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It’s too hot to think. It’s too hot to do anything except stare vacantly at my laptop for a while. dorareads.co.uk/2026/07/NCItsT…

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#MondayBlogs In-Between Moments: What Two Small Coffee Cups Taught Me About the Meaning of Life Even before I opened the package I knew it contained something special. Something chosen for me with care by a friend known for thoughtful gifting. gumonmyshoe.com/2026/07/in-bet…

#MondayBlogs 💥 Author Visibility: Why Book Marketing Has No Easy Button (And 5 Ways to Make It Simpler) | @BadRedheadMedia geni.us/NoEasyButton Readers can’t read, recommend, or buy books they don’t know exist...my top five super easy tips that work for anyone. This is the start of a free short series, the Author Visibility Series. Please subscribe to receive all future parts. 🌻 Not an author? Concepts still apply. Sorry, but an easy book marketing button doesn’t exist. Bummer, I know. Tsk. No single tactic, strategy, tool, or viral moment will create lasting book sales. Not social media. Not ads. Not one launch. Not Substack. Not AI. Not a perfectly optimized Amazon page. Not reviews. Not 10K subscribers. Not awards. Each works together to form your entire author platform. And let’s be honest: for most books, the reality goal isn’t millions of sales (I mean, it would be fantastic, but let’s be realistic). It’s visibility, momentum, and selling copies over time because the work keeps showing up, even when the results have you reaching for a cookie. The real problem isn’t that writers aren’t trying hard enough; it’s that we’ve been taught to expect one tactic to do all the work. Marketing works best when it’s strategic and cumulative... 💥 Gratitude to my exclusive advertising sponsor, the always-free @Booklinker, and the paid tool, @GeniusLink. I love both💥

#MondayBlogs 💥 Visibility Helps Readers Notice You. Trust Makes Them Buy | @BadRedheadMedia geni.us/VisibilityTrust Readers often see our work many times before they decide to trust us. Here's why... Most readers don’t buy the first time they see a book or author. In the last series article, we talked about visibility. Readers need to notice you before anything else can happen. Now let’s talk about trust. Noticing someone and trusting them are two very different things. Visibility introduces you. Trust is what turns that attention into a real reader relationship. And we, as humans, know this instinctively. 💥 Gratitude to my exclusive advertising sponsor, the always-free @Booklinker, and the paid tool, @GeniusLink. I love both💥 (affiliate link). Visibility helps readers notice us. Maybe they see our name pop up a few times online. Maybe they read one of our posts or heard someone recommend our book. At that point, they’re aware you exist. But awareness alone rarely leads to a sale. Trust usually develops more slowly. It forms when readers consistently see more of our work, recognize our voice, and begin to feel confident that what we write is worth their time. Visibility helps readers notice us. Trust helps them stay and continue the connection in the future. The cycle looks something like this: Visibility → trust → discoverability → readers → sales... Click to read the rest. Always free.

#MondayBlogs 🌞 How to Grow Your Newsletter Without Losing Your Creative Soul by @BadRedheadMedia ow.ly/ESTG50ZlHEi A kind, steady approach to building your audience while protecting your energy... Growing your newsletter, on Substack or elsewhere, can feel like standing at a crossroads: one path looks like relentless “growth hacking” in blinking neon lights, and the other, staying true to your voice, even when the algorithm and “do-this, do-that” posts whisper otherwise. A: Must it be one or the other? B: Can both be true? C: I’ve written a book, so why do I need to write a newsletter? D: All of the above? The truth sits somewhere in the middle, and that’s where our core values, goals, and reality hang out. What do you wish from others? What do you give? Focus there... Shout out to my sponsors, @Booklinker and @GeniusLink - love and use both daily. Click or see bio for the rest! Always free to read and subscribe.

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#MondayBlogs 𝐈𝐬 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥? 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬, 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 | @RachelintheOC / @BadRedheadMedia geni.us/WritersBlock 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬, 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 Recently, a lovely writer asked me for advice on overcoming writer’s block. In my experience, and it’s also well-documented, writer's block tends to be one of a few things: • lack of safety, • lack of focus/direction, • fear, • exhaustion/burnout • any combination of the above. Fortunately, that helped, as she got back to me to say she had started writing with the suggestions I gave her (more below). Here’s my longer answer. 💥 Shout-out to my exclusive advertising sponsor, the always-free @Booklinker (universal book links—so helpful!), and the paid tool, @GeniusLink. I love both💥 ⁉️ Let’s Redefine What’s Really Happening Writers talk about being blocked like it’s a diagnosis: something unexplainably mysterious that happens to us. But what if it’s a symptom of something else entirely? When I felt blocked, I was scared to keep going, too tired to care, or unsure about what came next. I didn’t feel safe. This may or may not be your experience. Writer’s block feels real because it is. But it’s not a creative failure. It’s a human one. Your brain and heart need rest, clarity, and safety before they can create. When I was working on my Broken series, I took a break for months. I said I was “stuck.” Truthfully, I was terrified of what I’d find if I kept writing. Eventually, I pushed through and published three books in a series about surviving childhood sexual abuse at age eleven. Not easy. The block wasn’t in my words; it was in my courage, in that intersection where fear and worry had overtaken rational thought. What will people think? Show me a writer who doesn’t feel that way at some point. 🚫 How to Know When It’s a Block (and When It’s Something Else) Not all silence is the same. Sometimes you’re creatively blocked, also known as being temporarily disconnected from your voice. Other times, it’s emotional fatigue, trauma resurfacing, or plain old burnout. Here’s how to tell the difference: • If you feel restless, but ideas still whisper underneath, that’s likely a fear block. Your creative mind wants to speak; fear is just turning down the volume. • If you feel nothing—flat, numb, disinterested in everything you usually love— that’s not writer’s block. That’s emotional or physical exhaustion. You need a break, my friend. • If the idea of writing makes you anxious or panicked, or anxiously panicked, the issue may not be creativity but safety. Your nervous system is protecting you from current stress or old wounds. Ask yourself: Do I feel safe right now? That will reveal a lot, and could be your way back into writing. • If your mind races with ideas but can’t settle, that’s distraction or overwhelm, not block. The fix is focus, not force. The key difference: a creative block frustrates you; burnout empties you. When you know which one you’re facing, you can treat it with the right medicine— compassion... Read more: geni.us/WritersBlock FREE to read and subscribe.

Today marks 26 years since Iwona Kaminska was last seen. Iwona was 20 years old when she went missing from #Wandsworth, #London on 13/07/2000. To help #findIwonaKaminska, please share this appeal and report any sightings to us. misspl.co/m1lK50ZkAmI

July 14 shines bright for every #NonBinary person — seen, valid, and glowing with power. 💛🤍💜🖤 #NonBinaryDay #PrideJewelry

Equal rights for women does not mean fewer rights for men. 🤷‍♀️ It’s not a pizza! 🍕 We ALL deserve to have equal rights. Are you with us in the fight for #equality? #ForAllWomenAndGirls

Self-compassion is something I struggle with — I am perpetually my own harshest critic. medium.com/the-orange-jou… #MondayBlogs

Summer swept in on a tinder-dry breeze, a sun-boiled drift-wind crept it’s way into every crevice medium.com/promptly-writt… #MondayBlogs

A plastic-blonde dream with rosy-cheeks, bouncing babies, and never a hair out of place, because there is no room in this decaying mould for those with real flesh, for dirt and sweat and tears, for broken hopes and real fears medium.com/the-brain-is-a… #MondayBlogs #Poetry