Try Campfire, use code MANDI for 20% off: Beta reader feedback for my upcoming novel, Revenge in Rome, is in! Which means itās time to sort through the feedback and start to edit. There was so much feedback this time around that I wanted to sort through it all and organize it a little better…
My books havenāt been selling, so Iāve been working to redo my social media book marketing strategy. The first step was to start posting on social media every day. The second step was to redo my bookās blurbs, back matter, and sales pages. Now weāre moving on to step three, which is to write new…
My pen name books havenāt been selling, so Iāve been doing a social media experiment to get more book sales. In the last episode of this video series, I posted every day for 30 days, and wellā¦things didnāt go as well as I wanted them to. So today Iām going back to the basics to…
Welcome to a new YouTube series where I let subscribers design my book covers. Every month, Iāll be sending out a survey letting you pick different elements of a book cover. You pick the genre, concept, colors, fonts, and even the title of the book. Then using those survey results, I sit down to challenge…
I re-vamped my social media strategy for my pen name and I posted every day for 30 days to see if it helped my book sales. Now itās time to share the resultsā¦Welcome to my 30-day social media experiment. I have a new fully fleshed-out posting strategy for my reader-focused Instagram account. In this weekās…
Sheās Not Here is the worst book Iāve ever written. Not because I think so, but because a small handful of people thought so. When it comes to book reviews, people either loved it or hated it. Which brings up a great point: not everyone is going to love your book, and thatās okay! So…
This is my last mom-related video, but I wanted to share some things that I did to have a positive postpartum experience after having a very hard postpartum with my daughter. This is a video I wish I had when I was a new mom who was struggling. I hope sharing my story helps someone….
Itās been months in the making, but I finally sent my first draft to beta readers. In this video, Iām sharing what itās like sending your novel to beta readers for the first timeāalong with all the nerves, doubts, and āwhat have I doneā moments that come with it. If youāre a writer working on…
As you all know, I typically make videos on self-publishing and writing, but a few of you expressed interest in my birth story, so I wanted to share! I think itās so important to share positive birth stories and can be very helpful for moms to be. I had a water birth for both my…
If youāre self-publishing a book and youāre looking for a literal to-do list that you can follow and reference as you work through the publishing process, then youāve come to the right place. At this point, Iāve published a pretty big backlog of books and Iāve broken down the publishing process into a literal to-do…