by Edie Melson Pinterest is growing by leaps and bounds as a valuable social media tool for writers. It’s a great way to connect with readers and there are numerous ways to utilize this image driven platform. Here are just a few ways to connect with Pinterest: Build boards with your book’s subject. Build boards that help you with world building or setting. Share blogs from others who write in your genre. Build boards from books you love—you can legally post the book covers and links to Amazon or the author’s blog. Build a board and share the blogs you follow—as long as the blog has a picture you can post it. Build boards with your personal interests, like knitting, sewing, bird watching, there’s no limit to the topics you […]
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Plan Your Career, Then Roll With the Punches!
I know so many writers who set their sights on a particular genre, publisher, agent, editor. Their entire life surrounds that. While it’s good to plan—and you should definitely do it—if you aren’t flexible, you’re going to set yourself up for horrible disappointment. For example, I know someone very well who dreamed of publishing for one House. They worked feverously to prepare their manuscript for just that pub house. That’s great but they weren’t even considering any other avenue. They were so caught up with the desire to publish for one particular house, others never even hit their radar. Then the unthinkable happened. That pub house decided to not publish fiction any more. For me, it was just a piece of publishing news. For this individual, it was the end […]
Read the RestFinding Balance with Writing & Life: When Life Buckles Your Knees
As July raced to the finish line, I kept one eye on the days flying off the calendar faster than I could catch them and another eye on my growing word count. My third novel was contracted via proposal, so I had my first writing on a deadline. With the help of an incredible beta reader and prayers from my writing support teams, I had this deadline in the bag. No problem. In fact, I was on track to finish early. Not weeks early, but days ahead of schedule. Until life buckled my knees. One week before my deadline, I received a call my father was very ill and was being taken by helicopter to a large hospital three hours away. He underwent major heart surgery, but he didn’t make […]
Read the RestWhy You Must Write
On my Road to Freedom Bicycle Tour Across America, I’ve had the privilege of spending the last several days in and around the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. It is rich with history, particularly from the Civil War. I marveled as I read the journals and diaries of young men who witnessed the battle at Shiloh where over 23,000 men lost their lives fighting for the north or the south. As I walked through the railroad depot at Crossroads in Corinth, I wondered what story would have been told today if someone hadn’t written back then. We would be in the dark, or left to stories being handed down—and watered down—generation after generation. These young men who went into battle are the historians that we count on to give us […]
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