The Future of Guest Interviews

For nearly a year, Fridays here on the blog have been dedicated to guest interviews and features. It was gratifying work and a great chance to learn more about the amazing people I’ve had the privilege to meet.

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The idea was a great one at first and ultimately spread good karma all around. I got to help other creatives reach more people. Sometimes they did nice things for me in return. However, it was work. I spent hours and hours searching, inviting, interviewing, collecting images, creating graphics, and gathering links and info to make each of these interviews shine.

As a writer mom who works from home, there are always dozens of projects underway at any given time. This makes for a pretty chaotic mind space and a chaotic mind is not an efficient one even on good days. It’s crazy making on bad ones.

Between working to finish books, keeping active on social media, writing blog posts, managing my local writing group, and also maintaining my household and being a stay-at-home mom, something had to give.

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After careful analysis of what efforts brought the most benefit and what were fun, but not super helpful, I’ve decided to drop the weekly Friday guest feature. In it’s place, I’ll be sharing something meaningful or interesting. It might be funny or serious, it might be academic or a rant – but it will be something I hope will connect with you, dear reader.

I will still be posting a few interviews here and there as I find them, probably about once a month.

Onwards and upwards!


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It’s Time To Shake it Up

change1Those who have been with me for a while will know that I run two blogs, this one and also My Literary Quest, a blog geared specifically for writers. Juggling both has been a challenge and makes it harder to attract readers. Less posts per week = less readers in general.

It’s time to shake things up.  Next Wednesday you’ll find my weekly writing post both here and at MLQ in a new feature called … wait for it … Writer Wednesdays. Ok, the name is lame, but sometimes the most obvious title is the best.

Starting next week there will be more posts here for you to enjoy. If you are readers of both blogs, yes you will start seeing duplicate posts on Wednesdays. If that drives you crazy, and I don’t blame you, go ahead and unfollow MLQ and focus on the awesomeness here. I won’t mind.

If you’re a writer, stick around. Things are just going to get better from here.