Leaving on a Jet Plane!
I have been very wrapped up in getting ready for the AuthorNation 2025 writer's conference, which starts on November 3rd. The big news (if you have not heard me screaming about it already) is that I am presenting there this year!
My presentation is “ Unstoppable Storytelling: Crafting Epic Long-Running Serials” and is based on my book Become an Unstoppable Storyteller. I will be in the “Bronze 3” room on Thursday, November 6, at 9:00 AM! …I know, an unenviable slot, but hey, ya gots to pay yer dues.
So, I’m practicing my presentation and figuring out what to pack and panicking over not having any books to sell on Friday during ReaderNation (thanks, ‘zon!) and generally trying not to be anxious.
Spoiler: I’m 1000% riddled with anxiety!
But that has less to do with the presentation—I’m comfortable with public speaking, and actually enjoy it—than with the traveling. I have not gone a long-distance trip in about 12 years or so, and certainly not one where I will be there for a whole damn week!!!
Byword of the day/week/month/life: Done is better than perfect.
Flashback
I’m very proud of this mini-series of posts I wrote specifically for hobbyist authors. Not everyone wants to make writing a career, and a lot people just want to put out one or two books that hold special meaning for them or their family/friends. Too many of them get sucked into vanity press scams, so I wrote this simple guide for people who want to publish something but don’t want to get lost in the weeds of “professional authorship.” Please share with the hobbyist authors you know and love!
Guide for Hobbyist Authors, pt. 1
The goal of this series is specifically to help hobbyist authors bring their vision to life. If they want to take that information and expand it in order to build an author career, they can do that too! But if all they ever publish are a few books about their family history, or that one single fairy tale they have worked on for 20 years, or the fly-fishing guide they promised their grandchild, then they have the resources to do it well enough to be proud of the end product…and all without breaking the bank.
Spoopy season!
I live in “Midtown” in Tallahassee, which is about two miles north of downtown. It’s littered with older subdivisions and old-school “residential streets” where people really get into the spirit of Halloween. It’s a delight to walk around and see what people are doing every year. This “speed trap skeleton” went up along 7th Avenue and I just had to share!
(And yes, that is pretty much how “autumn” hits in Florida: green, mossy, and damp.)
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