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Christmas is Here Again | On Holidays and Happy Chaos (Part I)
With Thanksgiving now in the rearview mirror, it seems like everyone is ready to pull out the tree skirt, boxed ornaments, and Mannheim Steamroller albums––if they haven’t already! Out comes the fine...
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Christmas is Here Again | On Holidays and Happy Chaos (Part II)
Last week, I launched a series of blogs in conversation with the 2014 holiday season now rapidly drawing to a middle, and I began by addressing one of the common fallacies of holiday marketing for the...
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Christmas is Here Again | On Holidays and Happy Chaos (Part III)
I have good news and bad news, and it’s the same news. Should I ever face a film-worth scenario in which I have to choose, I will always choose to hear the good news first, so here it is: Today is...
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12 New Year’s Resolutions for the 12 Days of Christmas (part I)
I know it’s a bit early to be setting my New Year’s resolutions in stone, so I’ll consider this post something softer than stone, more easily reshaped, but still very much real and solid and...
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12 New Year’s Resolutions for the 12 Days of Christmas (part II)
Well, today marks my last blog of 2014, so it’s only fitting that I finish my list of New Year’s resolutions with both a bang and a whimper—or rather, with a mixed list of strategies that require me to...
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In Your Corner : The Gift of Self-Publishing
Today, if you’ll let me, I’d like to speak a little bit about the gift of self-publishing–about how it’s a gift not to have to wait for an agent to accept your book, how you no longer need to give away...
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Put a Little Soul Back Into Marketing This Christmas
This is the time of the year when there’s snow on the roads in my part of the world, the days are short and dark by five in the evening, and everyone’s going a bit stir crazy. Tensions are at a fever...
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In Your Corner : Christmas Traditions!
In this busy world, our equally busy lives can sometimes get in the way of passing along traditions to our family. Publishing a novel, a memoir, a cookbook, or some other piece of writing is an...
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Ringing in the Holidays: Christmas Edition!
We all know how wonderful it is to have holiday traditions, those things we do year after year and never tire of because they bring us nostalgia for our youth or for holidays in general. However, in...
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From the Archives: “5 Reasons to Self-Publish in December”
Welcome back to our Tuesday segment, where we’ll be revisiting some of our most popular posts from the last few years. What’s stayed the same? And what’s changed? We’ll be updating you on the facts,...
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The Alchemy of Holiday Marketing (Part V)
It’s a fashionable thing to limit our conversations about gratitude to the time around Thanksgiving, when all the stationary and gift displays and card racks at Hallmark all feature gratitude as their...
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