Metadata Basics
Song of the Day: Click Click Boom by Saliva Metadata. Ah, the less glamorous part of publishing. What exactly is metadata and why should you care? Well, a quick Google search shows many sites and...
View ArticleLink Of The Week- It’s A Bonanza!
Hello Muse Track peeps! I was hunting around the web for a super web site to share with you all and I found this luscious little gem. You could call it a warehouse of great sites all wrapped up in one...
View ArticleDancing, Gremlins, and Determination
Song of the Day: Undaunted by Adrenaline Mob Little know fact: I am an assistant director of a league drill team with girls ranging from 3 to 13 years old. Yes…I’m insane. This past weekend we had our...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Winter Writing Festival
Craving some serious writing productivity this winter? Need to clean up the mess you left in the second half of your Golden Heart full entry? Want to finally, finally fix that pesky plot hole in your...
View ArticlePole Dancing and Writing – A Comparative Post
Song of the Day: Girls, Girls, Girls by Mötley Crüe Happy 2014! It’s a new year once again and a new beginning. New beginnings often bring in new challenges and opportunities. Anyone who knows me or...
View ArticleWriting and Censoring Sex for the Timid Author
Song of the Day: Counting Stars by OneRepublic This past weekend I was a featured author at a local county library book festival. I had a great time connecting, reconnecting and meeting authors,...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Open Culture and Stephen King
This week’s link is to an interview by Open Culture, a “cultural and educational” site, with the great Stephen King. is for all writers of any genre. Whether just starting out or a seasoned pro,...
View ArticleLink of the Week – DuckDuckGo
Recently, I jokingly mused on Facebook about whether the government would red-flag me for Googling subjects such as how to crack vaulted safes. A librarian friend of mine commented about this nifty...
View ArticleLink of the Week – NaNoWriMo Apps
It’s NANOWRIMO season again. That time when writers worldwide ban together in a collaborative effort to live off little food, water, sleep, and, more importantly spit baths. Write a 50,000 word novel...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Naughty Girls Writing Naughty NaNoWriMo Event
You may or may not know this, but I have an alter ego. I also write steamy, dangerous sexy stories under the name Harlowe Wilde. Harlowe belongs to a great group of saucy gals called the Nice Girls...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Wunderlist
If you are type-A like me, you might be a bit obsessed with lists. You might also be someone who has loads of things and/or projects they do everyday. Just like headstrong, zealous me. Conversely, you...
View ArticleActive Table of Contents for Kindle
So, you finished a book and have decided to take the indie publishing route. Now you’ve done it, wandering into unfamiliar territory. So much goes into setting a book up for sale on Amazon. Little...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Unitag QR – QR Code Generator
Create a custom QR code for your books, website, sales, blog, you name it with Unitag QR! For FREE! Customize it the way you want, too. It’s super easy! This is a QR code to my swashbuckling romantic...
View ArticleHoliday Gifts for Writers 2015
Ahh…the elusive writer. A temperamental creature seen in various forms—curious, distracted, giddy, maniacal, exhausted, joyous, feral—depending on where in the creative process they reside at any given...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Winter Writing Festival 2016
It’s time once again for the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood Winter Writing Festival. Time to get your writing groove on. Through the bleakest part of winter–January 11, 2016 thru February 29 2016–the...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Stripping Amazon’s Book Link Anatomy
Authors, did you know you might be sabotaging your Amazon reviews? You know, when great reviews disappear, removed by Amazon citing that the author knows the reviewer, etc. It’s all in the Amazon URL...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Flowstate, Write or Lose it All
What if there was a way that you were forced to write and keep writing? No stopping to research, answer emails, edit, do laundry, feed the cat or, well, do anything. No distractions, just typing, else...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Power Thesaurus
Can’t find the right word? Do I have a site for you. Power Thesaurus is a super easy word finder with an endless supply of synonyms and antonyms. It even has filters based on action, sounds, topics,...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Exploding Writing Myths
Chuck Wendig is at it again. He’s giving great advice with his unique wit and awesomely foul language. This time, he’s debunking a few common writing myths in a blog he wrote earlier this month....
View ArticleLink of the Week – Click To Tweet
In this digital age, authors and entrepreneurs are tasked with marketing themselves on social media. Love it or hate it, Twitter is a big part of our society. In our community of authors, we often...
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