Category Archives: Publishing books

A Writing Career Path: Finding the Joy

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Diana Stout

I found joy as a writer, but I almost gave it up. Writing is so much about the journey. Continue reading →

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Cover Adventures: Creating Covers

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Diana Stout

Not all covers are created the same. Nor do all authors travel the same journey in the creation of those covers. Continue reading →

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How to Redeem Unredeemed Gifts on Amazon

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Diana Stout

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group For November 6, 2019 Rather than answering the question posed to the group this month, which was What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever googled in researching a story?, for which I had no good answer, … Continue reading →

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Guest blogger – Keri Kruspe, Part II

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Diana Stout

As a follow up to Keri’s August 21, 2019 post as a guest blogger, where she talked about the things she wished she’d known before publishing her first book, in today’s post, she talks about the things she did right. … Continue reading →

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Personal Traits and Deepening Characters

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Diana Stout

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group July question: What personal traits have you written into your character(s)? Personal Traits & Deepening Characters Currently writing a romance series of seven novellas, I’m starting the first draft of the fourth novella, Buried Hearts. … Continue reading →

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Creating a Cover

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Diana Stout

For the past month, I’ve been involved with designing two books covers, or rather, I’ve had two different cover designers creating them for me.  In both instances, I had an original vision, but in one instance, I had created an … Continue reading →

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Error-Free Writing

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Diana Stout

When I made the decision to leave academic teaching and become a full-time writer, I knew the days would be long.  I had this vision that I would be writing new prose every day. Now that I’ve been at this … Continue reading →

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