MailChimp’s free plan is hard to beat and that is what I used to begin building my mailing list. But when I was ready to invest time and money in my mailing list, I checked out other email providers and found ConvertKit. Making the switch to ConvertKit took some work,...
I’m conflicted about the movie La La Land. I wanted to love it and I did enjoy it. It’s a beautiful movie with charm and humor…but something felt a little off. It took me a while to figure it out (and that says something about the movie,...
I never thought I would use the word “easy” in the same sentence with “ebook formatting,” but Vellum (Vellum.app) does make creating EPUB and MOBI files easy and the files themselves look professional and polished on ereaders. When I found out one of my e-books was...
If you published your print versions with free ISBNs from KDP Print but want to switch to using your own ISBNs and distribute to both KDP Print and IngramSpark, follow along and I’ll show you step-by-step how I transitioned from using free ISBNs to paid ISBNs. Prep...
Real places often inspire fictional locations in my books. That was the case when I visited the village of Bakewell. I think of my visit as I’m writing about Nether Woodsmoor in the Murder on Location series. Some photos of the village on a gray day: ...
Chatsworth House was another stop on my research trip and it inspired my fictional Parkview Hall in the Murder on Location series. It was too cold for me to do much exploring in the gardens the day I visited, but they did inspire me. Death in an English Garden (the...
I visited several stately homes with beautiful gardens on my research trip to England. It was a little early in the year to see the gardens in full bloom, but they still were quite a sight! These are my favorites from Lyme Park, which was used in the BBC miniseries...
Hollywood rarely gets creative/writerly characters and situations right. (Just one case in point is the mom character in Cheaper By The Dozen. A publisher picks up her book and in about two minutes she’s touring and has an Oprah appearance scheduled.) So I was...
I loved visiting Bath while researching the fourth book in the Murder on Location series, Death in an Elegant City. The Roman Baths were fascinating. Read the book inspired by my visit to Bath: Death in an Elegant City. ...
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