This place was exactly what I was looking for as a community of experienced and novice indie writers. Thank you Julie and staff…one goal is to get to the place I can pay y'all from sales to help me get better..I greatly appreciate all you put out for free that’s helping me crawl…the community here wow! I'm learning from everyone of you, even from your questions

I have been out of my social cadence the last couple weeks due to having a surgery. I’m looking for recommendations on how to revamp my social rhythm once I return without over sharing - below are a few ideas: - What’s trending business travel - work related - E book cover progress with editor - Women’s leadership conference- ambassador announcement - Poem recording - inspirational content from a retreat I went to March-April - Rest & reboot - what happens when you push pause Open to other ideas! Thank you 🙏🏽

I need some help (or a kick in the seat). I have a second video ready to go live, and frankly its been a pain in the backside. Took me several takes, and when I used the tools recommended to me, I was able to add some quiet music background. HOWEVER, I could not enhance the video, and when I went to export it - now they want me to pay for the non-free part of the application. I am just starting down this whole video path and frankly I do not want to pay for a tool I may or may not use in the future. Call me frugal, cheap, whatever - but if you offer a free tool, then let me export from the tool the product that your free tool helped to build! Am I being silly here to think that?

I have been busy offering to do a talk based on my Jane Austen book for any organisation that will have me - while I wait for US copyright. It’s now 14 weeks. An organisation with branches all over the country offered me a fee. I turned it down because i assumed it would be quite small. I have now Googled what the fee is and found that to me it’s quite generous. Some branches also pay travel. Going forward, I will accept the fee. The fee they offer is such that a £1 from Amazon per book no longer needs to interest me. I either sell books direct or not at all. These branches plan their programme of talks a year in advance. My task now is to ensure that I can get myself invited back to do something else the following year. The book has opened this door but is not even out yet. As I hoped, there is huge interest in anything to do with Jane Austen.

Please let me know if the design is lacking or I am missing something. Thank you.