Positive Parenting Fridays: Your Introduction to Positive Parenting
Whether it’s called positive parenting, gentle parenting, or peaceful parenting, the main tenets are quite similar. The idea behind raising your child through positive parenting is to prioritize the parent-child relationship and teach your child to be his own independent person, rather than an extension of the parent. First, please click on the image above, […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: How to know if self-publishing services are legit
As we’ve talked about previously on this blog, the self-publishing boom has led to the appearance of a TON of companies and individuals who are selling services to self-published authors. Most of these services are related to book promotion. More recently, I have been receiving a ton of unsolicited emails from groups purporting to help […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: The best free graphic design tools for authors
If you’re like me, you don’t know anything about how to design Facebook banners, YouTube cover art, or ads. Never fear. I have found free tools that do this easily, and today I’m going to share them with you. Both of these tools have a clean, easy-to-use interface that you can use to create great-looking […]
Positive Parenting Friday: How to Motivate your Gemini Child to help at home
Happy Friday! Here’s a short video I recorded last week with parenting tips on how to motivate your Gemini child to help at home. As I discuss in my upcoming book, Your Gemini Child, Gemini children generally have an optimistic, carefree, humorous outlook on life. They detest bills and drudgery and hate rote, non-intellectual tasks. […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: David Gaughran will help you with everything self-publishing-related
I only recommend self-publishing experts who I know offer value to you. There is so much information out there on self-publishing, that it’s easy for authors to get overwhelmed and end up in decision paralysis. At some point, you need to call an end to your research and TAKE ACTION. Author David Gaughran will help […]
Parenting Friday: Your Guide to Gamer Slang
Welcome to Parenting Fridays! Every Friday (or almost every Friday, since I’m a Gemini, after all, and get distracted), I’ll post a parenting tip, parenting video, or a funny story. Today, I figure we’ll start with some gamer slang. Do your kids play video games? Are you totally confused about the gamer slang they use […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: How to get what you want using Tactical Empathy
Today we’re going to talk about using empathy to get what you want when negotiating. The tips in Chris Voss’ excellent book on negotiating, Never Split the Difference, will help you in all areas of life, which is why I’m featuring it on Writing Tip Wednesday. Last time we talked about how you should not […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: When negotiating, strive for “No,” not Yes
The autonomy-affirming power of “No” It’s counterintuitive, but it works. Indeed, the recommendation to strive for “No,” not “Yes,” when negotiating is one of the tenets of master negotiator Chris Voss. You may have seen Chris Voss being interviewed on cable news or seen ads for his Masterclass. He’s a former FBI hostage negotiator. His […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: An invaluable author resource
Today I’d like to introduce you to Kristen Lamb, a bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction books. I was first introduced to Kristen through her author resource website as well as the social media author site she runs. Kristen Lamb’s website offers you a veritable one-stop resource for almost all of your author needs. I’ve […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: Insane productivity hacks for lazy people
Today I’d like to share with you some fantastic tips from the book Insane Productivity for Lazy People by Andrii Sedniev. The main thing I love about this book is that it gives the reader practical tips that you can implement immediately. I’ve been using one of his hacks for the past week, and have […]