Category: Living the Writing Life

• Guest Post: Don’t Let Life Get You Down

  Woohoo! I’m finally starting to feel better, so I’m typing this from my desktop – but I’m really, really, behind so I’m still getting help from some awesome guest bloggers! Today, the talented Sibel Hodge, who writes romantic comedy and mystery.

  Y. K. Greene

  February 26, 2013

  Guest Blogger, Living the Writing Life

  guest blogger, musings, Sibel Hodge

• How I Write

  I am still horribly ill with the flu that just won’t be through. Thankfully another awesome author has stepped up and offered up a guest post with some insights into their writing process. Seb Kirby is a thriller writer with worlds of experience and an awesome mustache – take it away, Seb! Well, first I…

  Y. K. Greene

  February 19, 2013

  Guest Blogger, Living the Writing Life, Writing

  guest blogger, indie author, musings, Seb Kirby, writing

• Announcing New Book, Series Title Change & Kittens

  It’s time to dig in my heels and really take a big bite of the work currently on my plate (yay or something). Over the last few days besides valiantly battling my bodies desire to remain sick, all the time, I have been working tirelessly (blatant lie) to come up with a title for my…

  Y. K. Greene

  February 7, 2013

  Books, Goals, Living the Writing Life, Marketing, Progress, Telling the tale, Writing

  Ash, book covers, Cleaner, ebook, Eldritch Elysium, indie author, Rin Tyler, Toxic Ash, writing

• When To Start Marketing Your Book

  It’s a new year and with it comes time when I take stock over some of the things I’ve learned, wish I’d learned and hope to learn. One of those things is: when to start marketing your book.

  Y. K. Greene

  February 5, 2013

  Living the Writing Life, Marketing, Writing

  book covers, ebook, indie author, musings, naming, update, writing, writing tips

• All Jokes Aside

  Seems I really have made myself quite sick somehow. So I’m in bed with my laptop and a bunch of fluids. Good news is my vacation gets to be extended and I might get to read some new books while I’m off. Bad news is I feel absolutely horrid, don’t know if I’m coming or…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 31, 2013

  Goals, Living the Writing Life, Progress

  Delays, random

• The Not Vacation

  Another book launch under my belt, another year old, new banner for the site, ‘nother new banner for the site, new signature, lots of promotion, new cold and another dip into the top #100 Free Kindle Titles for all of three days to show for it.

  Y. K. Greene

  January 29, 2013

  Goals, Living the Writing Life, Progress

  99 cent ebooks, blather, cheap ebooks, ebook, Four Horsemen, In The Absence of Famine, indie author, The Uncertainty of Death, writing

• Extended Free Ebook Giveaway

  I am in the middle of fighting off the usual round of crippling sickness so I can push the final edits of “In the Absence of Famine” through for the book launch on the 24th. Which means, few and spotty blog posts, as well as, FREE ebook giveaways.

  Y. K. Greene

  January 22, 2013

  Books, Giveaway, Goals, Living the Writing Life

  99 cent ebooks, book covers, cheap ebooks, Giveaway, In The Absence of Famine, indie author, The Uncertainty of Death, update

• When To Pay, When Not To Pay: Freeware Editing Software

  In the last edition of When to Pay, When Not to, I went over some editing software and put it solidly in the “not worth it” column. I know, it’s still pretty tempting though isn’t it? Well to help save a few more bucks, I’ve compiled a list of free – and vital – programs…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 8, 2013

  Backend, Living the Writing Life, When Not To Pay, When To Pay When Not To Pay

  Abi Words, contractor, copy writer, freeware, Freeware image editing software, Gimp, Google Docs, google keywords, indie author, keywords, Open Office, Paint.net, software, traffic travis

• To Deadline Or Not To Deadline

  Every year as I scramble, desperately trying to pull a book together in time to release on my birthday, as the time grows shorter and shorter and I find myself having to drop this marketing scheme or that cover design because there simply isn’t time for it all; every, single, year – I wonder if…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 1, 2013

  Books, Goals, Living the Writing Life

  book release, deadline, In The Absence of Famine, on deadline

• When To Pay, When Not To Pay: Best Editing Software

  As I’ve been slogging through the muck of editing, marketing research (most of which I’ll end up not having the time to use) and formatting my latest novel, “In The Absence of Famine,” I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of programs out there offering to help writers, edit their work cheaply and…

  Y. K. Greene

  December 27, 2012

  Backend, Living the Writing Life, When Not To Pay, When To Pay When Not To Pay

  contractor, copy writer, google keywords, indie author, keywords, software, traffic travis