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New Authors Community.

I'm Tom Blubaugh, CEO of Common Sense Marketing Strategies, LLC and Tom Blubaugh Literary Strategist, LLC. My corporations and I are developing an online authors community--authors helping authors--a new concept for a writing community. You will be doing yourself an...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” Part I

    "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." This is a partial quote from Charles Dickens a Tale of two Cities and sounds a lot like the world of authors today. On the one hand we have access to nearly the whole world through the Internet —...

Do You Struggle to Find Time for Writing?

So many authors and writers share their struggle to find time for writing.  This creative need drops by the wayside as they care for family, deal with health issues, and work full or part-time. I totally get it!   Barbara, my wife, raised four children as a...

Why Story Telling is the Essence of Marketing.

Marketing is often the biggest roadblock for authors. Many of them have a story to tell, and they present it in a remarkable way. Yet, when it comes to sharing their story with the world, they balk. This is the reason many authors have a large inventory of books in...

Marketing to People Not Numbers.

Guest blog article by Jennifer L. Self. I recently attended a play portraying Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. The setting was 16th century England, right before the death of Henry VIII. His son, Edward, succeeded him to the throne but lived for a very short...

WHAT FUELS YOUR FIRE? ONE ANSWER: KINDLING!

By Whitney McKendree Moore This happens to me constantly! Working with Tom Blubaugh, Literary Strategist, opened my mind about marketing, which, until I met Tom, I had considered practically a swear word. It was Tom who first suggested to me that all marketing really...

Do you have a team to help you succeed?

Writers are enigmas! Passion drives them to pour their heart out on paper. Then they realize that like the monarch in The Emperor's New Clothes, they are standing in public in their birthday suit.  That’s why it’s imperative to have “good” team support when you embark...

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