Laina Turner, Author
L.C. Turner, Author

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4 ways to market your self-published book
4 ways to market your self-published book

How to market your self-published book If you’re already a self-published author you know, that writing is the easy part. Marketing and selling your books is much, much harder. If you haven’t got to the marketing point in your writing career now you know. Marketing is not usually the fun part of an author career […]

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Beating Overwhelm
Beating Overwhelm

Beating overwhelm isn’t easy.  Sometimes when I look at my to-do list, I want to go back to bed and hide under the covers. I want someone to take me away from the never-ending things that need doing. Or do them for me. A fairy godmother would work. Is that too much to ask for? […]

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How to Handle Criticism as an Author
How to Handle Criticism as an Author

One of the hardest things you have to do as a writer is figuring out how to handle criticism as an author. It’s the one thing that freaks the writers I know out the most. Let’s be honest it freaks everyone out. Who likes criticism? NO ONE! I know when I published my first book […]

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5 Ways to Beat a Monday Slump
5 Ways to Beat a Monday Slump

I don’t know about you, but sometimes it’s hard for me to get going on a Monday. Even though I work on the weekends, it’s not as structured as during the week because the kids aren’t in school and we’re running all over the place. So for me, weekends are usually more exhausting than workweeks. […]

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Ari’s Adventure – a Moonshire Bay Clean Small Town Romance
Ari’s Adventure – a Moonshire Bay Clean Small Town Romance

Download this clean, small-town romance now Chapter 1 Ari was so glad the kids were coming home from college soon. Her youngest, Katie, was finishing up her freshman year at Michigan State, and her son, Sam, his junior year at Marquette. It was still hard for her to believe her kids were grown when it […]

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Top 5 Steps to Making a Living As An Author
Top 5 Steps to Making a Living As An Author

Hi, I’m so glad you stopped by! Do you like fiction novels? Then you’re in the right place. I not only write them but I also LOVE helping other authors realize their dreams. I now have over 50 fiction books published, not counting the boxed sets. Being an author is seriously the BEST and one […]

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