Jen's Writing Journey

I just won a signed and numbered copy of Writer Mama! Christina Katz is giving away one copy of the book every day in March–so you still have time to win your very own copy. Find out where Christina is going and where she has been here. I won the day 26 giveaway, hosted at Freelancing for Newspapers.

If you would like to know a little more about the book, visit Christina’s site or read my review.

• Writing Roundup, May 8 And, another work week for the 9-5 crowd comes to a close. I wonder if this song lyric would be true of me if I did not have a day job to do in addition to this crazy writing thing: "I wake up every evening, with a big smile on......
• Writing Roundup, January 22 The Business of Writing Craft Fiction Freelancing Platform The Business of Writing Is Your "But" Too Big? No, that's not misspelled, and it's not a piece on the relative lack of exercise of the typical writer. Agent Nathan Bransford gives a motivating speech on pushing through your personal obstacles.......
• Marketing That Book Many days, I like to wax poetic about the things I have learned from my adventures in writing. Today, I want to do some learning. I have learned a lot about marketing a book online, and I have some ideas about marketing one in the offline world. But, I'm hoping......
• Publicity Writers write; authors market. That is an extreme oversimplification of the publishing industry, but I think it captures one major difference between a write and an author. An author is required to market the heck out of their book(s), unless they are happy to only sell to their family and......
• Writing Roundup, February 12 Whew. This has been a week of technology troubles for me, but my laptop is on the mend. So, I'm back with some of the great writing posts from around the blogosphere. (It pains me to use such a cliched word, but I don't know of any word to describe......

• Favorite Blog Wednesday - Hunting For A Mighty Bargain. The 13th personal finance site in my series “Favorite Blog Wednesday” is Mighty Bargain Hunter, another favorite site of mine from a while back. I...
• Book Giveaway: 5 Meals For $5 by Jaci Rae. It's that time again - time to give away another book to my subscribers! As always, you will find a code inside your emails or...
• Book Review: The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method book includes real songs you can hear on the radio to teach a variety of acoustic guitar concepts. Included...
• The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur I know it is a weird title for a post, but let me say that I didn't come up with this title myself. It is...
• Yesterday's Winner and You Could still Win Sweet Ultimatum (Closes Midnight MST) Yesterday's winner of the copy of Ningaloo Nights, who visited Taylor Tryst's blog and hung out for a bit, was Anny Cook.  Congratulations to Anny! ...