Monday Blogs

What is #MondayBlogs? Created by @RachelintheOC/@BadRedheadMedia, who wanted a way for writers/bloggers to grow our followings/visibility. Learn how to use this blog-sharing hashtag - see post badredheadmedia.com/2025/07/18/wha… 💥NO book promo, NO porn. Plz use a different hashtag.

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Last night I dreamt of you, after all these years, and you were lying in my arms... and it was like something out of a romance novel only better because, at last, you were mine. In the Thin Places (a memoir in poem) | by @DrAlexandriaSZ buff.ly/3OYJUFv #MondayBlogs

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There is a ghost who walks my garden each night, summer or winter, rain or snow, and this ghost causes quite the furor in the village. People raise their eyebrows when they see me... The Ghost Walk (a memoir in poem) | @DrAlexandriaSZ buff.ly/46kv6Jv #MondayBlogs

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

LIVE, with Author, Survivor, and Business Owner Rachel Thompson @RachelintheOC aka @BadRedheadMedia on the @BillyDees Podcast | via @GoodpodsHQ ow.ly/LHhH50TR2Cg #MondayBlogs

#MondayBlogs 📱How Technology Innovation Changed Everything | @WorkedForMeBook buff.ly/cdcsZYr Without doubt, technology has really changed the world since the 1980s. I am not so sure whether it has made us lazier or better. Perhaps a little of both...

🔵 NEW: How My Dad’s Simple Rules of Character and Respect buff.ly/k1V0zQz by @WorkedForMeBook by Jeff Burgess My father never preached character—he lived it. It took me years to understand what that really meant...

Looking to adopt a pet? Author Anne Montgomery (@amontgomery8) shares the adversity and triumph of a golden-eyed black cat who nobody wanted, and the love he brought into her family... sharonledwith.blogspot.com/2026/05/guest-… #animaladoption #animallovers #historicalfiction #MondayBlogs #IARTG

Do Traditional Publishers Market Your Book for You? Here’s the Truth | by @BadRedheadMedia geni.us/TradPublishers What publishers provide, what they don’t, and why authors still need their own marketing strategy. #MondayBlogs

He asked her to be his star, his muse, his inspiration; and at first she was flattered to fall into the orbit of his influence medium.com/promptly-writt… #MondayBlogs #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

🖋 Writing Links Round Up 5/11 #Mondayblogs #WritingLinks buff.ly/eQR1Jo8

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#MondayBlogs 🎥 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧 | @AndrewDKaufman geni.us/StayingHuman What a 19th-century marriage and a 21st-century jail classroom taught me about courage Lately, I’ve been writing and speaking about a theme that’s become one of the strongest threads in my work: the courage to stay human. Not the kind we celebrate in headlines or pin medals on. I’m talking about a quieter kind: The courage to stay open when the world says harden. To stay connected when everything pushes us to divide. To hold on to who we are, even when fear and judgment tempt us to let go. I’ve spent the past fifteen years learning about this kind of courage in two unlikely places. One is a jail classroom, where I’ve taught literature to incarcerated youth and adults: people reckoning with the lives they’ve led and the people they still hope to become. The other is the story of a 19th-century Russian woman most people have probably never heard of: Anna Dostoyevskaya... Read more: geni.us/StayingHuman cc: @bsgspeakers If this resonated with you, please read the full piece and follow me on Substack (free, no paywall) for more writing on courage, compassion, and what it means to stay human today.

Boudicca: The Warrior Queen Who Defied Rome | @CHillbergAuthor ow.ly/tK9k50YEksu When Boudicca protested this violation of her husband's will, she was publicly flogged, and her daughters were raped. #MondayBlogs

18 Incredibly Stupid Publishing Mistakes. #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity #MondayBlogs publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2012/10/

[CW: Refs. to - political violence, cancer, CSA/grooming, drugs, death inc. assisted suicide] #MondayBlogs

#MondayBlogs 🔵 Can We Still See the Good? | @AndrewDKaufman buff.ly/AmnCBED One of the hardest lessons I’m still learning is how to stay open when the truth turns out to be more painful—and more complicated—than we hoped. I didn’t learn that in a faculty workshop or from a book. I began learning it in a moment I didn’t expect: when one of my students spoke a truth I wasn’t ready for. Let me take you there. When the Story Breaks A few years ago, I was back on campus after finishing the latest session of Books Behind Bars, the class I created where my university students study Russian literature alongside incarcerated youth. We’d just wrapped up our final visit to the correctional center. The students were back in their usual classroom seats—jackets slung over chair backs, legal pads and laptops open, coffee cups cooling on desks. From past experience, I knew that the final debrief day was always emotionally charged, a time to make sense of what the experience had meant. We were winding down when one usually quiet student raised her hand. There was a tremor in her voice. “Professor Kaufman,” she said, “there’s something I need to share with the group.”... Read more: buff.ly/AmnCBED FREE to read & subscribe.

Artemisia I of Caria: The Naval Commander Who Dared to Battle Greece | @CHillbergAuthor ow.ly/xvtc50YEkrX The first major naval engagement in which Artemisia likely participated was the Battle of Artemisium in August 480 BCE. #MondayBlogs

Lessons for Reclaiming Your Life. A common misconception is that things will naturally improve once the physical separation occurs. In reality, research suggests that up to 90% of women experience post-separation abuse. #MondayBlogs lifechangeplans.com/3mjn