Author Inspiration and This Week’s Writing Links

Ciao, amici! These last two weeks have been busy, but oh so fun. It’s nice to step away from writing and editing now and then to work on interpersonal connections. And I’ve been doing just that—visiting old friends and making new ones as I promote Tortured Soul.

I’ve done my fair share of blurb/cover posts. That’s what many blog tour companies ask for. The problem with that is sameness. People see the same thing over and over and begin to ignore it.

That’s why I don’t do formal tours with a company anymore. I’ve tried it a couple of times with groups of authors, and it just becomes noise.

Although it’s more work, I created a different post for every author who welcomed me to his or her site. I did different blurbs and excerpts, interviews, posts on research and folklore. I even did one on marketing challenges where…