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Shipping and Mailing
Make Shipping Easier One of the things I least looked forward to becoming an author was the prospect of spending a lot of time at the Post Office. The…
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Lana Wood Johnson
The Case for Inbox Zero
We’ve all seen it, the self-call out post with an inbox badge showing an unread count in the hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. It’s enough…
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Lana Wood Johnson
File Your Contracts
Everyone pursuing publication has contracts they need to deal with. Be it their agency agreement, their book sale, or the publishing terms with KDP or…
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Lana Wood Johnson
An Author's Guide to G Suite v Office 365
About 10 years ago my boss decided that what we REALLY needed to do was start using Google Docs (now G Suite) and would I be so kind as to become an…
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Lana Wood Johnson
Ask me your questions
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Email Etiquette or How to Write Like a Business Person
As any good writer I watch the assorted query feedback feeds on Twitter (if you don’t watch them yourself, check out #tenqueries, #querylunch, and…
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Lana Wood Johnson
Money Management for the Self-Employed
In my time I’ve helped with a large back-tax project for five entities, none of which I owned. I was also a bookkeeper for the company for almost a year…
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