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Dear Self-Publisher, How Your Book Looks Inside Matters Too: Don’t Forget Typesetting
By now, we know how important it is to have a dope book cover for our Self-Published book. But it’s not always the book cover that gives a book away that it’s Self-Published. Sometimes, how the book looks inside makes it look homemade. Typesetting: the spacing between words and letters, the font type & size,… Continue reading
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Embracing the Beauty of Unhurriedness
We might be at the start of a new year, but it is still the dead of winter. Everything else in nature is still resting and storing strength for the spring. By then, the grass will turn green again, and new life will erupt from what I call the real new year: when everything in… Continue reading
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Doing More with What You Have
These days, I am focusing more on shifting my mindset from trying to figure out how to do something new to maximize what I already have. This includes how to best nurture my personal and business relationships. Gone are the days of randomly following people on social media and only liking their posts. How can… Continue reading
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Short Locs and New Beginnings
I was twenty-two years old when I loc’d my hair. It is the only other time it has been this short (or a little shorter than this). As a spiritual-minded person, I do not think of hair as just hair. I see it also as energy. (I believe the keratin protein in hair contains crystalline… Continue reading
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Creative Ways to Resurrect Your Backlist
Hulu is about to release an exciting new series based on Octavia Butler’s book Kindred. This will open the floodgates to new interest in the book and a host of new readers. Kindred was first published in June of 1979, which means there are new generations of readers who have probably never heard of it or… Continue reading
