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I Tried a BookBub Featured Deal—Here’s What Happened

April 3, 2025

I Tried a BookBub Featured Deal—Here’s What Happened

April 3, 2025

I’d always heard that landing a Bookbub deal could really help with marketing your book. I’d tried a couple of times before with no luck. But recently, I submitted my…

Selling a Million Books: What Worked for Us (and Can Work for You, Too)

April 27, 2023

Selling a Million Books: What Worked for Us (and Can Work for You, Too)

April 27, 2023

As you may know, Angela and I have recently reached the unbelievable milestone of having sold a million books. Meet the kids I say “unbelievable” because this was never in…

We’ve Reached the One Million Books Milestone!

April 25, 2023

We’ve Reached the One Million Books Milestone!

April 25, 2023

Once upon a time… Two novice writers met in an online critique group called the Critique Circle and became fast friends. Angela (a Canadian) wrote about zombies and pirates and…

5 Reasons to Consider Translating Your Work

March 25, 2020

5 Reasons to Consider Translating Your Work

March 25, 2020

Happy to welcome Savannah Cardova from Reedsy who has some good information to share on book translations. As many of you know, we have a foreign rights agent and have…

Milestones that Provide a Valuable Opportunity to Look Back

February 11, 2018

Milestones that Provide a Valuable Opportunity to Look Back

February 11, 2018

So, funny story. In January, Becca and I hit 10 years of blogging. TEN YEARS. That’s a lot of time, but also not a lot of time, because we all…

Help Us Celebrate Our 200,000 Book Milestone

March 3, 2017

Help Us Celebrate Our 200,000 Book Milestone

March 3, 2017

Honestly, I don’t even know how to start this post–I am utterly lacking in the word department, which is pretty ironic for a writer, isn’t it? 200,000. Books. Sold. Back…

100K Book Milestone: Celebrate With Us & Win

January 12, 2015

100K Book Milestone: Celebrate With Us & Win

January 12, 2015

Well, it happened. Our small, unusual trio of writing books have officially sold 100,000 copies, which is so freaking incredible. When we launched The Emotion Thesaurus in May of 2012…

Book Cover Copycats: Is It Flattery or Copyright Infringement?

June 16, 2014

Book Cover Copycats: Is It Flattery or Copyright Infringement?

June 16, 2014

A while back, a reader of our book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, sent me an interesting email. In it, she explained that during her Amazon…

The Path To 10K In Sales: Strategy, Luck & Mistakes

October 11, 2012

The Path To 10K In Sales: Strategy, Luck & Mistakes

October 11, 2012

I’ll admit my mind is blown knowing there are over 10,000 Emotion Thesaurus books out in the world. Becca and I are thrilled, and so appreciative to all the writers…