If you are a self-published author, I’d love your help in completing a research project for school. I’m surveying authors to compare the amount of time they spend working with the income they’re getting from their work. It’s anonymous, but you must be signed in to google so I don’t get duplicate entries. After taking […]
Author: mrshannigan
Seattle Small Press Magazines and Newspapers
I just searched for Small Publications in Seattle and was pretty disappointed to find that none of my fellow writers had compiled this. If they did, they weren’t on page 1 and the only useful thing on page 1 was Wikipedia. So I’m writing it. If you want a list of small newspapers in Seattle […]
So you think you can guess my pen name?
I love that so many of you are wanting to support my romance writing by reading my books. Unfortunately, I made a promise to myself and my neighbor, a fellow author. I’m not revealing it until I have sold 1 million copies. It’s true and I’m not going back on a pact that’s been sealed […]
2016- Best Websites for Writing Income
I’m going to start with a caveat… and that’s that content mills are really great for beginners. Right now, I’m a little bit of a beginner again. I’m not working TOO HARD to secure private clients because I’m trying to focus on my fiction writing. That said- my fiction royalties aren’t enough to live on yet […]
Tools for Kindle Marketing
Amazon Kindle has their own built-in ad platform, and it’s super effective but since they pay authors 2 months later for sales and they require a $100 commitment, you need to either set very short ad run times or risk that $100 that you might not see back for a while. On the brighter side, […]
Writing in the middle of life and everything
So life has become super complicated. Suddenly I’m a mom of kids with medical needs in the midst of my own medical needs. My 15 yr old had surgery a couple weeks ago and I just brought my 19 year old home from the hospital, she had pneumonia and sepsis. One day she’s fine and […]
Back at the keyboard
OK, so my 2 years of job experience has taught me a few things, most prominently that I’m not cut out to be the mom that works 50+ hours outside the house with little chance of building real wealth or independence. About a month ago, I set off on a vacation with my kids. I […]
Right on schedule…
Today I officially published my first actual book. With my name on it. I can’t even count how many ebooks and physical books I’ve ghost-written over the past few years. I was always surprised by how much actual work goes into them and watching my work rise on the sales charts with someone else’s name […]
Quick update (Aww who am I kidding, it’s a state-of-my-writing address)
My writing adventures were stalled for a while because I thought life would be better working outside of the home. For a while, I was right. Writing from home had become a little bit of a drag for a while because I wondered if I could even make it in a “real” job. I felt […]