Literary Stewardship

A little over a year ago, Maximum Impact hired a project manager, Heidi Johnson, to join our team. The changes that Heidi’s skill set and precision have enabled are too many to list. But [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the first chapter of my novel, Still Come Home, is published in the anniversary issue of Consequence Magazine. Consequence is an international literary magazine [...]

In the spirit of Literary Stewardship, I want to share two outstanding resources with my readership. I used the term “virtual assistant” (VA) in the title to this blog post because it [...]

I want to (re)share an article that I wrote for The Billfold a while back, featuring some of the things I learned doing a DIY book tour with an average of 1 event per week for an entire year. [...]

 If your book was recently published, you just signed a contract, or you know you’ll be submitting to publishers within the next 12 months, now is the time to think creatively about how to [...]

Image Source Recently, I blogged about quick tips for readers and writers looking to support their local indy booksellers. Expanding on that theme, today I’d like to share a few ideas about [...]

. Here’s a thought experiment: Before you leave, you’ll want to make sure to do laundry. You’re traveling on a book tour and you don’t have that many clean socks and [...]

This fall has been about conversations: in person, via snail mail, and through email. As writers and artists, conversations are the foundation of genuinely building an online presence and lasting [...]

In preparation for the release of Flashes of War and my 52 event book tour from 2013-14, I found myself getting overwhelmed with tasks. What felt like 3,276 tasks was actually just three: [...]

It’s fall, and I’ve been thinking a lot about what I was doing 4 years ago. I’d had a few dates with Brad by that point, but I was largely preoccupied with my DIY book tour. I [...]