Spiritual explorations and common sense
You can now purchase Delectable Desserts from Amazon. It’s available in print and Kindle. This book is volume 1 in a series of cookbooks; the series is called Delicious Connections. Update July 9, 2021: I’ve changed the cover, and the second volume, Recipes Your Mother Knew by Heart, is now in print! I love so […]
This post is part of a series on self-publishing. You’ll find links to all posts in this series in the first post. Try this: flip through a half dozen books from your bookcase. What do you notice? How do the pages look? What about the fonts? Are they intrusive, or do they match the subject of […]
This post is part of a series on self-publishing. You’ll find links to all posts in this series in the first post. You know that expression, “you can’t judge a book by its cover”? And yet we all do it when it comes to books. Your book cover is part of your marketing. You only […]
This post is part of a series on self-publishing. You’ll find links to all posts in this series in the first post. When you’ve completed a draft of your book that you feel good about, Ask people to review it. Decide how you want to manage your reviews. Pay attention to the feedback. Consider using a […]
The first thing, the very most essential thing, in publishing (self- or otherwise) is that you need to write a book. Oh, and by the way: once you publish a book, you are considered an expert on that topic. Yes, even if it’s a terrible book. So write it! All you need to do is make […]
You’ve written a book, or you want to write a book. You have two choices for publishing that book: You can query a publisher and hope they’ll accept your manuscript. You can self-publish. This is the first post in a series. In this post, I give a high-level overview of your choices for getting your […]
We all have that friend. Let’s call her Joan. Joan always says she’ll do something, and then never does it. She says she’ll meet you for tea at a bookstore. You’re looking forward to it; you haven’t seen Joan in months. (And there’s a reason why you haven’t seen her. Just watch.) But when the […]
Instead of focusing on your fear for and hatred of someone or some group, see what it feels like to focus on loving, compassionate thoughts for them. That person, those people, got there because of their own pain and fear. It won’t help their situation to send more pain and fear their way, and filling […]