Today on The Other Side of the Door on our Success Leaves Clues segment we had a fun conversation with Art Photographer and Cover Designer, Rick McKenzie. Our topic is the importance of good communications when you are collaborating on a project with someone in your business. Rick is a Canadian photographer who uses photoshop in amazing ways to enh…

It may sound a little inside out, but I always start writing a book or a talk or a presentation with the ending. This part of my author's journey makes complete sense to me and perhaps it will to you as well when you listen to this episode of The Other Side of the Door. Preview of this week's: Success Leaves Clues. I will be chatting with Richard M…

How do you get things done? Writer's, unless they write for a newspaper or are ghostwriters or professional bloggers, are their own bosses. There is no one standing over you with a blank pink slip just waiting for you to mess up. On the other hand, since you don't have any taskmasters, you have to become your own taskmaster. This means something di…

Today's first Wednesday segment, Success Leaves Clues, features best-selling Author Terri Levine. Terri Levine is the founder of Heart-repreneur® and is a business and executive coaching expert. She assists businesses worldwide with business growth, sales, and marketing. ... She is also a best-selling author of dozens of titles, has her own radio a…

What will you build? Imagine yourself with a pile of Legos and plenty of time. A writer's imagination holds all the building blocks for the worlds they create. Today, Bonnie K.T. Dillabough takes you behind the door to explore world building and how that applies to every day life. Using the acronym, OODA, she explores how to use world building tech…

I have spoken to so many people who have ideas that they just haven't quite gotten around to yet. I've also talked to people who told me they had had an idea for a product or invention years ago and recently noticed that someone had created something very similar and made scads of money with it. Today, on The Other Side of the Door, we're talking a…

Today we talk about how resources can give you more time and make your work more efficient in whatever you're doing. Some of the resources we talked about: Pixabay Newsletters Facebook groups Personal Mentors AI assistants such as the Echo Dot Personal Assistants via GenM.co --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bonni…

How often have you ever had a project go perfectly in every aspect over the long haul? I'm guessing, never! If you are struggling right now with something you think is important, take a few minutes to join, Bonnie K.T. Dillabough while she talks about the bumps and detours in her writing journey and how that impacts her life as an author. --- Send …

Differences are what make life interesting. Scientists have been fascinated with the idea of cloning for decades, but it seems to elude them. Making an exact copy of a living thing is not possible. You can come close, but over time experiences, environment and circumstances will alter two clones or thirty clones. This is one of the delightful thing…

Keys are amazing. Today my wanderings take me to the crux of the matter. My entire series rotates around a tiny gold key, given to my main character Jenny in the very first chapter of The House on Infinity Loop. Why is that significant to me or to my readers? It is so significant that it is fast becoming a symbol of the branding for my book series.…

Yes, you heard right. Today I'm talking about doors. I'll bet you thought there was nothing interesting about a door, but in this episode I beg to differ. It was a door that started me on my writing career. Doors are symbolic of many things. You may think that's a silly topic, but the fact is that you may not ever look at a door the same way after …

Writers don't sit around in an elegant room with a polished mahogany desk with pen in hand waiting on the muse. Quite the contrary. Authors are people. Most of them don't write full time. Most of them have to find ways to fit it all in. Most of them are struggling, just like you. The key is to not let that get in the way. Move forward. Keep your co…

Let's talk about what a mythical creature has to do with being a successful author. In this episode we will talk about how unicorns can cost you money and even potentially prevent you from ever selling a single book. Resources from this episode: Writer Beware: https://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/ Please subscribe and shar…

Success Leaves Clues. Today we'll talk a little bit about how successful self-publishing authors do what they do and what we can learn from it. We are featuring Jennifer Wilson, Mark Dawson and Andy Weir, three self-published authors who have huge followings and even a major motion picture (The Martian). If success leave clues, shouldn't we follow …

Let's talk about resources for authors, whether you just want to write a book, you're a newly published author or you need some help publishing for the first time. We mention 4 resources for authors and potential authors in this episode: National Novel Writer's Month Alliance of independent authors StoryOrigin Richard G. Lowe, Jr. (AKA: The Writing…

Wow. How much fun is this? This episode is about the idea that focus and uniqueness are really important to a writer and anyone else who wants to stand out in the crowd. For example, Future Apolcalypse by my friend Barbara Gilbert is a time travel novel. The House on Infinity Loop by yours truly is not. They both have interesting plots. They're bot…

Although most of us have been taught we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, intended to imply not judging other people, the fact is that people DO judge books by thier covers. As an author this is an important concept to understand. Authors are told by other authors to be sure to have a professional cover made for your book or you are dooming it t…

Join me for my premier episode of "On the Other Side of the Door - An Author's Journey". Today is just to share with my listeners the answer to: "Why did you decide to write a book?" It's a question I get a lot and the answer is just a little silly and maybe mysterious. I invite all of my users to let me know if you have any questions as we go alon…