Poll & Productivity List

Today, I’m doing some research and would appreciate you taking a moment to fill out the poll below. You're allowed more than one answer and by all means, feel free to add a comment if you have any additional thoughts.

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Here’s to the start of a productive week, during which I plan to:

Edit four (4) short stories

Edit my Work-in-Progress

Keep up with my reading

Write a review for The Readers' Suite

Write guest blog post

Speaking of which, if anybody would like to do a guest post on this blog, feel free to drop me an email at jmwordsmith at gmail dot com

So, what do you have planned for this week? Have you made out a list yet?  If you haven’t, why not?

Essential Items for the Writer's Toolkit

Many of us never think about the marketing end of the business of writing until we get a book contract. That’s when it feels like you're thrown head first into a bottomless body of water. The enormity of getting your name in the public sphere begins to weigh on you, especially when you realize the publisher you’ve signed with does not have much of a publicity plan, if any.

When I got to that state of impending panic, I wrote out a marketing plan for my first book, Contraband. I didn’t do everything on my list. I lost energy after a while, but that’s a whole ‘nother story.

Anyway, the point is that every opportunity to market our work is to be seized with both hands.