If you’re still with me after Building an Author Website Step One, I assume you agree that, as an author, you need a marketing hub open twenty-four seven as the foundation for your marketing platform. With an author website as your base, you can incorporate all the strategies available to you as an Internet marketer, such […]
Margaret Duarte
Interview with Dean Koontz Part Two
New York Time’s Best Selling author, Dean Koontz, is known for his stories of suspense and revelation, told with humor and heart. What he is not as readily known for is his ability to do a darn good interview. I was lucky enough to discover this when he agreed to answer some questions for my […]
What is Visionary Fiction?
Previously posted by Margaret Duarte at VFA under title: Relevance of Visionary Fiction. Before I explain what Visionary Fiction is, let me position it on a chart that shows the basic types of literature and genres. As you can see, rather than being a genre of its own, Visionary Fiction is a subgenre of Speculative Fiction, […]
Building an Author Website Step One: Pre-Nitty-Gritty
When I was first asked to speak at the California Writer’s Club/Sacramento April’s breakfast meeting about how I’d built my website and decided on my platform and marketing strategy, my first thought was: Hold it! You’re talking to a technological greenhorn here—miss trial and error, miss whoops that didn’t work out too well, miss if you don’t at first […]
Soul Vows: Listening to the Wisdom of Your Internal Voice
On February 8, 2011, during the first session in a Plug In telecourse with Janet Conner and 26 other participants, representing a variety of creative expressions, I felt as if I’d finally crossed the threshold and entered the paradise of discovering mind. Janet’s Plug In telecourse was full of light, inspiration, and hope, peopled with allies and mentors. It was about […]
My Interview with Dean Koontz
I was surprised when Dean Koontz agreed to answer ten interview questions for my blog. However, I was not surprised that he answers were rich and entertaining. Rather than post the interview on my personal blog, I posted it at the Visionary Fiction Alliance, a website I share with other visionary fiction writers. Here’s the introduction […]
