by Michelle | Mar 17, 2020 | content management, freelance writer, Self-publishing
90+ Content Ideas for Social Media, Blogs and Online Content: Posts, prompts and repurposing ideas for when your creative juices have all dried up! Small business owner? Solopreneur? Author? New start-up business? Struggling to come up with quick & easy...
by Michelle | Mar 16, 2020 | promoting your book, Self-publishing
Need (sensible) and low-cost book marketing ideas? Then don’t go anywhere! Marketing is one of the biggest challenges for every author I work with and speak to. As with business, marketing is something which needs to be constant and continuous. You can’t...
by Michelle | Mar 2, 2020 | Self-publishing, writing a business book, writing a non-fiction book
If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ve got to write a book. As a business owner, I bet you’ve read hundreds of self-help, business-boosting, non-fiction books, right? It’s part of the entrepreneurial journey really. We all...
by Michelle | Mar 1, 2020 | Editing, freelance writer
5 Tried-and-True Editing Approaches That Will Actually Help You Revise Your Manuscript (Guest Post: Jenn Gott) So you’ve finally done it: you wrote an entire book, start to finish. That’s no small feat, but as any experienced writer will tell you, the work has only...
by Michelle | Feb 26, 2020 | indie author interview, Self-publishing
When successful indie author, J M Elliott, messaged me about copy-editing her latest book, The Poacher, I was so excited. We’d worked together previously on one of her non-fiction books and so I knew what a fantastic writer and storyteller she was. What...
by Michelle | Feb 17, 2020 | Self-publishing, writing a business book
Self-publishing often gets a bad press. But it’s nowhere near what we had to accept in the 1990s when I first started in the publishing industry. The ’90s was a time when ‘vanity’ publishing was the only route for rejected aspiring...
by Michelle | Jan 17, 2020 | stuck with your writing, writer's lifestyle
Make writer’s block a thing of the past! Top tips to help you get back in your writing zone after the festivities Happy New Year! Do we still say that when we’re into the third week of January? Who knows?! How are you feeling after that wonderful...
by Michelle | Jan 7, 2020 | indie author interview, Self-publishing
I’m delighted to share another of my fantastic author’s books here. Stephanie and I worked together towards the end of 2019 and I provided her with my Whole Shebang self-publishing package – taking care of everything from proofreading right through...
by Michelle | Jan 5, 2020 | Editing, proofreading, Self-publishing
Good copy-editors have all the traits you see in your best friend. Trust, tact, loyalty, honesty. They have your best interests at heart. They reassure you when you’re doubting yourself. They know what you’re thinking (or trying to say) without...
by Michelle | Dec 29, 2019 | entrepreneurial authors, Self-publishing
Goodbye, 2019! There’s nothing quite like the end of the month/year/decade to kickstart a spell of reflection, is there? It’s not until I move out of the busy, busy work mode and enjoy some quality downtime over Christmas with my family that I can fully...
