Be a Wholehearted Author! These articles share with you the techniques I’ve used to build my author platform and publish fiction and nonfiction books.

Crafting Your World with Bullet Journals

A Comprehensive Guide for BUJO Beginners My desk drawers and closets contain many notepads, notebooks, and journals. It’s how I’ve always collected my thoughts. I consume a lot of paper, and my notepads are mostly random, disjointed, and illegible. I take a lot of notes in meetings—the brain dump of a technical writer. I

2024-10-15T14:08:27-04:00By |Art, Creation, Robin Van Auken, Wholehearted Author|
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Find the Beautiful, the Strange at Your Local Botanical Garden

I am not a botanist, but I enjoy spending time at Botanical Gardens. These gardens can take many forms, but the specimens are usually suited to the particular climates found in the state. According to Wikipedia, the inception of botanical gardens is linked to the history of botany, and most 16th and 17th-century scientific

2023-04-07T13:52:25-04:00By |Go Outdoors, Inspiration|
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Useful Guide to Free Photos, Media and More

As a writer, you're not always concerned with visual or audio artwork. It's often secondary to the Muse dictating the story to you. As a Self-Sufficient Author, however, you need media for marketing your author brand, so how do you find it and use it legally? The Ultimate Guide to Free Photos, Media & More

2019-04-10T11:30:47-04:00By |Creation, Robin Van Auken, Wholehearted Author, Writing Tips|
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Reawaken Your ‘Sense of Wonder’: Remembering Rachel Carson

The spirit of Rachel Carson lives on, instilling in the Earth's human population awareness of its fragile environment and an urgency to protect it from toxins. Although it's been five decades since the publication of her runaway bestseller, "Silent Spring" (1962), Carson remains one of the greatest nature writers of America and one of America's

2023-04-07T15:51:48-04:00By |Robin Van Auken, Wholehearted Author|
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Register Your Author Website Domain Before It’s Gone

What are you waiting for? An invitation? If you haven't registered your name with ICANN as a domain for your Author's Website, then you better get moving. I have a unique name, and there are still several people in the United States with the same name. Lucky for me, I'm tech-savvy, and I registered

2024-10-15T15:34:14-04:00By |Promotion, Robin Van Auken, Wholehearted Author|
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We Know We Have to Market Our Books, But What’s the Best Way to Do It?

Let's face it, there's too many types of social media applications, and software subscriptions, and email providers, and landing pages and funnel pages and squeeze pages and ad nauseum, to learn how to use all of them. Trying to find our way through the business of Internet marketing is a minefield, and we're wary and

2019-04-09T17:08:14-04:00By |Promotion, Wholehearted Author|
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National Archives Releases Civil War Documents, Photograph

National Archives Releases Civil War Documents, Photograph Interested in the ephemera of the Civil War? The National Archives has released thousands of documents and photographs from the American Civil War, and Wikimedia Commons is organizing them. Here's just one of many photos of U.S. History in the category: Virginia, Army

2019-04-09T17:30:30-04:00By |Creation, Wholehearted Author|
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