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How Having Teenagers Helped Prepare Me for Being a Public Figure: A Tongue in Cheek Examination of the Crossover Between Motherhood and Content Creation

ahawthorne.writes

Sep 242 min

How Having Teenagers Helped Prepare Me for Being a Public Figure: A Tongue in Cheek Examination of the Crossover Between Motherhood and Content Creation

One thing I think a lot of authors fear when it comes to being on social media is the worry about people saying mean things to them. I'm...

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Five Tips For Managing Social Anxiety as an Author

ahawthorne.writes

Aug 283 min

Five Tips For Managing Social Anxiety as an Author

Long gone are the days when authors could life their lives in the shadows, writing successful books from the comfort of home and knowing...

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The Surprising Way Publishing is Just Like Physics: Objects in Motion Tend to Stay in Motion, Objects at Rest Tend to Stay at Rest

ahawthorne.writes

Jul 214 min

The Surprising Way Publishing is Just Like Physics: Objects in Motion Tend to Stay in Motion, Objects at Rest Tend to Stay at Rest

As an author I tend to spend a lot of my time thinking about books. Writing them. Revising them. Querying them. And yes, marketing them. ...

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ahawthorne.writes

Jun 33 min

You're Queer! Why Aren't Your Books?

This year has flown by and it’s already Pride month again! And also my birthday month! But mostly Pride! Not because my birthday isn’t...

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ahawthorne.writes

Feb 64 min

Am I a writer? Or a content creator?

This wasn't the blog topic I had planned to cover this month, but the discourse has been making the rounds on social media this week, and...

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ahawthorne.writes

Jan 261 min

January 2024- A Fearless Year

I have admittedly not done as much with this blog space as I could have been doing since I got my website set up. There are a lot of...

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ahawthorne.writes

Jan 7, 20236 min

Building Community

Welcome! I'm a little overdue on this blog post (for the sake of my pride, please at least pretend to be surprised!) so I wanted to keep...

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ahawthorne.writes

Sep 1, 20228 min

Why I Chose A Small Publisher

Reasons why I chose a small press to publish my debut novel instead of self-publishing or continuing to look for an agent

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ahawthorne.writes

Apr 14, 20223 min

Imposter Syndrome Pt 2

I promised I would come back and do a second post about imposter syndrome and what I wish I'd done differently to get ready before...

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Publishing News and Imposter Syndrome Pt 1

ahawthorne.writes

Mar 20, 20224 min

Publishing News and Imposter Syndrome Pt 1

Book deal announcement and how imposter syndrome made me less ready than I should have been

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