Hello, Sharon Hamilton-Land!!!
I’m Bestselling Romantic Comedy and Cozy Mystery Author D. D. Scott, plus the #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of MUSE THERAPY: UNLEASHING YOUR INNER SYBIL, and without a doubt, me and my muses too are huge fans of all-things-grogging!
What’s Grogging?
Grogging = Group Blogging
Doesn’t the name itself just sound sooo cool rolling off your tongue?!
Anyhoo...
Why Grogging?
Well...because of two reasons:
1. We’re Writers...and thus our ultimate goal is to “find” readers
2. We’re Writers...and thus hanging onto our sanity can be a bit of a rough ride, right?
To that end, first, let’s get the writer’s sanity issues out in the open...
Yesterday, on one of my grogs The WG2E http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com to celebrate the release of my 5th Indie Epubbed book –THUG GUARD - I kicked-off my D. D. Scott “Put Your Big Girl Panties On & Deal With It” Blog Tour.
Because yeah, to make it to your own Publishing Oz in our writing-for-publication, full of wicked witches publishing world, many days it simply boils down to putting on your big girl or boy panties and just dealing with all the crap piling up on your road to success.
Today, I’m sharing one of my “sassy observations about life...”...the writer’s life that is...on this fantabulous blog:
A Little Bit of Monika
http://monikamichalak.blogspot.com
So hop on over there now and catch my My Evil Editor Turd Anecdote straight outta my MUSE THERAPY book.
It doesn’t get much sassier than this...and, keep in mind...
This is...
no joke...
what actually happened to me at RWA (Romance Writers of America) Nationals in 2009.
Once you’ve read my anecdote, you’ll know why it’s sooo damn important to find any means you can to maintain your sanity along our writing-for-publication journeys.
One way I’ve found to do both that as well as continue to find new readers and fans for my books is to Grog with other authors who sooo “get” our sanity issues and challenges as writers and who also sooo hope to build their reader and fan bases too.
I became a Goddess at The Naked Hero in October 2010, then fellow Goddess Tonya Kappes and I brainstormed and created our next grog The WG2E – The Writer’s Guide to Epublishing – in December 2010, with the tech-savvy-super-smarts of Author Misa Ramirez and the indie epub newbie angle that soon-to-be-pubbed L.A. Lopez could also share!
Tonya had taken one of my Muse Therapy Online Classes, and she and her muse Lucky Lucy (formerly known as Lazy Lucy) immediately bonded with me and my muses The Carrie Squad (named after my beloved Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and The City fame).
Tonya asked me to become a Naked Hero Goddess, and I was thrilled to join her, Misa, Lee/L.A., and Heather Webber on Mount Olympus as the Hump Day Goddess.
I luuuvvv that with The Naked Hero, we’re really focused on Readers and Fans. We luuuvvv getting to know reader peeps and sharing all-things-books-movies-TV-pop culture-and-life in general.
Now, with our WG2E grog, we’ve created a destination site for all-things-Epublishing. We’re writers helping writers by Paying It Forward with real numbers and real experiences. On this grog, our goal is to share everything in our writing-for-publication worlds to hopefully make it a wee bit more pleasant for other writers traveling the Epublishing Road to Oz.
So yeah...we’re grogging for both readers and writers! And many of our grog fans participate on both sites...which of course we luuuuvvv!!!
With Tonya, Misa, Lee/L.A., Heather and I, we bring a wide range of experiences and career levels to our grog readerships...and I think that’s what makes us sooo successful.
We’re all coming at our writing-for-publication careers from different points and preferences.
And ohhh yeahhh, we sooo do NOT agree on all elements of our journey...but again, it’s that kind of innate differences, experiences, viewpoints, and opinions that really rock our readers and give ‘em that extra zest and spice to make our grogs must-visit-daily sites!
In today’s publishing world, perhaps even more so than that messed-up world of yesteryear, it’s even more important to be visible on every possible social networking venue – every day – and grogging gives you that kind of visibility EVERY DAY!!!
Thanks bunches for hosting me today, Sharon!
Please...feel free to comment and ask me any questions you’d like. I’ll be checking-in through-out the day!
In addition, you can always catch me at all my cyber homes:
http://ddscottauthor.blogspot.com
http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=100001238957002
http://twitter.com/#!/ddscottromcom
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/949843.D_D_Scott
I look forward to welcoming y’all to my Bootscootin’ and Cozy Cash Mystery Worlds!!!
Sexy Sassy Smart Grogging & Sanity Wishes --- D. D. Scott
