80 quotes to help inspire and motivate you to take the steps needed to achieve your goals.
Author: Karen Cioffi
Karen Cioffi is an award-winning author and children's ghostwriter. She loves to help those who want to be the author of a children's book fulfill their dream. Contact Karen today to get your story started!
Inspiration Versus Motivation
I originally wrote this to start a new year. I wanted to start it with a couple of inspirational and motivational quotes. This led me to question whether these two words are interchangeable. A lot of us throw the words ‘inspirational’ and ‘motivational’ around a lot, so I decided to do a bit of research…
Amazon, Your Book, and Third-Party Sellers
I thought everyone knew what’s going on with Amazon and third-party sellers, until I recently shared a post from Vox on my social media. One reader had no idea this was going on. And it’s going on elsewhere, like on Walmart’s site. For a while now, I’ve known that when I purchase a physical book,…
Starting Your Children’s Book – There’s No Time Like Now
There are so many ‘time’ quotes. One that comes to mind is: “No such thing as spare time. No such thing as free time. No such thing as downtime. All you’ve got is time. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins Another one is: “We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what…
Authors – How to Handle Feedback
Contributed by Suzanne Lieurance We all will need to handle feedback at one time or another in our careers. For the writer, this feedback is usually the critique of either an unpublished manuscript (from an editor or members of a critique group) or a published piece (a review, for example). Feedback can be both positive…
2 Book Marketing Must Do Elements
I’ve been reading a lot of articles on book marketing, which led me to think more and more about what happens to my clients when I’m done with the manuscript. While self-publishing yourself on Amazon is an option, most of my clients prefer to have it done for them. Having someone else help means the…
Juggling Clients as a Children’s Ghostwriter – What Does It Take?
As a children’s ghostwriter, I usually work on multiple children’s book projects daily. This usually includes weekends. I also have a family and help with my grandchildren. So, my plate is FULL. This means I do a lot of juggling. Working with multiple clients simultaneously can be tricky. The key to juggling clients is to…
Every Author Needs to Know About Book Marketing
Years ago, my focus was book marketing and content marketing, but I ended up gravitating more and more toward writing, specifically children’s writing. Why the change? The thing is, writing has a beginning, middle, and end; marketing and selling your book is never-ending. And, the information you need to write about changes a lot. I…
One Last Edit – Rethink Before Submitting
Contributed by Linda Wilson Can you look through your completed book without making any changes? I tried it after thinking I had finished up the basic editing and even the polishing. There couldn’t possibly be anything more to “fix,” thought me. Wrong. I found more changes, important changes, many changes. Throwing caution to the wind,…
Writing Inspiration – Get a Club
There are authors and writers who feel the need to wait for inspiration to knock at their door in order to produce creative work. Unfortunately, you may have a very long wait. Writers who write all the time know that, as Jack London put it, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after…