Plenty of people have “picked my brain” over the years, with regard to writing, publishing, and promotion. With a few of them I’ve offered my unofficial services as a “wingman” to help them through their project as much as I can. Some of these literary friends and kin have kindly put a nice mention of me on their Acknowledgements pages…
Author: Laura
Helping creative entrepreneurs manage their online presence. Website builder & social media consultant, ebook creator, book marketer, editor, writer, blogger. (Avocations are movie review writing and graphic design.) Worked in book and magazine publishing for many years as an editor and executive.
Editorial Project Management testimonials
Barbara Coombs Lee, President Emerita of Compassion & Choices and author of Finish Strong: Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End “You are a woman of many talents! Editing, typesetting, book promotion, and graphic design, too. You are amazingly prolific and endlessly helpful. I’m very grateful. You are the best partner I could imagine in… Continue reading Editorial Project Management testimonials
Shepherding a new book called “Finish Strong”
For the past year, one of my many jobs has been serving as “book shepherd” (a paid step up from my usual “wingman” role) for Finish Strong and its author, Barbara Coombs Lee. A big and engrossing project!
My role as a book shepherd
I’ve been working like crazy the past few months on two book launches, along with all my usual website, graphic design, marketing, and volunteer work. I’ll talk more about Book #2 when it’s closer to its launch date, but right now, Book #1, The Book of Beautiful Questions by my husband Warren Berger, is publishing… Continue reading My role as a book shepherd
How to Make Money (Perhaps) from Audiobooks in 2018
The most popular article on this blog has long been I Made an ACX Audiobook, Now What Do I Do?, an article I published in 2013 about my experience with producing and marketing an ebook for my husband’s novel in the early days of Audible’s ACX audiobook production service. The article elicted a number of… Continue reading How to Make Money (Perhaps) from Audiobooks in 2018
How to find purpose and meaning without a job
A friend’s new blog profiles 6 women of various ages who have left corporate life and constructed their own jobs—and I’m one of those 6 women!
My new travel-writing gig
Read about my new travel writing gig at the new GETTING ON TRAVEL e-magazine.
Looking to up your productivity? Here are some great tips
My client Phyllis Korkki recently put a lot of her research and knowledge into this productivity guide for the New York Times. Great info if you’re bogged down on a creative project and need to push through….
“You are the best partner I could imagine in this struggle to communicate difficult truths.”
Barbara Coombs Lee, author and President Emerita, Compassion & Choices Finish Strong: Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End “You are a woman of many talents! Editing, typesetting and graphic design, too. You are amazingly prolific and endlessly helpful. I’m very grateful. You are the best partner I could imagine in this struggle to communicate… Continue reading “You are the best partner I could imagine in this struggle to communicate difficult truths.”
Book Guilt
This cartoon by Tom Gault in the New York Times Magazine is a nice companion piece to my Reader Species poster, which certainly I.D.s some of the more guilt-ridden species.
Marilyn Johnson’s hit book “Lives in Ruins”
Congrats to my friend and client Marilyn Johnson on her recent book, Lives in Ruins (Harper), an Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2014 and #1 bestseller in the Archaeology category on Amazon! She’s been getting wonderful reviews and the book is selling like hotcakes.
“Reader Species Chart” now available as a poster
After my “Reader Species” infographic went viral in summer 2013 (read about its trajectory here), a library contacted me wondering whether they could buy the graphic in poster form. So here it is, at long last, available as a poster!
“I don’t have time to read a book”—The Slippery Social Media Slope {video}
What people do with their reading has changed greatly in a mere 4 years, due to the rise of the smartphone & various social media. Read a book? A twice-a-year luxury, for most. And people admit this blithely in the context of “being swamped.”