Why Amazon KDP Changed Their Rules and What Authors Should Do Right Now | @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social https://geni.us/KDPVerificationChange "This verification process started rolling out last August! Here's the scoop..." #MondayBlogs #WritingCommunity

Why Writers Should Watch "Station Eleven:" Storytelling, World-Building, and the Star Trek Motto That Defines It | @BadRedheadMedia.sky.social via Substack https://geni.us/StationElevenSubstack Why a single line from Star Trek became the beating heart of a dystopian masterpiece. #MondayBlogs

10 Little-Known Substack Features That Will Transform How You Write and Grow | @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social via Substack https://geni.us/TenSubstackFeatures A few tips I've learned that can help you! #MondayBlogs #Blogging

#MondayBlogs Simple Steps to Substack Success (Even if You're a Complete Beginner) | @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social https://geni.us/SimpleSSTips If you’ve been with me for a minute, you’ll know I try everything first and then share the results. This is how I use Substack. Your mileage may vary.

How to watch out for scam emails targeting authors | Scottish Book Trust vist.ly/4ng6g "In the age of AI, scam emails targeting authors have grown more sophisticated – here are some handy ways to spot them and protect yourself. " #WritingCommunity

"An autobiography covers your entire life, typically, from birth to wherever you are now in your life. That’s a lot to fit into one book." ~ Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social "Five Top Tips For Writing Memoir That Work For Any Writer" #Writing #Memoir

Audiobooks: Your Guide to the Fastest Growing Format (updated Oct 2025) | Reedsy http://ow.ly/KjjK50M6nE3 “Many authors have capitalized on the increased consumer demand for audio content by adapting their books so people can listen to them at the press of a button.” #WritingCommunity #Audiobooks

"You want your memoir to have a specific focus or message, and make that clear upfront, so as to not lose the reader." ~ Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social "Five Top Tips For Writing Memoir That Work For Any Writer" #Writing #Memoir

Thrilled to be part of Amazon’s #GreatOnKindle program! They’ve selected my 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge, which means it’s a guaranteed “Great Experience, Great Value!” @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social eBook & print: https://geni.us/30DayMarketing Audiobook https://geni.us/30DayBookAudio #Books

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💥🎧 How to Sell and Market Your #Audiobook: Tips for Authors Ready to Be Heard | @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social via Substack https://geni.us/MarketAudiobooks If you've produced an audiobook, you're not done when the last word is recorded. Now your marketing journey begins. #MondayBlogs

Is Writer's Block Real? Perhaps, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think | @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social aka @RachelintheOC (on X) vist.ly/4p734 Sometimes it's not your muse that's gone missing: Instead it’s fear, focus, direction, confidence, or energy. #MondayBlogs #WritingCommunity

💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF “Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer. #MondayBlogs

✍️ "Decades before I decided to pursue an MFA, a college professor of mine suggested that we do not understand something until we are able to write about it." ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social "Nurturing a Writing Life: Finding Sanctuary in Words" #Writing

💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4 Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging. #Healing #Love

❄️ Winter in Provence: A Season of Stillness | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social vist.ly/4p5x2 Years ago and long before Tom and I had a home in France, we found ourselves in the hilltop, walled village of Gordes in the Vaucluse area of Provence. #MondayBlogs #Provence #Winter

✍️ Nurturing a Writing Life: Finding Sanctuary in Words | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social vist.ly/4p66y At fifty, I returned to graduate school to pursue an MFA in writing. Desire to pursue something for the sheer pleasure of it rather than professional ambition led me there. #MondayBlogs

Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78 In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited. #MondayBlogs

Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/JbcpcHp I used to be a painter. That career didn't work out, so I took up writing fiction - seemed a cleaner route to poverty. #MondayBlogs

Now, let’s look at the third motive for stealing certain desired art: the need for prestige. ~ @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social "How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists" #ArtTheft

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit. #ArtTheft

How [art thief Waxman] did not get seen in action or remembered when an artwork was found missing seems inexplicable. I could find nothing in any report that explained this. ~ @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social "How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists" #ArtTheft

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA 🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt #ArtTheft

Since [the artist] de Kooning showed this picture in 1955 at the place and time the couple met, [these art thieves] might have seen it together and connected it to falling in love. ~ @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social "How Love Turns People into Art Thieves" #ArtTheft

🖼️ How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists Part IV: Thrill Seeking and The Masters of Deception | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/gZAU50XSyzB I challenged myself to uncover the psychological reasons people become art thieves. #MondayBlogs

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl "I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected." #MondayBlogs #Writing

🔵 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists Part 3: Prestige — The Glorified Shoplifter | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/22p5MOt Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth – Pablo Picasso #MondayBlogs #ArtTheft

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When Claudia is arrested for the murder of her mother-in-law, everyone is stunned, especially her husband Sam. Claudia loved Eleanor and would never have hurt her. At least, that's what Claudia insists. Only with the Heart | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social https://geni.us/OnlyWithHeart #CrimeFiction

"There is a ghost who walks my garden each night, summer or winter, rain or snow, and this ghost causes quite a furor in the village." The Ghost Walk | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social https://buff.ly/46kv6Jv #Poem #Memoir #Divorce #MondayBlogs

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Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/JbcpcHp I used to be a painter. That career didn't work out, so I took up writing fiction - seemed a cleaner route to poverty. #MondayBlogs

Students, colleagues, and family members described [the art thieves] as a charming, devoted couple who spent most of their free time together and travelling to exotic places. ~ Sheila Sharpe "How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists" #ArtTheft

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit. #ArtTheft

In 2017 (more than 30 years later), when the de Kooning painting was discovered in their bedroom after both Alters were dead, no one could believe these attractive, fun-loving people could have committed this audacious crime. ~ @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social #ArtTheft

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA 🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt #ArtTheft

The 2025 Clue Short List for Thriller/Suspense | @ChantiReviews.com https://buff.ly/6wUK1E7 The Clue Short List has arrived in time for your spooky season reads! Keep the light on while you read these books! Including ARTIST, LOVER, FORGER, THIEF by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social #Suspense

🖼️ How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists Part IV: Thrill Seeking and The Masters of Deception | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social vist.ly/4nbjy I challenged myself to uncover the psychological reasons people become art thieves. #MondayBlogs

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl "I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected." #MondayBlogs #Writing

🔵 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists Part 3: Prestige — The Glorified Shoplifter | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/22p5MOt Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth – Pablo Picasso #MondayBlogs #ArtTheft

💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF “Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer. #MondayBlogs

✍️ "In a place we think we know well, we are less likely to notice details. Place becomes mere setting for other concerns. We move through the environment blind to its unique and changing character." ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social "Nurturing a Writing Life: Finding Sanctuary in Words" #Writing

💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4 Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging. #Healing #Love

✍️ Nurturing a Writing Life: Finding Sanctuary in Words | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social vist.ly/4nbua At fifty, I returned to graduate school to pursue an MFA in writing. Desire to pursue something for the sheer pleasure of it rather than professional ambition led me there. #MondayBlogs