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I have written before about how much fun guest blogging can be. I’m still in love with it, even though the honeymoon is so over. What started as a light post or two a month with a blogging peer was kicked into high-gear this year when I approached some of the top blogs in the writing industry and crammed 11 guest posts, 3 Q&A’s, and 2 features into one week for the launch of A Writer’s Bucket List.

I wish I could reach out for a huge hug to every blogger who hosted me, but a giant THANK YOU and virtual embrace will have to do. Your assignments tested me, and your readers astounded me with their questions, thanks, and interest in my work. It’s been such a joy being everywhere, and I hope to return to… everywhere… sometime soon.

In the meantime, in case you missed some of them, check out select posts from the blog tour below, and find a full listing of interviews, reviews, and guest posts here, and see everything I did to promote the launch of A Writer’s Bucket List here.

5 Things That Should Be On Every Writer’s Bucket List at Writer’s Digest

There are those basics. But sometimes you need an extra creative boost, something to kick your writing into high gear when your career or inspiration are stuck in a rut. After you’ve gotten some of the basics down, explore these bucket list items to boost your creativity and take the next step towards your own unique writing life and career. Read more >>

Is This Toxic Mindset Keeping You from the Freelance Life You Deserve? at Make a Living Writing

Like many freelancers who come from service work or corporate day jobs, I was stuck in an “employee mentality.” To become a successful freelancer, I had to shed my lethal habits and realize that I was totally in charge of my career path.

How does an employee mindset hold you back, and how can you overcome this mental block and work toward autonomy in your freelance career? Read more >>

Why Even a Novelist Should Know How to Write Strong Copy at The Book Designer

To many a novelist, copywriting seems like an unattractive concept. Using your acclaimed writing skills to make money for some nameless company, stripping down your beautiful art to a few staccato sentences and flashy words, and becoming a shill for a bunch of boring products doesn’t sound like the writing dreams you had in mind. But don’t be too quick to shun the style. Read more >>

5 Digital Products You Can Launch with Your Writing Skills at The Renegade Writer

You’re chugging along as a freelance writer, making a good living — but working hard for every penny. Wouldn’t it be great to start generating some passive income to complement your freelance work? Something you can create once that will make you money over and over in the future and cushion your income for shaky freelancing months?

Maybe writing a full-length book is out of the question at this point in your career, but there are a lot of smaller, low- or no-cost products you can create and sell to readers through your blog, Amazon, or other means (depending on your audience and niche). The best part is you can create all of these products with the major skill you already possess: writing. Read more >>

The Only Way to Know Whether People Will Want Your Book at Positive Writer

During the two months between the completion and launch of my latest book, A Writer’s Bucket List, I would lie awake at night fretting about the book and all the little steps that go into self-publishing…

You can never know if you’ve hit the right notes. Publishing comes with too many variables. You can read as many tips and warnings as you’d like. You can bring in all the experts, spend all the money, double-triple-quadruple check the spelling, formatting, design, and layout. 

None of that will let you know whether your book will be a success. Read more >>

Why I’m Quitting Fear at Cordelia Calls it Quits

It’s time to quit being afraid, and that’s all there is to it.

Okay, maybe that’s kinda huge, and not really so simple at all.  Still, letting go of fear is vital to any kind of success in any kind of dream, because, let’s face it, dreams are scary.

I have particularly scary dreams, too.  I want to make a living writing.  I want to start my own business.  I want to help other dreamers discover and follower their own paths.  I want to sell books. Read more >>

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That masked lady in the feature image is LollyKnit (Creative Commons).