12/2012

For many of us, the idea of self-promotion is about as appealing as eating dinner in a train station bathroom stall. But if you are a burgeoning writer – self-published, small press or even big press – one of your tasks in this book-flooded age is to market yourself. This is true whether you’re the […]