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Fire Up Amazon! by Laura Pepper Wu – Why You Need This Book

Just a quick post because a)I’m starving and dinner is ready and b) Tia is about to arrive for our weekly “Angel” night. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend – mine was fantastic and very, very...

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How To Support Your Favorite Author Without Spending A Dime – Day 1

Today kicked off a 5 day KDP free promotional series for my memoir Taking Flight. As I set my browser to my KDP page this morning to occasionally refresh to view my number of downloads, I got the...

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How To Support Your Favorite Author Without Spending A Dime – Days 2 and 3

So go figure that I declare to write a 5 day series…and then we are without internet from the time I got home from work yesterday until sometime during the day today. I swear I didn’t flake out on this...

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How To Support Your Favorite Author Without Spending A Dime – Day 4

Ya’ll know I do damn near anything to avoid missing a deadline – so I apologize for not posting last night, but I was passed out asleep by 7:30. 7:30! Didn’t wake up until 10. For those who know me –...

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How To Support Your Favorite Author Without Spending A Dime – Day 5

I have my phone set to alert me anytime someone likes one of my blog posts, leaves a comment, or decides to follow this blog. Imagine my delight yesterday when from about 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. my...

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A Three Musk For Room 238

I drove down to Cedar Rapids yesterday for two days of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People training. I missed the training when they offered it in Saint Paul (pesky Cancun) and, to my surprise, my boss...

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Manufactured Books, Endless Possibilities.

Before I get into what this post will actually be about, I feel obliged to brag that I managed to keep a surprise! After a whirlwind of Costco and Target, Dustin and I went to see “Spamalot”. I’ve...

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Dear Universe, God, Anyone Listening – A Letter From 2010

I was cleaning out some clutter a few weeks ago when I found this letter I had written on October 11, 2010. I was taken aback by this letter, first because I had forgotten all about it, but second and...

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Book Nerds Unite – The Storyteller

Today was my first ever book group meeting! I know, it’s hard to believe that a writer/reader such as myself as never belonged to a book group, but it’s true. The turnout was less than anticipated, but...

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David Norton – Undated and Unfinished

I have no idea why my Dad was writing this – and I don’t understand some of the jargon – but isn’t is amazing how powerful seeing someone’s handwriting can be? I keep this clipped to my motivation cork...

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Climb YOUR Ladder: Those Lazy Twenty-Something Years

A couple of weeks ago I was at a training for the day job when I got into an interesting conversation with a few of my coworkers. They were talking about their kids, who are in their late teens or...

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Sarah Solmonson: Writer and…mother?!

As Maddie and I are sitting in my living room laughing our butts off at Teen Mom 2 (oh yeah, I admitted it publicly, aren’t you impressed at my bravado?) I find myself watching baby Aubree scream her...

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Taking Flight Collage #1

Remember a few posts back when I said I had the best of intentions to scan old pictures? Well, since Minnesota is refusing to acknowledge that it’s April 7 and 35* temperatures are really unacceptable,...

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16 Steps To Surviving An April Blizzard In Minnesota

Step 1: Set alarm for 4:30 a.m. Step 2: Slam alarm off while dog grunts at you for waking her up. Step 3: Force eyes open to see if it really did snow overnight. Before eyes focus in the dark, hear ice...

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Taking Flight Collage #2

Have you ever read a memoir and questioned if what you’re reading is true and accurate? Here’s why you don’t ever have to wonder about the validity of “Taking Flight” – I have photographic evidence...

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Is It Helpful Or Hurtful To Know How Well Other Writers Are Doing?

I’m going to *try* this new thing where once or twice a week I actually take a lunch break that does not consist of me eating with one hand and working between bites. I don’t know how well this is...

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Author Interview: Corey M.P.

Here’s one of the best things about the blogging/self-pub community: we help each other out. We genuinely care about the success of our comrades. Without this community, I wouldn’t have my very first...

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Free eBook Birthday Celebration!

Today would have been my Dad’s 61st birthday – would you like to help me celebrate? The eBook edition of Taking Flight is currently available for free! I would love to see 61 likes, shares, reblogs,...

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Happy Birthday Indeed – A Successful eBook Promotion!

Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for your support yesterday. Taking Flight was downloaded 2,605 times in just 24 hours!  (Not bad for a writer who didn’t promote her promotion until…well, what time...

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My Laptop Has Returned!

My Asus laptop returned…well, sort of. Apparently the problems within were too much for a fix, so last night, we realized I received a brand new laptop. This sounds great and all – and I did appreciate...

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