Writing...Just because!

I thought I would do something a little different in today's blog. With the permission of my wonderful designer Graham Booth from Creation Booth , I wanted to share some of the other book cover design options he presented to me through the design phase as we prepared my first novel, Mental Pause , for launch this past March. I'd love your feedback on whether or not you think I chose the right cover! I'm working on my next novel and choosing a cover is definitely one of the most important things you'll ever do as an indie author. Even if you're not an author and you're working on content for a communications piece that will require a graphical element, choosing the right visual presentation of your work is just as critical as the written message.  So... here is the cover I chose:  Below are several of the other designs Graham proposed: You can see I did use the window image from this one but the woman's face just didn...

When I'm working on my social media, and especially with that of clients, I always pause, re-read, and pause again before hitting 'post' or 'share'. Then I double check any shortened links just to make sure (even after testing pre-post) that it goes to the right page. Photo from freedigitalphotos.net by Michal Marcol The importance of that habit hit home HARD yesterday and I'm still thanking the good Lord that I checked a link immediately after tweeting it. You see, I had made a derogatory comment about people who use Hyperbole. It was in reaction to a blog I had just read by Seth Godin . I included a link to a little animated video I created a while back called 'Going Hyperbolic '. Imagine my horror when I tested the link and it went to one of my client's YouTube videos!  Because of the process I always follow when posting, I was able to immediately delete it before any eyes beheld my gaff. Whew! I know, I know... we've all got sooo mu...