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How to Choose What Veggies & Flowers to Grow Next Year
It’s that time of year when seed catalogs are starting to hit the mailboxes! While a very exciting time, it can be overwhelming to see the thousands of options you have when it comes to deciding what to grow in the spring. Chances are, like me, you have a limited amount of grow space and…
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Don’t Want to Format Your Book with Kindle Create? Here Are 3 Alternatives
Formatting your book can be one of the most stressful parts of self-publishing. While Amazon’s Kindle Create can be a very helpful and simple tool for creating ebooks and print, there are other options to format your book. Ingram Spark’s design suite If you sign up to distribute your book through Ingram Spark, there is…
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How to Get Beta Readers for Your Book
If you’re looking to publish a book, beta readers can be a great way to get early feedback before your final edits. If you’re not familiar with the concept, beta readers are readers (sometime other authors) that read and provide feedback on a copy of your book before your final round of edits and publishing.…
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3 Horror Books That Actually Scared Me
I have a love/hate relationship with horror books. Most of the time, I feel like I’m constantly in search of a book that is *actually* scary. Not gory, not campy, not just plain weird…actually spooky and un-nerving. I feel like a lot of horror books I’ve read lately follow the same old tropes and I’ve…
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How to Start Composting
I feel like composting has gotten a bad rap in the past few years because people have been trying to make it way more complicated than it is. Some folks will tell you that you need a tumbler to do it (not true) or that your neighbors will complain from the smell if you do…