At first glance, deciding to focus on Self all year sounds pretty… well self-involved. I’m not talking about making everything about me, however. I’m talking about Self in five separate ways: SELF-CARE Late last year, I promised myself that I would take better care of my emotional and mental health. I’m going to learn how…
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This Week’s Christmas Romance: Their Christmas Miracle
Before you dive into HER CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS DATE…. Wait, you ARE planning to read Susan Collier’s story, right? Because I’m really hoping you do. Anyway, before you dive into HER CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS DATE, you might also want to read Book 1 of my Collier Family Trilogy – THEIR…
It’s Christmas in October!
Ho ho ho! Not really. But I AM sharing a free sample of HER CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS DATE which is available for pre-order now. You can download your sample by clicking the link below Ex-footballer Lewis Matola urgently needs to clean up his reputation, and heiress Susan Collier is the only woman who can help….
World Mental Health Day
Today is World Mental Health Day. Mental health is woefully neglected in this world. Many countries, like the US, Canada and Great Britain, give lip service to wellness, but access to proper resources still remains difficult. Did you know that roughly one person commits suicide nearly every 40 seconds? Meaning that by the time you…
The Positivity Initiative
When did the world get so f*cking negative? Don’t answer that – it was a rhetorical question. Sometimes it feels like the whole entire world is depressed. Now, can I blame it? Not really. The world is pretty screwed up right now. But, you know what? It’s always been screwed up. Fifty years ago,…
Summer Reading Wrap Up
Outlier that I am, I read less in the summer than I do in the winter. I did though, manage to get through a few titles. Most were “okay” with one stand out for you social psychology geeks. (Paging my friend, Farrah Rochon.) The Summer Country by Lauren Willig. I look forward to getting…
Emotional nutrition
Learned a great new phrase today. Emotional nutrition. That’s keeping your making sure the emotional and psychological side of yourself is well-fed and cared for. Good emotional nutrition means making sure you feed yourself enough joy, inspiration and happiness to balance out your stress. This is why self care is so important. Taking 30…
Networking
I had dinner with a good friend last night, and we ended up in a discussion about networking. After thinking about it in the shower this morning – because that’s where I do my deep thinking – I realized I gave her some incomplete advice. From the way I see things, there are three types…
Thinking About Quality
We talk a lot about quality in the writing world. That is, we talk about putting out quality books. Seth Godin, the marketing guru, has gone on record saying that “If you can reliably, and without drama, deliver precisely what you have promised, this is quality.” (Thinking Clearly about Quality: Seth’s Bog 6/2017) If that’s…
Busy, busy, busy!
This is my to-do list for the next four months, minus my day job schedule or holiday prep. Color-coded because I want to keep the projects organized. You’ll notice that September doesn’t look that bad. Until you realize that one of those items is Write a Book. Then the month starts to look…