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It Is a Miracle

The Holiday Season: It Is a Good Time to Tell Stories

While reading the December issue of Real Simple magazine, I noticed this quote from Lemony Snicket’s The Lump of Coal. I liked it so much that I created a graphic quote out of it so I could share it with all of you. Note that one of its messages is clear: The holiday season is […]

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Maggie's Fall

Indie Spotlight: Novelist Ricki Wilson Spotlights Other Authors

Ricki Wilson, author of Maggie’s Fall, has created a wonderful free service to feature other independent novelists. It’s called Indie Spotlight. Here is what she says about her service (http://www.rickiwilson.com/how-to-get-your-own-indie-spotlight.html): I created Indie Spotlight as a means for Indie authors to have a tool to promote their novels. Send me a jpeg of your book […]

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Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt: How to Create Blog Content People Love

http://traffic.libsyn.com/socialmediamarketing/SocialMediaMarketing-017-12-11-30.mp3 In this episode of his Social Media Marketing podcast, Michael Stetzner interviews Michael Hyatt, author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World as well as former publisher at Thomas Nelson Publishers. How to blog as successfully as Michael Promote older posts. One of the tactics he uses is to bulk upload and schedule […]

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Melanie Phillips: An Accidental Success

The following story is a guest blog post from Melanie Phillips, author of Love by Prescription. Two years ago I responded to an advertisement about getting something published and, though my intention was to publish a brief factual pharmaceutical article, somehow the publisher on the end of the phone talked me into sending a page of […]

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