However, I did save all the blog posts as PDFs and what I’ve done is install them here on the Articles page, under their appropriate subject headings — most of them are under “Promotion” of course, but there’s a few of them under “Time Management”, some of them under “Career Management” and more than a few under “Technology for Readers and Writers.”

If you never did get over to the Bootstrap site, and you’re a writer,  you might find wandering through the Articles page a nice little distraction for a Saturday morning.  I’ve run more than one writer-oriented blog in my time, so there’s a wealth of information there.

And if you’re a reader, there’s quite a bit there, too.  This is not my first reader blog, either. ;)

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For the authors and aspiring authors out there, who despair of ever having the time to handle the endless promotion chores you need to get a grip on, as well as write your books, in the infinite ~!~ spare time you have left over in your busy schedules, I can help.

When I was working full time, this was a headache I constantly had to deal with myself.  I had a writing career that needed to be full time, and a daytime job that was taking up too much of that time…and I had to promote all those books, as well.

It was just as bad at the other end of my career, when I was just starting out.  I didn’t have a flippin’ clue what I was doing, and I suspect that if I had known more about the brand new industry I was in, I might have got a long way sooner.  That was ten years ago…I’ve learned a helluva lot since then.

Now I’m writing full time, and my husband Mark is joining me to run a business in an industry we both know and understand, and enjoy working in…and want to work in a whole lot more.

I’ll be frank:  I want to be able to write more books.  But I get bogged down in the PR and marketing of my books, too.  If you’re doing it properly, it can take over your life.  When I realized that, that’s when I thought about creating this co-op, and freeing up time for other authors, too, so we can all get on with the important stuff.   Bootstrap Book Marketing Co-op will let you do that.

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