This past year has been an exciting one for me and my family in many ways. My son is officially an adult and also a licensed driver, which opens up many, many opportunities for both of us, not least of which is that on our random road trips, he can drive while I work. My sister won her 200th game as head coach, a huge milestone we all celebrated. And life is pretty good all the way around, in spite…
Note: This post was originally published on my blog for authors. Near the end of 2014, I found the neatest planner, a weekly/monthly planner published by MintGreen. It had a durable, plastic cover, a spiral ring binding, was printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink, and was slightly smaller than letter-sized. Two pages for notes and a two-paged monthly calendar were included between each month, along with a generous notes section in the back and a ton of other useful,…
Note: This post was first published on my blog for authors. I just finished constructing a business plan for my writing. This month is the second anniversary of when I began writing the first draft of The Prophecy, my first novel, so the business plan was well overdue. Although I’d done quite a bit of research on publishing a novel before then, particularly self-publishing, it took a long time for me to understand all the various aspects of writing as…